The Catholic connection showed plenty of composure to win all the men’s cricket one-day finals on Saturday.

Celtic took out the second grade A competition while Roncalli College won the B competition and also the fourth grade title.

Roncalli, however, could not keep the momentum going yesterday as their first XI dipped out in the regional Gillette Cup final going down to Timaru Boys’ High School at the Rectory.

Celtic’s victory in the second grade A competition came after posting a healthy 195 in their 40 overs with opener Mike de Joux top scoring with 61.

De Joux was in good touch scoring four fours in a row in his innings which also included a six, while his younger brother Neil chimed in with a very handy 43.

The target, however, proved too tough for the chasing Timaru side, which finished 15 runs short when they ran out of overs.

Several Timaru batsmen got starts and Caleb Rosanowski was unbeaten on 40 at the end after Tim Mackle scored 32 and three others made it into the 20s.

Wily veteran Ants de Joux was the chief destroyer taking four for 40 off his eight overs.

Roncalli romped home in the second grade B final against Timaru.

Put in to bat, Timaru limped to 64 in 28.1 overs with only opener Ellis Ibadulla showing any resistance with 21 while Roncalli held some very good catches and also grabbed a run out.

Ibadulla was also the only batsman to make double figures while Nick O’Brien, Pat Lees and Hamish Race took three wickets each.

O’Brien returned the impressive figures of three for six off his 6.1 overs, which included two maidens while Lees was only slightly more expensive going for 10 off his seven, including three maidens.

Roncalli then cruised to victory just one wicket down with opener Tristian Cooper unbeaten on 29, while Ben Crawford was the only man out for 21, dismissed by veteran Colin Cameron.

Michael Lees then joined Crawford to see Roncalli to a deserved victory in the 17th over.

Timaru, who were the top side going into the final, will be sick of the sight of Celtic teams after being beaten in the Twenty20 final by Celtic’s other side.

In the fourth grade, Roncalli proved too good for Geraldine in a low-scoring final at Geraldine.

The hosts batted first but were rolled for 43 in just 19 overs.

Chief destroyer was second change bowler Sam McCleary who took a five-wicket bag.

Roncalli then lost five wickets in the chase but 14 from Sam Nolan was enough to see his side home.

Primary A

The South Canterbury Primary A team lost to Dunedin on Sunday 4th March.

South Canterbury bowled first and again the bowlers did a fantastic job dismissing Dunedin Metro for 121. Off spinners Matt Cochrane-Bennett with 3/10 and Ben Thomson with 2/18 were the best bowlers.

The batting again let them down being bowled out for 70 with Tim Hepburn 11, Cullen Grace 14 and Ben Thomson 10 all getting starts but unable to go on to get a big score.

South Canterbury are showing alot of promise for such a young side with six players only YR 7 and once the batting kicks into life should prove a real handful for opposition teams.

Primary YR 5 & 6

South Canty YR 5&6 had a good win over Dunedin Metro.

After being put in to bat South Canterbury made 161 for 9 off there 35 overs. Ben Davenport 10, Harrison Darling 19, Cormack Tarrant 10 and Sam Richards 16no made sure South Canterbury’s total was a demanding one.

Very good bowling from Harrison Darling 2/8 and Jack Thomson 4/21 made sure Dunedin Metro failed in their chase.

South Canterbury’s next game is v CHCH Metro on March 18th in Timaru.

Mark Parker

The Mark Parker Memorial game against an Otago Club Selection will be played at Aorangi Oval on Sunday March 4th.

Players involved include past and present TBHS students who have been recipients of the Winchester Scholarship with Bill Walsh, Blair Brown and Josh Dick last year’s recipient all taking part.

James Parker from Winchester College will also be playing.

The scholarship allows an emerging Timaru Boys’ High School cricketer the opportunity to spend six months in England playing for Winchester College in England.

The scholarship was set-up after the 27-year-old Parker died in the Bali bombings in 2002.

The following team has been selected to play.

Start 11am.

Bill Walsh
Josh Dick
Glen Drake
Willie Wright
Tahir Afridi
James Parker (from Winchester College)
Zane Sanders
Craig Hinton
Nathan McNicol
Blair Brown
Jeremy Liddy
Dillon Lees

South Canterbury Primary A to play Dunedin Metro on Sunday March 4^th

Players to assemble by 10.15am at Logan Park, Dunedin.

