By TBHS | Posted: Thursday February 23, 2017
Tennis came to the party and stopped the clean sweep in the summer interschool between Timaru Boys’ High School and Otago Boys’ held in Timaru.
Timaru had a comprehensive victory against a weakened Otago Boys’ team, beating them by twelve games to nil in both singles and doubles. Timaru were themselves weakened with number one player James Watt out with a broken wrist. Josh Cameron stepped up to the number one spot with a 6-0, 6-0 victory in the singles. Aidan Watt and Shaun Reith also performed well in their first school Exchange.
The Golfers struggled against some quality opposition losing 4-0. William Warahi the standout, especially with a 2 on the par four opening hole at Highfield Golf Course.
The Touch team found the opposition too hot to handle with Otago taking a clean sweep winning three games to nil with Otago winning 5-1, 4-0 and 9-2 in the final game. Joel Hill and Jimmy Robertson ran the team well on attack while Ryan Greenslade was another to stand out.
The 1st XI Cricket team found the going tough against Otago Boys’ but produced a bit more stubbornness than teams in the last couple of years. Otago batted first in the 50 over game, scoring 314 for 9, with the runs shared amongst the top order. Charlie Martin was expensive but took some crucial wickets with 4-62 while Shaun Rooney took 2-54.
Timaru Boys’ started brightly with Otago being quite loose with their bowling conceding a number of extras. They eventually tightened up with wickets falling at regular intervals. TBHS fought their way through to 135 in the 40th over. Newcomer to the team Hayden McNulty scored 40 not out with Charlie Martin completing a good match with 20 runs to go with his 4 wickets. William Sharp also contributed with twenty runs..
The TBHS Colts Cricket team also fought well but ultimately come up short against their Otago opposites. Otago batted first scoring 199 for 3. Jacob Cumming top scored with 104 not out. This is a familiar name to Timaru Boys as his dad Craig was a prolific cricketer in his time at Timaru Boys and beyond. Timaru responded with 124 for 7. Hugh Cameron hit the ball for a well compiled 31 and Alex Doyle contributed with a good knock of 25.
A win to Otago Boys by 4-1.
