Games in the Heats of Girls Eight?

by Rowing-World on 28 Mar 2006 Defending champions, Rangi Ruru continued their dominance of the U-18 Girls Eight, winning their heat and setting the fastest time. St Margarets who dominated the GU18 Fours yesterday finished third in their heat.

Surprise packet was the rise of Wanganui Collegiate, in winning the first heat of the event, and pushing the highly fancied St Margaret’s crew back into third place. They will have to place in the top three of their repechage to qualify for the A Final of the event on Saturday afternoon.

Following Rangi Ruru home in the second heat was the North Island Champions, Westlake Girls, who were almost three lengths adrift of the 2005 Gold medallists in this event.

The times comparison between the two winning crews shows that less than half a second covered Rangi Ruru and Wanganui Collegiate.

Interestingly Wanganui did not compete at the North island Championships two weeks ago, and the South Island Secondary Schools at Lake Ruataniwha where blown out in the same weekend. So for both schools it was something of an arm-wrestle and will make for a fascinating final on Saturday.

The St Margarets result was surprising after they had won both heats of their U18 Four heats on Monday – yet the combined crew could only manage third today. Raising the question as to whether there is a bigger gameplan in place geared to getting some more racing, given that conditions are likely to remain fine for the rest of the week, and it would appear that there will be ample time for rest before the main event on Saturday afternoon.


Results forGIRLS U18 8+
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Heat 1 Results
Progression. First to Final. Rest to Repechage.

	Club	Finish	1500	1000	500	Crew
1st	WANGANUI COLLEGIATE SCHOOL 1	7:06:01	-	-	-	Charlotte Burson Georgina Baker Georgia Cottrell Sophie Warnock Paparangi Hipango Harriett Austin Rebecca Hughes Kate Austin Cox Sarah Lyons
2nd	NELSON COLLEGE FOR GIRLS 1	7:18:03	-	-	-	Hannah Rutherford Ashley Fenwick Frances Scott Kirsty Butler Brittany Fenwick Shannon Bane Sian Jones-White Natalie Matheson Cox Jenny Mathews
3rd	ST MARGARETS COLLEGE 1	7:20:29	-	-	-	Dayna Aubrey Olivia Faull Isla McNeice Tessa Page Jessica Loe Josie Springford Courtney Paterson Rosa Thomas Cox Emma Fechney
4th	SACRED HEART GIRLS COLLEGE 1	7:36:71	-	-	-	Chelsea Morrison Genevieve Crawford Catherine Mills Kate Reymer Ashleigh Finlay Priscilla McIntosh Tessa Murphy Catherine Arbuckle Cox Amanda Coombe
5th	AQUINAS COLLEGE 1	7:44:01	-	-	-	Sarah Beazley Rosana Jaeger Jaclyn Simpson Keeley Fensom Katie Mooyman Steffi McKeown Jaimie Symons Caitlin Gray Cox Georgina Cross

Heat 2 Results

	Club	Finish	1500	1000	500	Crew
1st	RANGI RURU GIRLS SCHOOL 1	7:05:57	-	-	-	Maryam Spagnuolo Sally Spackman Lucinda Paterson Anna Dawson Sophie Spiers Alexandra Burnside Jenna Suckling Julia Watherston Cox Rosie Ulrich
2nd	WESTLAKE GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL 1	7:19:52	-	-	-	Sarah Wolff Annabel Rowlands Sophie Jones Judith Quinlan Heather King Carolyn Davies Victoria Moss Olivia Wylie Cox Ella Davy
3rd	WAIKATO DIOCESAN SCHOOL 1	7:34:62	-	-	-	Kylie Marsh Brylee Haywood Hannah Cameron Anna Telfer Megan Holden Phillippa Summerville Juliet Anderson Charlotte Spratt Cox Kirsty Black
4th	MACLEANS COLLEGE 1	7:37:53	-	-	-	Alex Bayes Monique Lunt Zoe Shaw Marie Venter Lauren Hunter Leigh Brown Sarah Williams Madeline Seaman Cox Matthew Lunt
5th	HAMILTON GIRLS HIGH SCHOOL 1	7:48:41	-	-	-	Emelia Ritchie Courtney McKain Hope Williams Rhianna Laybourn Kendal Pehi Laura Clemens Hannah White Kelly Ditchburn Cox Amanda Bronlund