Looking to get past a Lincoln High School player during a sporting exchange between the two schools on Monday was Ashburton College’s Will Joyce. Joyce and his senior boys’ basketball team mates picked up a win, on what was a pretty good day for the home sides all around. Photo supplied.Winning all bar one of the battles on court set Ashburton College up for a narrow win in an annual sporting exchange with Lincoln High School on Monday.

Ashburton College took the victory 7-6 after dominating when it came to the sports that played out indoors, while Lincoln had the edge outside under the surprisingly blue skies.

A bad forecast meant that when the youngsters left school for the weekend on Friday, there was a good chance of weather stopping the exchange from going ahead, but after a cold and wet weekend Monday’s skies dawned clear.

And the visitors made the most of the fine conditions, with Lincoln winning both of the day’s football encounters with relative ease.

The Lincoln boys won 5-1 at the Ashburton Domain while the Lincoln girls beat their Ashburton College counterparts 11-0.

It was a similar story on the hockey turf, with the Lincoln hockey girls keeping the home side scoreless and winning 8-0, while the Lincoln boys won 4-1.

Lincoln did suffer one loss outside, though, with the under-15 rugby battle at Celtic going the way of Ashburton College 36-14.

The Lincoln side did pick up a couple of wins indoors, too, taking out the table tennis 5-1 and the senior girls’ basketball 47-41.

But that basketball win was the only one Lincoln picked up of the seven games that played out at the EA Networks Centre.

There were four basketball games played all-up, with Ashburton College taking out the senior boys’ game 66-47 and the junior girls’ game 45-32, before the junior boys picked up the biggest win of the day, 95-33.

Three netball games were also contested and all three went the way of the Ashburton College sides, although they were close.

The College B girls won 25-21, while the year 10A girls won 24-21 and the year 9A girls just managed to sneak the win 31-30.

By Erin Tasker © The Ashburton Guardian - 13 August 2019