AUS Bushrangers Take Testmatch
Australia Bushrangers Take out Tightly Contested Test-Match
The Australian Bushrangers secured the overall victory in the final Test Match for 2016. The male divisions were closely contested across both senior and junior classes. The senior and junior women’s classes swung towards the Australian Bushrangers over the last weekend.
The two rounds held over the final weekend were very close in the senior men’s division. The final round round in the middle distance race was drawn, both teams locked on 26 points. However, the two point lead from Saturday’s Long Distance race to the Australian Elite Males was enough to secure a narrow win in this class.
In the junior division the New Zealand males built on their 2 point lead in the first round at the Sprint, to have an 18 point lead after a strong final showing in the last event of the three race series. The Australian junior women had a resounding victory to anchor an overall win to the Australian juniors.
Australia took out the Test Match overall winning back the Aspin-Key Trophy after NZ won the first Test Match earlier in the year held near Wellington.
| Senior Test Match | Time | PTS | Time | PTS | |
| PINESTARS v BUSHRANGERS | |||||
| AUS champs Carninval 2016 (QLD) | |||||
| SAT | SUN | ||||
| NZ Male Elite | |||||
| Tane Cambridge – Canterbury | 120.38 (19) | 3 | 57.31 (27) | 3 | |
| Nick Hann – Canterbury | 86.28 ( 3) | 8 | 36.19(1) | 10 | |
| Carsten Jorgensen – Canterbury | 106.26 (14) | 4 | 47.32 (15) | 4 | |
| Matt Ogden – Auckland | 82.06 (1) | 10 | 36.50 (2) | 9 | |
| NZ Male Elite Totals | 25 | 26 | 51 | ||
| Aus Male Elite | |||||
| Matt Doyle, VIC | 102. 09 (11) | 5 | 46.27(13) | 5 | |
| Ian Lawford, ACT | 92.37 (4) | 7 | 41.31(6) | 7 | |
| Brodie Nankervis, TAS | 100.27 (10) | 6 | 42 .40 (8) | 6 | |
| Simon Uppill, SA | 85.08 (2) | 9 | 39.14 (4) | 8 | |
| Reserve: Andrew Barnett, ACT | |||||
| Aus Male Elite Totals | 27 | 26 | 53 | ||
| NZ Womens Elite | |||||
| Amelia Horne – Red Kiwis, Manawatu | 123.47 (15) | 5 | 98.03 (21 | 5 | |
| Sarah O’Sullivan – Wellington, Wellington | 116.23 (14) | 6 | 47.48 (11) | 6 | |
| Imogene Scott – Auckland, Auckland | 88.38 (6) | 7 | 43.22 (6) | 9 | |
| NZ Women Elite Totals | 18 | 20 | 38 | ||
| Aus Women | |||||
| Jo Allison, ACT | 69.32 (1) | 10 | 44.00 (9) | 7 | |
| Natasha Key, VIC | 75.25 (2) | 9 | 41.25 (3) | 10 | |
| Belinda Lawford, ACT | 78.30 (3) | 8 | 43.40 (7) | 8 | |
| Reserve: Bridget Anderson, SA | |||||
| AUS Women Totals | 27 | 25 | 52 | ||
| Totals | |||||
| TOTAL NZ | 43 | 46 | 89 | ||
| TOTAL AUS | 54 | 51 | 105 |
| Juniors | Time (place) | PTS | |||||
| PINESTARS v BUSHRANGERS | |||||||
| AUS champs Carninval 2016 (QLD) | |||||||