Practise Thursday 6pm at Blanchard Centre.  Anyone unavailable contact Ants de Joux 0272294336

Shaun Rooney (capt)
Angus Duffield
Tim Hepburn
Cullen Grace
Jayden Henderson
William Sharp
Ben Thomson
Matt Cochrane-Bennett
James Arscott
Ben Aicken
Ted Grigg
Charlie Martin

South Canterbury Development to play Dunedin Metro on Sunday March 4th

Players to assemble by 10.15am at Logan Park, Dunedin. Anyone unavailable contact Shane Gilkison on 021 0231 3118

Stuart Williams
Todd Phillips
Conor Anderson
Cameron Lyon
Callum Crawford
Daniel Goodwin
Ed Heenan
Ben Stayt
Hamish Booth
Isaac Kinney
Eamon Bolton
Hamish Stowell

South Canterbury Year 5&6 to play Dunedin Metro on Sunday March 4th

Players to assemble by 10.15am at Logan Park, Dunedin

Practise Wednesday 6pm at Blanchard Centre

Anyone unavailable contact Ants de Joux 0272294336

Ben Davenport (capt)
Ryan Lewthwaite
Luka Foy
Harrison Darling
William Johnson
Cougan Brown
Will Davenport
Sam Richards
Cormack Tarrant
James Martin
Jack Thomson
George Coupland

The South Canty Primary A XI were beaten by Otago Country by 66 runs.

Otago Country batted first and were bowled out for 138 which was a good effort by the South Canterburyy bowlers with Gabrial Evans taking 3-17,  Ben Aicken 2-22 and Jayden Henderson 3-6. A better fielding display would have kept the score down even further but 4 catches were grassed and two run outs missed.

In reply Sth Canty were left rueing some poor running between the wicket giving up three easy run outs and leaving them 25 for 5 from which they never recovered, being bowled out for 72. Gabrial Evans was the only batsmen to make double figures with 18.

A much better display will be needed this Sunday when they take on Dunedin Metro in Dunedin.

South Canterbury Year 5 & 6 started the new season with a resounding win over Otago Country. South Canterbury won the toss and batted first scoring 130 for 9  from their 35 overs.

Ryan Lewthwaite 19 and Luka Foy 11 opened with a 40 run partnership which was followed by Ben Davenport 10 and George Coupland 21 not out.

In reply Otago Country never got going thanks to excellent team fielding with 5 run outs, especially those by Sam Richards and Ryan Lewthwaite with direct hits.

James Martin bowled 7 overs 3-20, Mcgregor Isbister 4 overs 1-7 and Nick Goodwin 1-10.

A great start to the new season for this team who now take on Dunedin Metro this Sunday in Dunedin.

Game_Start_Date: 26-Feb-2012

Venue: Alexandra

South_Canterbury_Cricket_Team: Yr 5 & 6

Opposition: Otago Country

Toss_Winner: SC

Toss_Decision: Bat First

SC_Batting_1st_Innings: 130 / 9

SC_Overs_Faced_1st_Innings: 35

Opposition_Batting_1st_Innings: 85 / 10

Opposition_Overs_Faced_1st_Innings: 30

Result: Win to South Canterbury

South Canterbury fell to a 37-run loss to Otago Country in their Hawke Cup elimination cricket match at Aorangi Oval yesterday.

South Canterbury v Otago Country - Hawke Cup - Aorangi Oval Day 1

Needing an outright victory for a mathematical chance at a cup challenge, South Canterbury were chasing the game from the moment Otago Country posted 275 after being asked to bat following a three-hour delay to dry the field on day one.

Otago Country’s top score was 44, but they had few failures with the bat.

South Canterbury’s Kevin Teahen wrapped up the tail to end with four for 26.

The batsmen failed to respond and after being fortunate to avoid the follow-on, South Canterbury declared their first innings at 185 for nine, 30 minutes before lunch, electing to give their bowlers a chance to knock the visitors over cheaply, and chase a target.

