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.