Riccarton in strong position

Press, 10 February 1986, Page 25

Riccarton in strong position

Upper Riccarton and Woolston WMC are in strong positions while Vistalite Sumner and Christchurch WMC are well placed after the first day of the ninth round in the Senior Suburban Cricket Competition on Saturday.

At Heathcote, Upper Riccarton was sent into bat and used the maximum 55 overs to score 196 losing seven wickets.

Nicky Dierck batted well to score 47 while Andrew Kennedy, a Suburban under-23 representative, had more than his share of luck in reaching 84. Darryl Moody was the best of the Heathcote bowlers gaining five wickets. In reply Heathcote's wickets fell quickly from the start, the side being dismissed for 60 runs. Dierck, with one of his best bowling efforts spearheaded the attack, with six wickets to his credit

Heathcote then began its second innings and at stumps had lost an early wicket with only five runs on the board.

Close by at St Leonard’s Square, Vistalite Sumner elected to bat winning the toss.

It compiled 249 and declared after 52 overs with six batsmen scoring over 20 runs each.

Southern Districts got off to a flying start with a 66-run opening partnership before two quick wickets fell. Sumner bowled a brisk 42 overs in two hours to see Districts at stumps six down for 171.

On the other side of town, Bowleys Hornby and Woolston WMC met, with Woolston being asked to bat. At eight down for 206 at afternoon tea, Woolston declared with Bruce Harris topscoring on 51. Ken Taylor was undefeated on 47 and the youthful Murray Sands scored 29 Including six boundaries. Fourteen overs remain in

Hornby’s first innings and it trails by 104 runs with only three wickets in hand. Bottom order Christchurch WMC played fourth place Hoon Hay at Bradford Park. On an excellent batting wicket, Christchurch batted first and declared after 50 overs at 214 for eight, one of its best scores this season. Hard hitting Rod Withers, had the highest individual score for Christchurch with 46. Murray Emerson for Hoon Hay impressed with 54 and was the main contributor to Hoon Hay’s total of 103 from 35 overs. Ron Provan, for Christchurch, bowled 18 overs continuously to snatch four wickets. The senior representative team challenged North Canterbury at Hoon Hay Park for the Minors Association Cup and consequently senior teams can return replacement players to their teams next week. There were four centuries scored and three hat-tricks taken in lower-grade games. The two most impressive performances of the day came from Kevin Calder of the POSB fourth B team playing New Brighton. Calder retired on 136 and then, when bowling, took five wickets for 10 runs including a hat-trick. Fred Dawson, of Bumside WU, playing Aranui in the third C grade, also took five wickets at the cost of 19 runs and, when batting, was undefeated, scoring 120 not out. Results.— Senior A Upper Riccarton 196/7 (N. Dierck 47, A. Kennedy 84; D. Moody 5/45 met Heathcote 60 (N. Dierck 6/25; T. Caldwell 3/26) and 5/1.

Umpires: K. G. Haworth; G. W. Rogerson. Vistalite Sumner 249/7 dec. (O. Southen 47, R. Campbell 45, T. McKendry 32 n. 0.; M. White 3/59) met Southern