They restricted Otago Country to 128 all out, leaving themselves 219 to win from 48 overs, but none of the South Canterbury top-order could produce the big score required.

South Canterbury got themselves back into the game after a tactical change after lunch yesterday.

They took a punt on the spin of Sam Carlaw and Bill Walsh and it paid dividends, as Otago Country lost 10 wickets for 81 runs.

Walsh took five for 51 from 20 overs, while Carlaw was just as dangerous at the other end, claiming four for 34 from 13.1 overs.

South Canterbury lost Craig Davies (1) on the fourth ball of the run chase thanks to Otago Country captain Brendan Domigan, who had claimed five wickets in the first innings.

Captain Richie Preston (27) tried to keep the run-rate climbing, as an out-of-sorts Bill Walsh (28) looked to find his feet against a bowling attack which got the ball to seam and swing all match.

Glenn Matthews made a brisk 38 to go with his run-a-ball 65 in the first innings, his best ever score for South Canterbury, but when he departed, with the score at 122 for six, the chase became too much. Mark Tutton made 45 not out to get some respectability in the final losing margin.

Eric Standfield bowled his medium pace uninterrupted in the South Canterbury second innings, finishing with four for 80 from 22.4 overs, while Cameron Rutherford snared four for 51 from 13 overs as South Canterbury were dismissed for 181 with three overs remaining.

Otago Country players wait their turn to bat

South Canterbury coach Bruce Carlaw said Otago Country, who grabbed their first win of the season, had been the toughest team they had faced.

He said his team failed to break the Otago Country batting partnerships on day one and then failed to build any of their own with the bat.

“Our inability to get them out in the first innings [cost us]; we were bowling both sides of the wicket.

“We didn’t seemed focused. I was a wee bit disappointed with how we went into the match, it didn’t seem right to me, but they batted very well, and were quite impressive.

“What is rather evident is that these [South Canterbury] guys aren’t used to facing a ball that is moving … They’re not used to accurate bowling, they really struggle with that.

“There are some talented cricketers here, but they are not being pushed at club level and they are struggling here because the step up is too great.”

Carlaw also had one eye on the future.

“We can compete with these sides with our bowling and our fielding and we can compete with our lower-order batting.

“It is our top-order batting which needs addressing.

“We need batsmen who can score runs. Where we can get them from? I don’t know,” Carlaw said.

“I think we need three batsmen who can score runs for us and at the moment we just aren’t able to do it.”

He said he was rapt with the fight shown by the spinners and said “that got us back into the game”.

Southland have gained the Hawke Cup challenge from the southern zone.

Scoreboard

The bowlers

Craig Hinton

Dan Laming

Tahir Afridi

The fielders

Note outfielders walking in and slips with hands on knees at delivery

James Laming top-scored for Celtic with 52

Celtic and Timaru had comprehensive wins, while Waimate made the most of winning a crucial toss to claim maximum points in the senior one-day cricket competition on Saturday.

Waimate beat Roncalli College by eight wickets after winning the toss and choosing to field when conditions suited them most.

Moving the Timaru v Star match to an artificial pitch could not help the Star batsmen, as they were skittled for 78 in pursuit of 213.

Celtic showed their depth as a club, as their fill-ins defeated a near full-strength Temuka by 112 runs at Temuka Oval.

Roncalli’s fragile batting lineup faced the worst of the conditions against an in-form Waimate opening bowling combination of Matthew Sew Hoy and Alan Reid.

The pitch was unpredictable in its bounce, as it struggled to deal with the rain from the day before.

Sew Hoy, fresh from six wickets against Star in the last game, was at his best again on the Ashbury Park 7 pitch.

He claimed Roncalli’s top-four batsmen, with only Ryan de Joux putting-up any resistance with 25.

A 44-run eighth-wicket stand between former captain Tom Pavletich (25) and current captain Barry Ward (23) got Roncalli into three figures, as the pitch continued to dry.

Daniel Dorgan added 16 with some powerful hitting to get the score through to 124 all out in the 43rd over.

Sew Hoy claimed four for 15.

Waimate decided to play aggressively on an unpredictable pitch.

Nathan Sew Hoy, who took four catches with the gloves, produced the innings required. His run-a-ball 64 not out ensured the run-chase was finished inside 20 overs.

