Canterbury WIN South Island GC Team Event

A great two days of croquet was played at Waireka Croquet Club, Ashburton on 5 and 6 April. This was attended by 6 of the 7 Associations in the South Island – Marlborough, Nelson, Canterbury, South Canterbury, Otago and Southland. Each team had 4 players – Premier, Senior, Intermediate and Primary 

On Saturday the teams were paired for the doubles with each Association playing each other. Canterbury made a flying start winning all their first round games and by the end of the day were celebrating 9 wins from 10 games. 

Sunday was the day all players were scheduled to play 5 singles each.  The first and second rounds for Canterbury players saw mixed results, however, with good results in the third round Canterbury went out to a 4 point lead and retained this over the next two rounds to finish on 21 wins and 41 net hoops edging out Otago on 17 wins and 6 net hoops   Well done to the team of Josh Winter (Cashmere), Mike Bunce (St Martins) Derek Kinley (Cashmere) and Ayelen Tayagui (St James).

Full results are at https://croquetscores.com/2025/gc/si-teams-1