SportRams game popularBASKETBALL: The Canter-bury Rams are on track for a second straight sell-out when they play the Otago Nuggets at Cowles Stadium on Saturday night. Just over 200 tickets re-main for the game, where the Rams will be looking for their first win of the season, after los-ing to the Nelson Giants 76-77 last weekend.

Rally successMOTORSPORT: Matt and Ni-cole Summerfield finished sec-ond at the Rally of Whangarei last weekend. The Christchurch brother and sister team had a fast, consistent drive at the rally, which was held in dry and dusty conditions.

Close winMOTORSPORT: Christchurch driver Hamish Anderson won the NZ3 classification at the Rally of Whangarei, but only after surviving a drama with a broken electrical wire. Towards the end of the second day of the rally, he found that a wire had broken off, and the only way to avoid exclusion from the race was for his co-driver Sarah Brennan to hold it together while he got the car over the finish line. Anderson said the Northland roads were the best he had ever raced on.

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AN OUTSTANDING team effort saw East Christchurch-Shirley win the National Club Cricket Champion-ships in Auckland last weekend.

The win was their second in four years, and came after they beat Wel-lington’s Eastern Suburbs by two wickets in the final.

After dismissing Eastern Suburbs for 135, East Christchurch-Shirley found themselves in trouble at 34 for five, when Ben Hanham joined opener Tim Hampton-Matehe at the crease.

“We just sort of thought that if we

can get a bit of a partnership togeth-er, we can get closer and closer,” said Hanham.

Hampton-Matehe was dismissed ten overs later, with the score at 86, leaving Hanham to guide the team home.

“The key was we didn’t lose wickets in clumps – there were always part-nerships starting with whoever came in,” said Hanham.

They lost three more wickets be-fore Hanham hitting the winning runs, finishing 41 not out of 72 balls.

Hanham said the tournament was a really good experience, and he was pleased he could contribute at the

time he did.“It helped a lot having a few old

hands, letting you know what to ex-pect on and off the field,” he said.

New Zealand under 19 internation-al Leo Carter said the tournament was a tough slog.

“Six days (in a row) is tough, one day longer than a test match, and the intensity of playing a new game each day is hard, but I think we coped very well,” he said.

East Christchurch-Shirley went into Saturday’s last round robin game, coincidentally against Eastern Sub-urbs, thinking they needed a win in order to make the final.

They were never in the match, los-ing by 127 runs, and thought they had missed their chance.

Then they learnt there had been an error with the net run rate calculations, and they had made it af-ter all.

The team’s captain, Tim Papps, had to leave on Saturday night to attend a family wedding in Fiji.

Carter said Papps, who has retired now that the season has ended, was a club legend.

“He’s our captain, and he’s been so inspirational for us. He’s been a great man for the club so it was great to get that win for him,” he said.

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