\u201cI knew that I was doing pretty well, [Gwilliam] knew as well because he was giving me a lot of strike, so I have to thank him, too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gwilliam said it was a great moment to see his mate perform so well.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo see it happen with my eyes and be there was pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lance and Gwilliam were the opening batsmen.<\/p>\n
Team coach Matt Rose said it was a tactical decision to switch the batting order for the match, with Lance and Gwilliam usually batting fourth or fifth.<\/p>\n
Rose said he wanted the pair to get as many runs as possible in a short amount of time to give the team the best chance of winning.<\/p>\n
It paid off; Lance\u2019s first hit was a six and the runs kept coming.<\/p>\n
Lance did not think he would reach 100 runs but Rose said it was not something that was too far out of reach.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere have been a few times where he\u2019d get to 50 or 60 and then go out so it was nice to see him push on,\u201d Rose said.<\/p>\n
Rose said Gwilliam played \u201cquite sensible\u201d to enable Lance to continue his streak of boundaries.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was mature enough to understand that Archie was going pretty well,\u201d Rose said.<\/p>\n
Archie\u2019s father, Tom Lance, is a Whanganui Cricket representative.<\/p>\n
Lance said his dad had given him some cricketing tips over the years that had contributed to his confidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has told me not to get down on myself and to feel confident no matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n
He spent all summer practising in his spare time to get used to the hard cricket balls used in games.<\/p>\n
Huntley School headmaster Sam Edwards said the school was \u201cincredibly proud\u201d of Lance\u2019s achievement.<\/p>\n
\u201cScoring a century from just 30 balls is a remarkable feat at any level of cricket and reflects both natural talent and a great deal of hard work,\u201d Edwards said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe encourage our students to play with confidence, courage and enjoyment, and this innings certainly captured all of those qualities. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt is wonderful to see our students achieving success in sport while representing the school with such pride.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lance said his goals in cricket were simple – \u201chave fun and give my best\u201d.<\/p>\n
Gwilliam said he had \u201cticked off\u201d one of his main goals in cricket, which was to be a part of a 150-run partnership.<\/p>\n
Lance is yet to decide on his secondary school for 2027, with Whanganui Collegiate School, Palmerston North Boys\u2019 High School and Francis Douglas Memorial College all high on his list.<\/p>\n
Fin Ocheduszko Brown is a multimedia journalist based in Whanganui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI knew that I was doing pretty well, [Gwilliam] knew as well because he was giving me a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335941,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[180009,172842,110271,15364,16558,71,4508,180008,78,17470,10543,111,139,180010,69,9617,15556,4062,6649,213],"class_list":["post-335940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-30ball","tag-archie","tag-balls","tag-century","tag-cricket","tag-from","tag-hits","tag-huntley","tag-in","tag-lance","tag-match","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-notched","tag-nz","tag-player","tag-runs","tag-school","tag-schools","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}