SPORT Summer Sport Summary
CRICKET The 2017 1st XI cricket side began the season with a number of games during January. The first was the annual match at the Willows cricket ground in North Canterbury against the Willows XI, which contains a number of College Old Boys. It was a competitive match and, while College was unable to chase down 260 for the win, Ben Dickie scored a very good 97. The team then travelled to Auckland for the annual Trans- Tasman tournament. Over the week, they had a drawn two-day match against Shore School, Sydney; a one-day loss to King’s College, Auckland; and an excellent two-day victory over Canberra Grammar. In this match, College got the final wicket with only a couple of overs left in the day. In the local competition, the 1st XI started the season with an excellent two-day win over St Andrew’s College and, with further wins over North-West and CBHS 2nd XI, the team was leading the competition. Unfortunately, the last two matches against Christchurch Boys’ High School 1st XI and Shirley Boys’ High School were affected by rain, which meant the team had to settle for second place in this term’s competition. In interschool competition, the team travelled to Dunedin to play Otago Boys’ High School. Riley Tempero took five wickets in the first innings and College was set 225 to win, but fell 18 runs short of their target. Asked to follow on in their
match against Wanganui Collegiate, College scored 334/9 to draw the match, with Kurtis Weeks scoring 83 and Harry Macdonald 92. Eleven other cricket sides competed for Christ’s College this season, with a number of outstanding individual performances, including Logan Stapylton-Smith (119no), Tom Macfarlane (103no), Jack Belcher (134no), Zach May (6 for 57), Tim Cross (6 for 16), Will Prentice (5 for 13), and Monty Rookes (145).
Christ’s College Canterbury
62
Made with FlippingBook HTML5