Centralian Advocate, Friday, February 7, 2014 — 41

SPORTS

Best guess what it takesto win time tease prizeRUNNING

ALICE Springs Runningand Walking Club will hostan event with a slight twisttomorrow.

Unlike most runs wherethe person who crosses theline first is declared thewinner, the 5.1km BrianBlakeman Surveying TimeTease’s top prize will be wonby the person who can getclosest to their estimatedtime.

Club president JohnBermingham said it wascertainly different to mostevents he has been involvedwith.

‘‘It is a very unusual con-cept because everyone hasan even chance of winning,’’he said.

‘‘You don’t have to be the

fastest around the course.

‘‘When entering, each per-son must nominate the timethat they think will run orwalk for 5.1km.

‘‘No watches or other pac-ing devices can be wornduring the event.

‘‘The winner is the personwhose finishing time isclosest to their estimatedtime.’’

Last year’s winner gotwithin one second of theirestimated time, with secondplace out by three seconds.

The Alice Springs Run-ning and Walking Clubevent, which starts on thewest side of the JohnBlakeman Bridge at 7am, isopen to everyone.

Mini event has maxi appealas crowds turn out in forceTRIATHLON

T H E A l i c e S p r i n g sTriathlon Club Get PhysicalMini-Triathlon was a mass-ive hit at the weekend, withmore than 100 men, womenand children taking part.

Kevin Coyle took out themen’s with an impressivetime of 16 minutes and 46seconds in the 100m swim,5km bike ride and 1km run.

Christopher Turner(0:16.55) was nine secondsbehind in second place andJames Steer (0:17.07)rounded out the places.

Fiona Collier crossed theline first in the women’s,clocking a time of 0:17.17,more than a minute fasterthan her nearest rivals.

Penny Reid (0:18.26) and

Chelsea Rogers (0:18.41) fin-ished second and third re-spectively, while young gunJordyn Kindness was infourth spot on 0:19.38.

Up next on the triathlonclub’s exciting 2014 calendaris the Sprint Series whichconsists of three races.

The three races are onFebruary 16 (sprint seriesrace one), March 2 (handi-cap triathlon) and March 30(sprint series race two).

There will be two dis-tances to choose from, theintermediate distance witha 300m swim, 10km bike and2km run and the sprint dis-tance race which will be a750m swim, 20km bike and5km run.

The first two races of thisseries are members only.

Brothers firingFEDERAL ASbuild juniorcricketers Tom and WilliamKelaart attended the JustinLanger cricket camp inPerth late last month.

More than 300 buddingcricketers aged 6-17 at-tended Hale School fromacross WA and beyond.

The brothers, (picturedwith Justin Langer) whoplay Junior Division Twofor the Demons, had theopportunity to further de-velop their cricket skills.

They also got to meetformer Australian Testopening batman and WAcoach Justin Langer.

Tom had won a scholar-ship to attend from theAustralian Sports Camp inMelbourne last year andwas again awarded the mostpromising player in his agegroup.

William achieved thishonour the previous year.

Sign-on openfor all levelsTABLE TENNIS

THE Alice Springs TableTennis Association will behaving a competition signon evening next Thursdayfrom 7pm at the OLSHMarian Centre, SadadeenRd, Sadadeen Campus

New and experiencedplayers are welcome andcoaching is available andcompetition starts onThursday February 20 from7pm.

PROGRAM: Tuesdays7pm (social and training),Sundays 3-5pm (coaching,social and training), Thurs-days 4-5.15pm (via schoolregistration, from February20 for five weeks).

For more information,contact: 0415 077 087 or tryour website on: astta.asn.au.

Lefoe gears upfor busy SundayDoug Booth

HORSE RACING

LEADING Alice Springs

trainer Lisa Lefoe has eight

runners in Sunday’s five-

race card at Pioneer Park.

Lefoe, who trails Terry

Gillett in the race to finish

top of the Alice Springs

trainer premiership, has 29.5

wins under belt this season.

