Women: A’S LOSE TO PORT

The A grade played themselves into a good position but could not quite take the points in their T20 game over Port.

We fielded first – with Port making 3/117 of their 20. We had them 3/57 in the 10^th – but a 60 run – run a ball 3^rd wicket stand took them to a respectable just under six an over.

Our bowling was steady, with wickets to Kylie, Alex and Dayna.

Our top four batters all got starts. Tahlia got off the mark for the season with a patient 22, Dayna 13 (three fours) and Jess 18 (17 balls) gave support to Kylie Rattray's cameo innings of big hitting!

Kylie hit 31 off 14 balls with three towering sixers over the 55 metre boundaries. The McGrath / Rattray partnership (47 in 36 balls) took us to 2/97 in the 16^th over. We needed 22 off the last 30 balls – but the loss of quick wickets slowed the runs to a trickle.

Both teams have a bye next week.

State news from this week -
Donna Clark and Tahlia McGrath won state selection in the SA Under 15 team which travels to Brisbane in December. Kylie Rattray is a reserve.

Women: B’S FIRST WIN FOR THE SEASON

The B grade women broke through for their first win for the season in a last ball thriller over Port. It was our first win over Port in B grade as we lost to them in the four games we played last season (including last year's semi final.)

We sent the Maggies in and were set 128. Their innings was set up by a 99 run first wicket stand (the first wicket falling in the 14^th over to Rachael Greenshields.) The loss of wickets slowed the momentum of the innings as we took 5 for 29 in the last seven overs. Kayla McGrath bowled accurately "at the death" to take 2/9 off three overs with Rachael (two wickets) and Nick "Nuggett" Adams (one) also bowling well.

The Southern innings started with a rush (18 off the second over) to have us 0/29 when spin was introduced in the fourth over. Wickets in consecutive balls saw us 2/29 in the fifth.

But Nuggett (Nick Adams) and Shorty (aka Kayla McGrath) rebuilt the innings to take us to 3/94 in the 17^th over. This partnership of 63 set up the fireworks which were to follow. Brandi Ongley batting at Number 6 came in with 35 needed off 18 legal deliveries. We scored nine off the 18^th over – equation 25 off 12. The second last over went for 15 with a mixture of wides, byes and runs off the bat. With one over to go we needed 10. Nuggett did the job with the first five balls scoring (9) - two, dot, two, four and one. With Brandi's hit through square leg for two we won the game on the last ball.

Nuggett's 64 no off 54 balls was a Personal Best. (It continues her good scores for the season with 64 off 54 balls with nine fours.) For Kayla it was a very mature innings with Port fielders around the bat she pushed the gaps and made Nuggett really work for her singles.

Notes on the game

• Nick Adams 64 no PB (after scores of (11, 17 and 21 this season)
• Kayla McGrath 14 PB
• Adams / McGrath 63 off 73 balls and Adams / Ongley 35 off 14 balls
• Port lost 5 for 29 off 6.5 overs having been 0/99

Women: Cs open the season with a win

The C grade opened the season with a 75 run win over Northern.

With the B grade forfeit we were able to play regular B graders Kayla McGrath, Cara Allen and Linda Anderson.

Having won the toss we got of to a flyer with first gamer Tayla Ferguson and Kayla McGrath making 32 in the first five overs. Kayla's wicket was OUR ONLY LOSS OF WICKET FOR THE GAME. Tayla batted very well for 27 (off 30 balls), Cara Allen 28 (37) , captain Amy White 13 (17) and Hannah Clarke 8 (5) were all retired.

Kayla, Cara and Tayla bowled accurately in our first set of five. It was the sixth over of the innings with a wicket to Tianna Muirhead ( the first of Marg Jude's stumpings!). Tianna followed with a wicket in her second over, Tayla Ferguson in her second over and Hannah Clarke cleaned up the tail with three wickets in four balls at the end of the innings.

