WOMEN'S AWARD EVENING

Thanks to everyone involved in the Annual Trophy Presentation evening held in front of OUR CHANGE ROOMS last Friday. (Especially Sharon)

Thanks to Life Members Grae MacKinnon and President Harvey Jolly who presented awards.

We had over 40 people attend and I am aware a number of parents doubled up with the Junior Evening in the main pavilion.

 THE AWARD WINNERS WERE:

A GRADE batting Tahlia McGrath 427 runs @ 29.0

Bowling Dayna Cox 22 wickets @ 21.7

 Fielding Dayna COX

Coach's Award - Donna Clark and Rachael Greenshields

B GRADE

Batting - Nicole  “Nuggett” Adams 131 runs @ 21.8

Bowling - Chloe Lyons 11 wickets @16.0

Fielding - Nicole Baker

Coach's Trophy - Chloe Lyons

C GRADE
Batting - Hannah Armstrong 124 runs at 62.5

Bowling – Emily Armstrong 7 wickets @ 12.7

Fielding – Hannah Armstrong

Coach's Trophy - Serena Ongley

DUCK AWARD – Rachael Greenshields six

PLAYER OF THE YEAR
TAHLIA MCGRATH

IQ – (Ideal Qualities) NIKKI MOYLE

Bs into GF – tail wags to bring us home

The B grade are in the Grand Final after a nail biting one wicket win over West Torrens. An eighth wicket stand of 45 gave us a sniff of victory and the calm batting of Kayla Staszuk with Brandi Ongley and Chloe Lyons saw us win in the 36th over.

Bowling first we held the Eagles to 151 – taking the last seven wickets for 50 and last five for 25.

Courtney Brideson and Brandi bowled tightly in their opening spell to hold them to 12 off the first six overs.  Courtney secured the first wicket in the 9^th over, we were held up for the next 10 overs as they put on 47 for the second wicket.  They put on a further 35 for the third. But we secured wickets at regular intervals for the remaining 16 overs to dismiss them just inside the 40 overs.

We started well with Courtney and Linda Shaw putting on 33 for the first wicket in seven overs.  We lost wickets at regular intervals to be 5/61 in the 17^th over.  Marg Hay and Nicole Baker put on 29 to be the first of the key partnerships.  Marg was out at 7/92 to leave us in a precarious position.

Kayla Staszuk (28 no) and Brittney Miller (8) provided the second key partnership of 45 for the eighth wicket to have us 8/137 in the 34^th over and within sight of victory.  Brandi hit six to take us to within five runs and Chloe Lyons and Kayla scored two singles and a boundary in the 36th over to see us home with over three overs to spare.

The Kayla / Brittney partnership of 45 was scored of nine overs (five and over) and saw us score nine(2), eight and a  seven off overs in this part of the game as the Eagles battled to find the right bowling combination. It was our highest partnership for the eighth wicket for the year surpassing the 35 by Nicole and Hannah Baker earlier in the season.

 This week we have Adelaide University - the top team - who have lost only once this season....

Bs enter finals in winning form - As brave in defeat

The B grade enter the finals in winning form after a convincing 129 run win over last year’s premiers East Torrens.

We batted first but were in early trouble being 4/24.  Good partnerships between Marg Hay (84) and Courtney Brideson (13) 26, Robyn Lecornu (8no)/ Emily Armstrong (8) 48, Nicole Baker (20) 58 and 16 between Brandi Ongley (6) and Brittney Miller (8) gave us 9/174.

Marg batted into the 36^th over and took the sting out of the East Torrens attack.  She only hit six boundaries and was suffering from cramp as she tried to accelerate the scoring.

We had The Easterners 5/15 after our opening bowlers finished their opening spell of eight overs and looked set for a second innings, but they kept us in the field until just after 5pm.  Courtney continued her good wicket taking form with 3/3. She was well backed up by Brandi 2/12 and Linda Shaw 2/5.

The B grade go into the finals finishing second.  This is  great effort from this team as we only won one game in the T20 comp before Christmas.

This week we play West Torrens at a venue to be decided on Tuesday.

The As were brave in defeat for the second game in a row.

Bowling first we failed to take a wicket until the 28^th over and after that took eight!