But she is likely to start

closing the gap on Gillett,

who leads with 35 wins.

Gillett will concentrate on

riding now his wife Leanne

has taken up her trainer’s

licence once again.

Lefoe refused to comment

on the battle for the prem-

iership, preferring instead

to speak about her eight

runners on Sunday.

British Bulldog kicks off

her challenge in race one,

the Lasseters Hotel 0-70

Handicap over 1200m.

The five-year-old gelding

has not won in Alice Springs

since last June but managed

to finish second to Concini

at his last start.

‘‘He has been consistent

without winning,’’ Lefoe

said. She has three runners

in race two, the XXXX Gold

Benchmark 73 Handicap

over 1100m.

Diesel Fuel has not raced

since last September and,

according to Lefoe, the

eight-year-old gelding is

likely to need the run.

In his last seven starts,

the son of Fraar has won

once over 1200m and had

four seconds.

Princess Zietta is also first

up from a spell but is in

good form, having won

three of her past four starts,

including a last-start win on

December 1.

The six-year-old mare is

looking for her 10th career

win with Paul Denton in the

saddle. Turning Stone, a

last-start winner on Austra-

lia Day with Denton on

board, could well add to his

record of seven wins from

23 starts.

In race three, Go Carnegie

is having his second start in

the Red Centre after finish-

ing a disappointing sixth on

her debut two weeks ago.

The five-year-old mare is

joined by Keep the Crown

(Raymond Vigar) in the

Double Tree Handicap

over 1100m.

Lefoe has Danger Mouse

(Denton) and Magic Mike

(Kim Gladwin) in race four,

the Bellette three-year-old

sprint (BM52) over 1000m.

Demons pitcher Wes Tohi Picture: CHARLIE LOWSON

Fast start the keyto nabbing victoryBASEBALL

Nick Kossatch

PANTHERS meet Cubs in atop-of-the table clash inround 13 of baseball tonightfrom 7pm at Lyel KempsterField.

Both teams have beateneach other during theseason and Cubs player/coach Rob Brown said get-ting off to a fast start wasthe key.

‘‘I’m looking forward to itreally and we’ve got toknuckle down and get our-selves ready for finals,’’Brown said. ‘‘So I think weneed to get on top of themand really stamp our auth-ority.

‘‘If we can beat them aswell then we have beaten allthe teams that are in therace and that’d give us a bitof confidence coming intothe finals.’’

Cubs will be fielding a fullsquad and Brown expectsmore consistency from histeam.

‘‘We’re going to have to hitwell and I think our biggestproblem all season has beenone bad innings and lettingother teams get away with acouple of errors,’’ he said.

Brown mentioned JamesAllen and David Woodburyas pitchers who will be criti-cal on the mound in comingweeks.

‘‘The pitchers really haveto throw a lot of pitches overthe next few weeks,’’ he said.

Panthers’ player-coachDavid Kerrin said therewere a number of Cubsplayers that needed to beshut down.

‘‘The game against Cubswill be a very tough affairand they have several keyplayers like Ray Brown,J i m m y A l l e n , D a v i dWoodbury, Peter Delahayeand Rob Brown,’’ Kerrinsaid.

‘‘We will need to be fo-cused from the start andmaintain our intensity forthe whole game.

‘‘We will need to keep our

errors to a minimum and hitthe ball when we have run-ners on base in scoring pos-ition. There have beenmany times when we haveleft runners stranded onbase.’’

In the late match at 9pmthe fourth-placed Northsteam are firm favourites tobeat winless Venom.

With two games separat-ing Norths from second-placed Cubs, it has thechance to sneak into top-two contention if Panthersbeat the Cubs and Norths dothe job on Venom.

Norths’ mentor NathanBell said his team had yet togel properly and remainedphilosophical about how farhis team could go.

The team will be missingregular pitchers StephenBell and Brett Trindle butDylan Trindle will start onthe mound.

‘‘After last game I reckonhe did all right, he did reallywell,’’ Nathan Bell said ofDylan Trindle.