AK Marist v Wainui in women’s national club final - NZ

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Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:47:33 +1200
From: Vance <vance(at)vanf-graphics.co.nz>
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 AK Marist v Wainui in women’s national club final
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AK Marist v Wainui in women’s national club final
Sunday March 26th 2006 - 11:50am

Auckland Marist will play Wainui in the final of the New Zealand
Community Trust Women’s National Club Championships at Foundation
Park, Christchurch this afternoon.

In the semi finals played this morning the unbeaten Auckland
Marist team defeated Northcote 11-1 in five innings while Wainui
won their way through to the final with a 5-2 win over the defending
champions Te Aroha.

Auckland Marist were in ominous form with the bat in the semi
final as they scored two runs  in the first inning, one more
in the second, six in the third and two in the fifth. A star
with the bat for Auckland Marist was Michelle Kingi who picked
up three hits and two RBI’s from four at bats while Fiona Timu
had two hits and three RBI’s from four trips to the plate. 

Auckland Marist was always in control of the game as they out
hit Northcote 14 to five.

Along with doing the job with the bat Kingi was also strong on
the mound for Auckland Marist she faced 17 batters giving up
just five hits and one walk while taking three strikeouts. 

For Northcote their only run came in the fourth inning when Katie
Hetherington scored on a hit by Aroha Haretuku but it wasn’t
enough to get them into the game. On the mound for Northcote
was Victoria Reyland.

The other semi final between Wainui and Te Aroha went right down
to the wire with the scores all locked up at 2-2 going into the
seventh inning. 

Batting in the top of the final inning and with two down Wainui
brought the game alive first with Lici Hina picking up a single
followed by a triple to Api Stone O’Kane to score one run and
then an in the park home run by Aimee Gilbert to score two more
runs to give her side a three run advantage going into the bottom
of the inning.

Te Aroha battled hard in the bottom of the inning to pull back
the deficit getting one runner on base but they couldn’t turn
the game around.

On the mound for Wainui was Trish Hina while Jessica Hau pitched
the game for Te Aroha.

Going into the 3pm final Auckland Marist could hold the advantage
they are unbeaten in the tournament and when the two finalists
met in round robin play Auckland Marist came out on top 3-2.



By SNZ Media Liaison: Kelly Mitchell
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