As finals chances still alive Cs still need other results to go our way

The A grade win over Northern keeps our chances of making the finals alive.  Should we beat Tea Tree Gully this week we should make it.  (Our two contenders Port and Northern play the following weekend when we have the bye – one of them will lose!).

 

The As batted first against Northern (who we had beaten earlier in the season.) Rachael Greenshields gave us a good start with 15 (PB for the season). Wickets to state rep Cara Feibig had us in trouble being 6/42 in the 19^th over. 

 

But the "tail wagged" to get us to 142.  Marg Hay used all her experience to make her best score for Southern – 72.  She batted for almost two hours taking us from a perilous 3/27 to 9/140.  She hit 10 fours and shared match-winning partnerships with Courtney Brideson (13) (partnership 47 for the 7^th wicket); Donna Clark (9) (partnership of 35 for the 8^th wicket) and Kameni Gilligan (2no) (partnership of 16 for the 9^th wicket).  The last four wickets put on 100 to frustrate Northern and help us to bat 49 of our allotted 50 overs.

 

We took wickets at regular intervals with Northern's best partnership being 17.  Dayna had the figures with 2/4 off three overs – being well supported by Jess who took 2/10 – including four maidens in seven overs.  

 

The Bs batted hard to save outright points against top spot contender Sturt.  Sturt batted first in the heat of the day to amass 245 with number four batter Morgan Tucker making 101.  Brandi Ongley took two early wickets and finished with a PB of 3/33. 

 

We batted all but three of our overs with solid batting from Jess Vincent, Kayla McGrath, Joy Brown and Linda Anderson.  

 

The Cs battled hard against top team Tea Tree Gully.  The Gullies batted first making 135.  Hannah Armstrong took an early wicket (to take her tally to 11 for the season) but they scored at over six an over to bat us out of the game.  Tianna Muirhead took the figures with 2/41 off three overs.

 

We lost early wickets to be 4/19 in the seventh over.  But a 60 run stand between Marg Jude (29 retired) and Hannah Armstrong (22 no) made our score respectable.

 

STOP PRESS

With the Sturt beating Northern we need win our last two (one against Sturt) and  rely on other results going our way to make the finals.

 

It was great to see Linda Anderson resuming this week and Nicky Koritsa played in the Cs for her annual "two game" stint.  She resumes her state Korfball duties in a fortnight.

 

 

 This week:

 

The As play TTG at Helen Black, the Bs play Port at Eric Sutton (likely to change) on Saturday and the Cs Sturt at Park 25 (time likely to be 3pm.)