| PTS 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 (Top 5 to count) | |||||||
| SAT | SAT | SUN | Totals | ||||
| NZ 17-20 Elite | |||||||
| Devon Beckman – Hawkes Bay, (M, L) | 102. 46 (12) | 2 | 39.41 (5) | 7 | |||
| Ed Cory-Wright – Canterbury (S, M, L) | 17.41 (3) | 8 | 86.48 (7) | 6 | 42.23 (7) | 5 | |
| Matt Goodall – Auckland (M, L) | 79.19 (2) | 9 | 37.46 (3) | 8 | |||
| Max Griffiths – Auckland (S, L) | 18.40 (5) | 6 | 89.48 (8) | 5 | |||
| Tommy Hayes – Auckland (M, L) | 84.31 (5) | 7 | 33.04 (1) | 10 | |||
| Callum Hill – Northland (S, L) | 19.18 (10) | 136.09 (24) | |||||
| Andre Popovici – Auckland (S, M) | 18.41 (6) | 5 | 49.59 (12) | 3 | |||
| David Rawnsley – Hawkes Bay,(S) | 19.03 (9) | 2 | |||||
| Calum Sutherland – Taranaki, (S, M) | 18.10 (4) | 7 | 50.01 (13) | 0 | |||
| NZ 17-20 Elite | 28 | 29 | 33 | 90 | |||
| AUS 17-20Elite | |||||||
| Patrick Jaffe – Vic (S, M, L) | 17.03 (2) | 9 | 74.46 (1) | 10 | 36.46 (2) | 9 | |
| Simeon Burrill – Qld (S, M, L) | 20.54 (22) | 92.39 (9) | 4 | 40.09 (6) | 6 | ||
| Stephen Melhuish – ACT (S, M) | 18.58 ( 8) | 3 | |||||
| Ashley Nankervis – Tas (S, L, M) | 20.26 (19) | DNF | 49.56 (11) | 4 | |||
| Jack Neumann – Qld (M, L) | DNF | 50.38 (15) | 0 | ||||
| Jarrah Day – Tas (S, L) | 16.56 (1) | 10 | 79.36 (3) | 8 | |||
| Toby Wilson –NSW (S, M) | 18.46 ( 7) | 4 | 50.28 (14) | 1 | |||
| Joseph Dickinson – Tas (L) | 100.03 (10) | 3 | |||||
| AUS 17-20Elite | 26 | 25 | 20 | 71 | |||
| Ellenna Cauldwell – Auckland (S, M, L) | 26.12 (17) | 2 | 0 | 53.01 (15) | 1 | ||
| Katie Cory-Wright – Canterbury (S, M, L) | 23.15 (10) | 5 | 74.53 (10) | 3 | 40.09 (5) | 6 | |
| Meghan Drew – Auckland (M, L) | 89.03 (13) | 2 | 48.06 (11) | 4 | |||
| Amelia Horne – Manawatu (S) | 32.22 (25) | ||||||
| Tegan Knightbridge – Auckland (S, M, L) | 30.12 (23) | 1 | 73.49 (9) | 4 | 50.38 (12) | 3 | |
| Carolyne Nel –Hawkes Bay (S, M, L) | MP | 72.24 (7) | 5 | 51.16 (13) | 2 | ||
| Heidi Stolberger – Auckland (S, M, L) | 23.17 (11) | 4 | 112.26 ( | DNF | |||
| NZ WOMEN | 12 | 14 | 16 | 42 | |||
| Anna Dowling – Tas (M, L) | 68.15 (3) | 8 | 38.21 (3) | 8 | |||
| Asha Steer – Vic (S, M, L) | 22.11 (6) | 7 | 72.01 (6) | 6 | 41.31 (6) | 5 | |
| Lanita Steer – Vic (S, M, L) | 18.48 (1) | 10 | 60.19 (1) | 10 | 37.53 (1) | 10 | |
| Tara Melhuish – ACT (S, M, L) | 19.17 (2) | 9 | 71.03 (5) | 7 | 39.22 (4) | 7 | |
| Zoe Dowling – Tas (S, M, L) | 20.13 (3) | 8 | 64.33 (2) | 9 | 38.09 (2) | 9 | |
| Joanna Maynard – WA (S, L) | 26.04 (16) | 0 | 92.14 (14) | ||||
| Georgia Jones – NSW (S, M) | 22.17 (7) | 6 | DNF | ||||
| AUS WOMEN | 40 | 40 | 39 | 119 | |||
| Total | |||||||
| TOTAL NZ | 40 | 43 | 49 | 132 | |||
| TOTAL AUS | 66 | 65 | 59 | 190 |