62 — Centralian Advocate, Friday, December 13, 2013

SPORT

Ellis and Preece lead way in classy wallopingBASKETBALL

Nick Kossatch

LEAGUE Women pacesettersWallabies Storm (LW) remain asthe only unbeaten side after a51-point thrashing over thefourth-placed Wallabies Storm(LRW).

In one of the more one-sidedcontests, the League Women ver-sion of the Storm were too classyfor its League Reserve counter-parts as Michelle Ellis and JaidenPreece scored 39 points betweenthem in its 65-14 win.

Ellis stroked 20 points withPreece scoring 19 points and

Trevina Byrne helped herself toeight points.

Only Teha Day (six points) andShay Warburton, with five, putany scoreboard pressure on fortheir team.

Twenty-three points to MemoMagic’s (LW) Jordann Hickeyhelped it to an easy 44-18 winagainst Wallabies.

The Magic extended their leadat each break in an even contrib-ution from all of their players.

Tegan Hatzmilhail also wassolid for the winners with ninepoints but the story was differentfor the Wallabies, who failed tohave anyone with real impact.

Memo Jets overcame a quarter-time deficit to overpower bottomside Wallabies Thunder (LRW) by29 points.

The Jets roared with a 17-2second stanza to break the gameopen, from which the Thundercould not recover.

Memo Jets’ win was orches-trated by 20 points from ShemaihParai and Lauren Parai (13).

Tiani Pon shot 11 points forWallabies Thunder and MargaretSmith put in nine points.

Rockets Saints returned to thewinner’s list with a stirring 51-43win against Memo Magic inLeague Men.

Sean Wilkinson (13 points) gotthe Saints off to a good start in thefirst quarter with six points as histeam led 12-5 at the break.

The Magic fought back throughdynamic youngster James Melkyand it was still in the game despitetrailing by 11 points at half time.

Tyson Mann and Lewis Chownwere terrific for Rockets Saintsscoring 13 and 11 points respect-ively as it staved off a challengefrom the Magic.

Melky, on the back of hisbrilliant 25-point game in theLeague Reserve Men the previousnight, continued his form withfour triples en-route to 19 points.

Melky’s team-mate Travis Mar-tin continued his consistentseason with 15 points.

The Saints are now just onegame behind second-placedWallabies Storm after pace-setters Nyewente beat the Storm60-53. It was an entertaining gamebut Nyewente always had the edgewith William Foster again settingthe standard with 18 points.

Foster got great support fromTristrum Watkins (16 points) andGreg Drew (eight).

The Storm’s Jaye Swan shot 16points and Chris Atkinson had annine-point second half to finishwith 14 points.

Brotherssmashingtheir PBsSWIMMING

NIck Kossatch

ALICE Springs swim-mers Charlie and HarryNewton had successfulmeets in the last of thePower and Water compe-titions for the year.

The brothers warmedup for their next swim inPort Augusta withCharlie swimming fourpersonal best times, in-cluding slashing 17sec offhis previous mark in oneof his favourite events,the 400m freestyle.

Harry followed the ex-ample of his brother, tak-ing 2sec off one of hisfavourites, the 200m indi-vidual medley.

Other swimmers toshow outstanding resultswere McKealy Tiller, tak-ing 22sec off her personalbest time in the 100mbackstroke.

Tira Kyreakou shaved6sec off her personal bestin the 100m backstrokeand Kirby Patterson-Fahy 10sec off her pre-vious personal best in the200m individual medley.

Erica Portelli betteredher previous personalbest time by 9sec in the200m individual medleya n d M e g a n B i l a t ostripped 3sec seconds offher personal best in the100m breaststroke.

Of the other AliceSprings swimmers, AbbeyBrown set a new personalbest time by 4sec in the400m freestyle and JarrodCross was outstanding byshaving off 22sec from hispersonal best in the100-metre backstroke.

Josh Haywood set a newpersonal best, improvingby 5sec in the 50mb r e a s t s t r o k e , a n dThomas Hooton also tookoff 5sec from his previouspersonal best in the sameevent.

Coach David Chalkersaid all the Alice Springsswimmers set high stan-dards.

‘‘All swimmers swamwell and those that didnot achieve PBs swamvery close to them with amere 100th of secondsbeing the difference,’’Chalker said.

The last formal trainingsession for the year isnext Friday with anamended training sched-ule over the Christmasand New Year holidayperiod.

An event filled with funTRIATHLON

Nick Kossatch

Jasper Edwards, Kathy Moylan, Glenn Edwards and Deb Page prepare for Moylan’s Mayhem on SundayPicture: PHIL WILLIAMS

ABOUT 30 triathletesacross all ages will competein Moylan’s Mayhem, a fun-based but competitivetriathlon event now in itsfifth year on Sunday.

Founder and competitorKathy Moylan said entrantscould start from either cyc-ling, running or swimmingat the Alice Springs Aquaticand Leisure Centre.

‘‘A lot of fun, people to falloff their bikes and people toswim amazing times in the100m sprint swims andpeople to have smiles ontheir faces at all times,’’Moylan said.

Registrations are avail-able up until just before theevent.

‘‘Rego sign-ins start at5.45am with race briefing at6.15am and then it’s 60 min-utes of mayhem, 6.30am to7.30am, followed by break-fast, giveaway prizes foreverybody and results.’’

Moylan said the triathlonwas designed for peoplelooking for extra fitness orthose who wanted to focuson particular aspects of atriathlon.

She is hopeful JordynKindness will compete,alongside promising young-ster Jasper Edwards andJames Steer.

Glenn Edwards is one ofthe more senior competitorsand said he had been doingtriathlons for ‘‘six or sevenyears’’ and competed in sev-eral triathlons every year, aswell as the ones he doesvolunteer work for.

‘‘Something different, I’vealways been a runner andI’ve never been a swimmerand always enjoyed thebikes, so it’s sort of a com-plete fitness package Isuppose,’’ he said.

‘‘Plus when I first startedwe had young kids and itwas good for them to getinto a sport like that andthey’ve kept with it, whichhas been good.’’

Anyone’s guess as Panthers, Norths fight for top spotBASEBALL

Nick Kossatch

PANTHERS and Norths meet inwhat is expected to be a tightbaseball match tonight from 9pm atLyel Kempster Field.

The battle is on for top spotbetween Panthers, Cubs, Northsand Demons, who were forced toforfeit last week against Norths.

Norths’ playing coach Nathan

Bell expects a tough contest. ‘‘Itcomes down to defence and offenceand if you minimise the errors it’sbound to come down to a tightgame,’’ he said.

Panthers had an easy win the lasttime the teams met, something Bellhopes won’t be repeated.

Cyril Dixon and William Fitzremain unavailable because of workcommitments and injury.

Bell said Stephen Bell and Brett

Trindle again loom as key playersfor his team.

Nathan Bell’s opposite numberDavid Kerrin said: ‘‘If we can keepour errors to a minimum and getrunners into scoring position, wehope to come away with the winbefore the break.’’

Venom will have gained enor-mous confidence from its fightingeffort against Cubs last week.

Tonight, from 7pm, it meets a

Demons side reeling from its forfeita week ago. Demons’ playing coachJackson Ankers said his team willbe close to full strength.

‘‘We’ll definitely be fielding astrong team. Venom are gettingbetter each week so we are stillgoing to go out there and play thebest that we can,,’’ he said.

Scott Miller and Brodie Rosier areimportant players for the Demons,according to Ankers.