DEBUTS:

Tayla Ferguson (first senior game having played Under 16s two seasons ago and our Indoor team in the winter of 2008.)

Gail Ward

NOTE ON THE GAME:

ü Cara Allen PB 28 retired

ü Hannah Clarke PB 3/8 off 2.2 overs. – LAST FOUR BALLS READ WICKET, WIDE, WICKET (NEW OVER) 1 RUN WICKET –THREE WICKETS IN FOUR BALLS!

ü Northern at one stage were 1/30 – all out 35.

ü Marg Jude took two stumpings off Tianna Muirhead on the fourth ball of her first and second overs.

Women: A GRADE WOMEN BACK TO EARTH

A GRADE WOMEN BACK TO EARTH

The A grade women came back to earth with a thud after their second up win last week – losing to arch rivals Tea Tree Gully.

The Tea Tree Gully innings started in spectacular fashion with two wickets. Dayna Cox bowled fellow state reps Victoria Bach and Tamara Clapton for first ball "ducks." Jess O'Reilly followed up with a wicket in her second over to have the Gullies reeling at 3/17. But an 88 run fourth wicket stand effectively played us out of the game. Tahlia McGrath continued her very impressive bowling with 4/25 off 10 and Donna Clark was very consistent with 38 off her 10 overs.

We lost Dayna early, but once again Rachael Greenshields was involved in the best partnership of the innings (33) with Shari Bray. Shari batted for over 70 minutes making a well compiled 28. (She said afterwards it felt really good out there!) The loss of her wicket (4/64 in the 20^th) meant the game was out of reach. However, a late partnership between Jess O'Reilly (9) and Kylie Rattray (21) saw us end up with 115.

DEBUT - MARGARET HAY,

GAME HIGHLIGHTS

• Dayna Cox's first over read

Wide W . . .2 wides (one run) W .

• Dayna had two scoring shots off her bowling in the eight overs she bowled ( however 29 wides!)
• We bowled 61 wides / TTG 31
• The best partnership for the season is still the first one between Dayna and Shari of 44. Second best is Rachael and Shari in today's game of 34.
• Tahlia McGrath's 4/25 is the second four wicket haul for our bowlers – but Jess O'Reilly still has the best figures for the year 4/18 last game.

THIS WEEK WE HAVE PORT IN THE FIRST OF THE T20 GAMES FOR THE SEASON.

A BIG THANK YOU to all who attended the Dinner on Saturday evening especially our social secretary Geniveve.

SPONSOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We acknowledge the assistance of the THE ORIGINAL OPEN MARKET at Christies Beach who are sponsoring two of our players this season.

Women: HISTORIC FIRST A GRADE WIN

HISTORIC FIRST WIN

In only our second game in A grade we won a hard fought game over Kensington by two wickets.

Batting first the Browns were soon in trouble with six wickets falling to our opening bowlers Jess O'Reilly and Dayna Cox. Jess took three wickets in her second over to reduce Kensy's top order to 4/17 after five overs. Jess finished with 4/18 and Dayna 2/30.

They were well supported by Donna Clark and Alex Daly who both took their first A grade wickets.

Kensington's score of 76 looked to be achievable.

However, we were in early trouble – losing opener Dayna Cox first ball. Solid partnerships between Jess O'Reilly and Rachael Greenshields (16), Jade Ambler and Rachael (18) and Kylie Rattray and Jade (14) took us to 3/48 with 25 overs left. We had a mid order collapse 5 /12 to be 8/62 with 15 overs to go. For the second week in a row Nic "Nugget" Adams (11) batted with solid defence and tempered aggression to make 11. She was well supported by Alex Daly to see us pass the score in the 38^th over.

Alex and Kate Weger put the icing on the cake with a final wicket stand of 27 (unbroken.) We received 12 penalty runs for Kensington not bowling their overs in the required time.

