Top teams
The Auckland women and the Bay of Plenty men are the seeded favourites for the threeday national inter-district teams’ event which begins on Thursday. Bay of Plenty looks very strong indeed in the men’s section with the likes of Stephen Cunningham, Danny McQueen, Robert Wyatt and Paul Steel, but the world No. 1, Susan Devoy, turning out for Waikato, and her team-mates will be trying to upset the Auckland applecart in the women’s event.
The seedings are:— Men: Bay of Plenty 1,
Auckland 2, Canterbury 3, Wellington 4, Southern 5, Midlands 6, Central Districts 7, Waikato 8, Hawke’s Bay-Gisborne 9, Northland 10.
Women: Auckland 1, Waikato 2, Canterbury 3, Central 4, Northland 5, Southern 6, Bay of Plenty 7, Hawke’s Bay-Gisborne 8, Wellington 9, Midlands 10.
The Auckland men’s manager and No. 6 is the remarkable Neven Barbour, playing his twenty-
fifth consecutive national championships. Barbour won two national titles and had it not been for an injured leg might have completed a hat-trick here in 1975. Palmerston North last year was the first time in 17 years he had failed to make the quarter-finals.
The .Canterbury teams are:— Men: Rod Hayes, Paul Viggers, Michael Penman, Michael Allred, Craig Hibbert, Tristan Franklin. Women: Justine Marriott, Philippa Beams, Freda Walker, Carolyn Oakley, Sarah Cook, Leonie Ward.
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