Districts 171/6 (A. Laurent 79, S. Weir 48). Umpire: V. F. Payne. Woolston WMC 206/8 (B. Harris 57; K. Taylor 47 n. 0.; P. Wallace 3/31) met Bowleys Hornby 102/7. Umpire: N. G. Clark. Christchurch WMC 214/8 dec. (A., Knowles 36, R. Smythe 41, R. Withers 46; M. Emerson 3/54), met Hoon Hay 103/6 (M. Emerson 54, R. Provan 4/44). Umpire: D. S. Gray. Senior B Bowleys Homby 184 met Merivale Papanui 112/5 (J. Yates 44 n. 0.). Vistalite Sumner 106 (D. Biscoe 7/52, and 44/2) met New Brighton 127/4 (B. Mexted 61). Harewood 206/5 (K. Williams 100 n. 0.) met Southern Districts 102/7. Second Grade Harewood 150 (J. Wigney 50; K. French 8/44, and 5/1) met Woolston WMC 106. New Brighton 154 met Merivale Papanui 108/5. Southern Districts 171 (A. White 87; R. Golf 6/35) met Richmond WMC 112/4. Third A Christchurch WMC 145/7 beat Heathcote 144/8. Bowleys Hornby 131/5 (B. Furness 56 n. 0., beat Woolston WMC 76 and 12/0. Hoon Hay 183/7 (J. Tappenden 70 n. 0.) beat Vistalite Sumner 155/7 (S. Grimmek 72; G. Hill 5/31). Upper Riccarton 151/6 (M. McNaughton 105) beat Southern Districts 148/9. Third B Harewood 151/8 (G. Langford 5/42) beat Papanui WMC 130 (A. Sheed 7/27). BWU 186/8 (B. Cummings 61) beat New Brighton 145 (M. Shardlow 5/29). Halswell 199/9 dec. (W. Burt 53; B. Clark 5/63) and 0/ 0 dec. beat Merivale Papanui 69 and 107 outright. POSB 154/5 (R. McKenzie 57, I. Brook 50) beat ANZ 150/6 (V. Sullivan 54). Third C Templeton 153/4 beat Add-

ington 123/8 (P. Woolhouse 6/31). BWU 205/5 (N. Dawson 120 n. 0.) beat Aranui 150/9 (N. Dawson 5/19). Merivale Papanui 162 (D. Schwaiger 54) beat Belfast 117/9. SAS 171 (J. Hadwin 62) beat New Brighton 113. Riccarton WMC 97/7 beat NBRFC 92 (S. Andrews 5/34). Third D Bowleys Hornby 117 (M. Sanson 54 n. 0.) beat Belfast 115 (M. Print 7/31). H.R.L.F.C. 165 beat Harewood 83 (S. Wells 7/45). Merivale Papanui 91 beat Hoon Hay 90. Vistalite Sumner 109/8 beat New Brighton 16 (A- Scott 6/ 4) and 61 (B. Southen 7/13) outright Prebbleton 96/5 beat Lyttelton 87.

Fourth A Heathcote 122/9 beat Halswell 111 (L. Somerville-Smith 5/39). Merivale Papanui 242/5 (T. Smith 96, P. Bellam 75) beat Waimak SM 134. Papanui WMC 172/7 dec. beat New Brighton 138/7. SAS 133 (J. Thompson 5/ 39) beat United 127. Bowleys Hornby 253/7 (C. Redpath 69 n. 0.) beat Riccarton WMC 177. Fourth B Bowleys Hornby 134 and

50/6 dec. beat Richmond WMC 91 (R. Hallet 6/19) and 86/9 on first innings. Woolston WMC 108/2 (B. Whittaker 65 n. 0.) beat Merivale Papanui 77 and 88 (R. Robson 6/26). POSB 260/9 dec. (K. Calder 136 retired) beat New Brighton 124 (K. Calder 5/10). Christchurch WMC 67/9 dec. (S. Payne-Morton 5/10), and 59/9 (P. Carroll 5/31) beat Riccarton WMC 51 (C. Chuckle 6/28) and 90/7 dec. on first innings. Fourth C Grosvenor 137/6 (D. Stuthridge 93) beat Woolston WMC 104. Hoon Hay 108/9 beat ABC 102. Bowleys Hornby 152/8 dec. (R. Robertson 67) beat Richmond WMC 142 (R. Robertson 7/24). New Brighton 84/4 beat LRLFC 79 (D. Bodger 5/15). Fourth D Heathcote 159/6 beat Southern Districts 107 (J. Tapiata 5/37). Woolston WMC 117 beat Bowleys Hornby 84. Merivale Papanui 88 (N. Burrell 52; F. Ratahi 6/23) and 16/1 beat New Brighton 61 (M. Barker 5/19) and 39 outright.

Riccarton WMC 161 beat CCF 92.