Dayna Cox, Hannah Armstrong and Georgia Weatherspoon took two apiece to hold the top side to 218. We lost early wickets to be 4/49 in the 23^rd over.  Good partnerships between Georgia Weatherspoon (27) and Kylie Rattray (54) 66, Jess O’Reilly (50 no) and Georgia (30) and 23 between Jess and Hannah took us to 199 off our 50 overs.

Kylie continued her good form of recent weeks with her third 50 since for 2012.

Don’t forget FRIDAYS PRESENTATION EVENING.  BYO DINNER AND CHAIR.

25 year and 50 year awards

Southern District congratulates the following members for their service to cricket.

Marg Jude received an award for 50 years service.  She played for Australia, South Australia and clubs in SA and NSW.  She has been involved in the administration of clubs and is our C grade playing coach.

Marg Hay received a 25 year medal for her services to Indoor Cricket, Club cricket at Port, Flinders and Southern.  She was a rep at Indoor Cricket for Australia, SA and Queensland.  Currently she is the captain coach of our B grade team and the state Indoor Coach.

Trish Pinder has been heavily involved in Junior Cricket at Reynella East and previously Mt Gambier.  She is currently the organiser of Beginner Cricket at Reynella East and Kanga at Reynella Community Club.

See the main page for our recognition of other fellow members

Kylie PB in As loss - Bs safe in second

Kylie Rattray continued her good form of recent weeks with a usual hard hitting 75 with 9 fours and 2 sixes. 

Kylie has been invited to be an “add on” player for the state team and will play in the City v Country game at Adelaide Oval Wednesday evening.

We put Port in taking an early wicket (1/32) but they had a series of significant partnerships (60, 21, 43, 50 and 40) to achieve 282.  State wicket keeper Alicia Dean scored 78.  Tahlia McGrath continued her good form with the ball taking 3/41.

We lost early wickets to be 5/18 in the 9^th.  Kamani (30) and Kylie (75) started the revival with a 57 run   partnership to have us six runs behind Port at the 25 over mark (5/110 to 3/116) and five runs behind at the 30 over mark (5/136 to 3/141) but the loss of two wickets in the 30 to 35 over spell put us behind the required rate.

Kayla McGrath scored her PB at A grade level with 22 off 63 balls – batting for just on an hour.  The 70 run partnership for the seventh wicket was the best for the A grade in four seasons. (and the best for the Women’s teams in all grade for the seventh wicket.)

Rachael Greenshields and Jess O’Reilly put on 45 for the ninth wicket to bat us into the 46^th over taking us to 197.

The Bs received a very late forfeit from Port (10.30pm Saturday night.)  This gives us second spot with a semifinal against either West Torrens, Sturt or Northern TTG on Sunday 25^th.

The C grade finished their Supa six smash season with a game on Adelaide Oval which was a great thrill for all of us – including the umpires.

Thanks to Marg Jude for her work with this team and players Nikki Moyle, Amy White, Tianna Muirhead, Serena Ongley, Judy Moyle and the Faulkner girls who played in this team over the last six weeks.

BRIDESON BLITZES BROWNS - Bs in the finals

Courtney Brideson produced career best figures of 6/0 and 3/3 to spearhead the Bs outright win over Kensington.

Courtney bowled with pace and accuracy to the Browns 7/12 after nine overs.  The quick dismissals meant we could control the game. We passed their score in the second over and proceeded to score quickly to give ourselves over two hours to dismiss them again.  They scored 14.

 We batted for 21 overs to make 126 with Nuggett making 34, Linda Shaw 20 and Nicole Baker 18.  Of the first eight batters five were retired.

We dismissed them for 27 batting a second time.

The 29 point game ensures the Bs will play finals.  This has been a huge effort for Marg Hay’s team as they won only one game in the first half of the season.

The As were set 254 by Sturt.  Donna Clark earned her best figures for the season with 4/31. Rachael (6) and Tahlia (44) gave us a good start with 31 – but the next best partnership was 29 for the last wicket between Hannah Armstrong (16 – her PB in A Grade) and Kayla McGrath (5).

Kylie Rattray’s big day out.

Kylie had scored her highest score in a school game for Woodcroft College last Monday.  Her 156 no was scored off 44 balls with 13 fours and 14 sixes.  She was playing against Adelaide High who were the 2011 champions in the Open Girls Competition.

This week the As play Port at Helen Black on Saturday, the Bs play Port at Christies on Sunday.  The C grade girls have a game at Adelaide Oval at 9 am Sunday morning.