Sport In Short
ORIENTEERING
The university orienteering club are staging a race around the city this Sunday.
The event will take place in Oxford parks, through St Catz and Magdalen colleges and also at Oxford Brookes.
Organiser Tim Smith said: "This should be an exciting competition with at least 100 orienteers and students involved."
Anyone interested in taking part can contact Tim at Keble:
timothy.smith@keble.ox.ac.uk
CRICKET
The organiser of last season's cricket league has confirmed that Teddy Hall rather than St.Anne's won last season's Premier Division title.
When the final tables were exclusively published in the Oxford Student for the first time two weeks ago, there was uproar at the Hall, and captain Graeme Doran insisted his side were in fact rightful champions, having beaten Anne's in their final game. Even Anne's captain Mark Hiley admitted he thought Hall had taken the title.
But after undergoing a lengthy investigation, the OxStu sport department can reveal that an error by organiser Jim Head, the groundsman at Balliol, led to the mistake.
Mr Head recorded that in their final game, Anne's had made 233-8, and Teddy Hall 50 all-out, when in fact the scores were the other way round.
He said: "The score-sheet which was submitted was extremely confusing, and recorded the home side as scoring 233-8.
"The match was played at St.Anne's, so that is how the error came about.
"I can confirm in light of this that St.Edmund Hall won the division with 128 points, with St.Anne's runners-up on 114 points. The rest of the placings remain the same."
RUGBY UNION
Spectators at this year's Varsity match will have the chance to listen-in on the referee, after Oxford and Cambridge agreed to experiment with a newly designed device.
The referee link has been used at Leicester home games this season, and enables the crowd to hear the referee's comments throughout the game.
About 2,000 sets have already been sold at Leicester Tigers, but the University match on December 10 will be the first time the head-sets are used at Twickenham.
Nick Bunting, the national referees' officer, said he believed the device had already proved a success at Leicester.
He explained: "When Martin Johnson got sin-binned against Rotherham and a penalty try was awarded, there wasn't the same level of abuse from the crowd.
"This was because the spectators knew why the decision had been made."
Oxford coach Steve Hill also hailed the referee link:
"I was more than happy to agree to the use of the link at the Varsity match," he said.
"For a couple of quid it will give the crowd a better understanding of what is happening, and enable them to understand why certain decisions have been made," he added.
CRICKET
It may still only be autumn, but preparations are already underway for the start of the women's cricket season next summer.
There will be a session of professional coaching this coming Sunday (October 22) for anyone interested in getting involved in the game.
Players should meet at the Iffley Road astro-turf at 9:50am for a 10am start. Proceedings will come to an end at 11am.
Organiser Heather Lang said:
"The session will be suitable for women who have played a little or haven't played before, especially those who take part in other ball games."
For more information contact Heather at St.Anne's:
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19th Oct 2000