NOTES ON THE GAME

• The top score for the game was 11 – made by Blyth Schembri (K) and Nic Adams (S)
• Both teams bowled wides! Kensington 43 (50 overs) and Southern 40 in 22.
• A grade debuts for Southern – Jess O'Reilly, Donna Clark, Courtney Brideson
• The final wicket (10^th) stand of 27* between Alex Daly (4*) and Kate Weger (8*) was highest for the game on either side
• Jess O'Reilly's second over read W . 1 wide 1 WW
• A wicket to Dayna in the next over meant we took four wickets in nine balls

The B grade game was not played due to poor pitch conditions on Friday.

Women: A grade lose in brave effort to last years premiers

In a game very much affected by the windy conditions we were very competitive against last years SACA Women's Premiers West Torrens.

Losing the toss we had a wicket in the first over with DAYNA COX taking the first wicket LBW from the 3^rd legal delivery of the match. Torrens added 99 for the second wicket when Alex Daly through down the stumps from side-on. Shari Bray took the valuable wicket of opposition captain Angela Moritz (49) to have the Eagles 3/129 in the 26^th. But a fourth wicket stand of 54 took them to 183 in the 40^th. We took wickets steadily to dismiss them for 222 in the 50^th over.

Tahlia McGrath was the most economical of the 10 over bowlers with 1/23 off 10 overs. Kylie Rattray bowled well with 0/9 off five and Jade Ambler did some hard yakka into the breeze to finish with two wickets.

Kate Weger kept exceptionally well with no byes in the 222 runs scored.

We started well with a 43 run opening stand between Shari and Dayna. This was made up of only 14 runs off the bat in the seventh over. We lost four wickets in the next 15 overs to be 5/76 after 22 overs. Kylie (16) and Jade (14) with a 30 run stand gave us a chance at 5/106 in the 25^th and a 34 run stand for the 8^th wicket between Nicole "Nugget" Adams (17) and Jade saw us within sight at 7/158 with 15 overs left and a chance of penalty runs for slow over rate.

However, despite some resolute batting from Jade (97 minutes) and Jess Vincent (23 minutes) we were bowled out for 187.

Notes on the game – in our first A grade game

Ø The first runs scored off the bat in our innings were scored by Captain Shari Bray

Ø The first wicket was taken by Dayna Cox who had A Cleggett lbw for 0 on the third legitimate ball of the innings

Ø Shari Bray took the first catch in A grade – a slips catch off Jessica Vincent

Ø Opposition captain Angela Moritz had a 17 ball over (with 11 wides ) with her 7^th over and 28^th of the innings

Ø With the very strict interpretations of one-day wides in A grade we bowled 46 and West Torrens 87.

Ø First A Grade team in batting order were 1. Shari Bray (c), 2.Dayna Cox (v-c), 3. Rachael Greenshields, 4. Kate Weger (wk), 5. Kylie Rattray, 6. Tahlia McGrath, 7. Jade Ambler, 8. Alex Daly, 9. Nic Adams, 10. Linda Anderson, 11. Jessica Vincent 12^th Kayla McGrath – Coach Joe Hoad, Manager Barry McGrath.

Women: B’s down to last years C grade Premiers

In a replay of last year's C grade Grand Final the result was much the same.

Batting first things looked promising at 1/44 with captain Courtney Brideson (15) and Vic "Nuggett" Wood (22) being well set. But the lost of the second wicket signalled a collapse – all out 53.

We had the Pirates 3/13 at one stage – but they recovered to be 6/164 at the end of their 40 overs.

We thought we won sections of the game – an 11 over section of our innings (44 off eleven overs) and the first seven overs of their innings (Prospect 3/13.)

.

The bowling honours were shared – but Kayla McGrath took the figures with 1/12 off six overs bowling "seam up".

A big thank you to Mums Genevieve Brideson (first run) and Linda McGrath who "filled in" and Tahlia McGrath and Rachael Greenshields who gave us 11 fielders.