Timaru’s Indian pace bowler, Abishek Baadkar, took five for 35 to help dismiss Star for 78 on Ashbury Park 3.

Earlier, Timaru had amassed 213 all out, thanks to Zane Sanders (53), Gerald Piddock (29) batting with a fractured finger, and 27 not out from Jeremy Smallridge, which included his first senior six.

The day would get better for him, as he added a senior wicket during Star’s capitulation.

Timaru won by 135 runs, despite four for 41 from Star’s Todd Debney and some late-order hitting from stand-in captain Jeremy Lane (19).

Celtic’s unbeaten run in senior one-day cricket was not troubled by Temuka, who fell well short with the bat.

Former South Canterbury representative James Laming made 52, while injured South Canterbury batsmen Jeremy Liddy hobbled his way to 35 as Celtic were dismissed for 206.

The spin of Nick Horsley was the highlight for Temuka, the former Northern Districts batsmen taking four for 15.

Only 29 from David Fisher halted the procession of Temuka wickets.

Scoresheets

The squads to play in the match between South Canterbury and Otago Country are as follows;

South Canterbury:

South Canterbury squad to face Otago Country at Aorangi Oval: Richie Preston (c), Craig Davies, Bill Walsh, Dhananjaya Murari, Dan Laming, Glenn Matthews, Willie Wright (wk), Mark Tutton, Tahir Afridi, Sam Carlaw, Kevin Teahen, Craig Hinton, Jeremy Liddy (subject to fitness test).

Otago Country:

Brendan Domigan, James Pyle, Fraser Wilson, Scott Paulin, Cameron Rutherford, Ben Purvis, Sean Moran, Jarod Andrew, Kieran Parker, Sean Windle, Eric Stanfield, Michael Collins

The match is scheduled to start at 10.30am each day at Aorangi Oval

MAN IN CLOSE: South Canterbury's Mark Tutton (right) took three catches at silly mid-on in the first innings.

The South Canterbury cricket team secured a four-wicket outright win in its Hawke Cup match against Mid Canterbury yesterday, but questions still remain over the batting.

Both teams struggled to adjust to a greener than usual Aorangi Oval pitch and runs proved hard to come by, with only three half-centuries all match.

An unbeaten 54 from South Canterbury captain Richie Preston steered the home team to victory, in pursuit of 96.

Again it was the bowlers who produced the big moments.

English import Tahir Afridi took five for 16 in the first innings, while Glenn Matthews took four.

Mid Canterbury staggered through to 120 all out, thanks to Tom Meyrick’s unbeaten 53 which got them out of trouble at 35 for eight.

South Canterbury’s reply was anchored by Craig Davies’ 67.

His partnership of 66 with Mark Tutton (36) was described by assistant coach Robin Beeby as a pivotal point in the match.

South Canterbury managed a lead of 55 in the first innings despite Beaven Ravenscroft’s seven for 57 for the visitors.

After an hour’s delay at the start day two yesterday, South Canterbury were able to dismiss Mid Canterbury for 150.

The effort was thanks to Matthews four for 45 and Afridi’s three for 68.

The run chase was a nervy one.

Wickets fell regularly, but the always free-flowing Preston tried to maintain his natural game.

Bill Walsh (zero and three) and former captain Dan Laming (five and zero), failed in both innings.

Tutton (12) eventually held up an end long enough for South Canterbury to get in front of the game.

Preston’s 54 came off 81 balls with seven fours.

Beeby said the batting remained a concern.

“There is still work to be done on the batting, obviously, but it is across the board – there are low scores in all of this Hawke Cup elimination group.

“I don’t know if it’s a mindset, but it’s getting the adjustments done for the individuals for the batting conditions.”

Beeby said that despite the issues with some of the top order, Tutton had impressed him. “I don’t think there will be much of a change.

“That partnership in the first innings [between Davies and Tutton] was really a match-winning one.

“Even Tutton, in the second innings showed the same kind of application, even though he didn’t score high, he was there for quite a while,” Beeby said.

Sam Carlaw was ill on the second day and took no part in the action.

Beeby hoped Carlaw would be available for selection for the match against Otago Country this weekend.

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