Kayla McGrath State U15 Captain

Kayla McGrath will captain the Under 15 SA Scorpions side in the national championships to be held in Sydney in late November and early December.

Kayla was also captain of the SAPSASA team over the last two seasons.

She has had a very good season this year with 13 wickets at 7.21 per wicket (and taking a wicket every 10 balls!!!) - gaining a reputation for bowling at the death and claiming tail enders with her accurate left arm medium pacers.

We wish her and fellow Stingrays Hannah and Kelly Armstrong and Alice Springs based Stingray Tabitha Saville well over the next few days.

Go well, learn lots and enjoy the game.

A’s breakthrough for first 50 over win - Donna finishes with 3 in 4 - Bs down to top team

The As opened their account in the 50 over comp with a 52 run win over Port.

Batting first we batted our overs making 7/145.   This was about par on the slow running Christies High ground.  Tahlia was the backbone of the inning with a patient 44 (115).  She opened at batting well into the 43^rd over.  Her partnership of 58 with Kylie (42 off 52) set up the innings and her 46 run stand with Marg Hay (27 off 55) was the cream on the cake.

Kylie’s 42 was punctuated with 5 fours and 2 sixes. 

We field well – getting a run out in the fourth over to put the pressure Port.  Wickets fell in clusters as Dayna took three in six balls across her fifth and sixth overs, Kayla took three in four overs and Donna finished the innings with three in four balls.

The Bs were set 67 off 20 at Christies.  Brandi and Hannah gave us a great start with the ball to have West Torrens 3/7 in the 5^th over but a 50 run fourth wicket stand took the game out of our reach.

We also had an early order collapse to be 3/1 after two overs.

Hannah batted for 45 minutes for 11 to be our top scorer.

Many thanks to Chloe and Kelly who sub fielded for the Bs on Sunday.

We have a bye next week and at least six players away for the December 2 round. So if you can’t play please tell Kempey or Marg ASAP.

The C grade has their only pre-Christmas game on Sunday December 2.

 

Thanks to everyone in the Christies Open Market display Saturday morning.  We have at least two leads for sponsorship from this display.

Congratulations to Kayla McGrath, Hannah and Kelly Armstrong and Tabitha Saville who have been chosen to represent SA in the Under 15 state team in Sydney in late November early December.  Go well!!!

 

Good luck also to Kayla McGrath who will be the flag bearer on Saturday during the Test Match.  Donna, Rachael, Dayna, Cara and Shaunie Green have also been granted this honour.

As continue to win, Kylie in rich vein of form, Bs last ball win

The As continued their domination of the T20 competition with a 43 run win over perennial rivals Sturt.  This makes FIVE IN A ROW with three to play.

We won the toss and batted (5^th game in a row in this competition.) starting slowly being 1/35 at the end of 10 overs at 15 overs we were 3/74.  But a 57 run (34 balls) partnership between Marg Hay 15 off 16 and Kylie Rattray 59 (36) took the game away from the Blues.

Kylie’s innings of 59 (her top score for the season) included 8 fours and 3 sixes. The three sixes came in five balls from former State bowler Fiona McDonald in the last three overs of the innings.

Jess O’Reilly and Dayna Cox were provided very good support with 11 and 15 respectively followed by   a catch and two stumpings in one over.  (Kylie now has NINE STUMPINGS for the season.)

Youngsters Kelly Armstrong and Kayla McGrath cleaned up the Sturt innings in the 13-16^th overs taking five wickets for seven runs including opener Eliza Bartlett for 33.

Kylie’s stats are worth looking at for the season

She has made 204 runs averaging 68 per innings at a run rate of 136 runs per 100 balls. She has also taken 14 dismissals in five games (7 stumpings, 3 catches and 3 run outs)

 

 

The Bs got out of jail in the Sunday game – winning with two runs off the last ball.

Fielding first Port set us 100 off 20 overs.  Reflex catches from Joy Brown and Sam Dowling were the highlights of our fielding.  Chloe took 2/12 and Brandi bowled tightly to their top order.

Brandi got us off to a flyer with 25 off 24 balls (16 off the first two overs!), Cara continued her good form with 18 and Kayla Staszuk made her best score for the season with 15.  We looked pretty well set at 2/71 in the 14^th needing 30 off seven overs.  But the loss of Kayla and in the 18^th Cara slowed our progress.  Emily Armstrong made six and Sam Dowling 9no to see us home. 

Sam had the pressure on her in the last over with six needed off the last two balls – she hit a four off the second last and scrambled two on a misfield to see us 4/100 off our 20.

We have a role at the Christies Open market day on Saturday and A grade and B grade games at Christies High on Saturday and Sunday.

 

This week not so good

Both teams came up short against last year’s finalists.

The As chased for the first time for the season.

We had English international Beth Morgan caught early – but a 137 run second wicket stand between Sheridan and Lowe saw Kensington 2/159 at 31 overs and set to make close to 300.  We fought back taking 3/10 in six overs either side of the 34 over drinks break and slowed their scoring from overs 30-42 – but they fought back in the last eight overs to make 235.

Tahlia McGrath bowled well in two spells to finish with 2/38 sister Kayla also bowled tightly in the mid part of the innings finishing with 2/24 in her six over spell.

Our innings started solidly with 48 off the first 13 overs.  We scored 27 off overs 9, 10 and 11 to set up a charge but three quick wickets halted our quest for quick runs.  An 85 run partnership between Marg Hay (51) and Dayna Cox (29) saw us 3/139 in the 38^th over needing 95 off 12 overs (at just over eight an over.)  Kylie provided some fireworks in overs 41 (13 runs) and over 43 (15 runs) to have us 5/178 (needing 60 off the last seven) and give us just a sniff of victory.  But the loss of quick wickets saw us dismissed off the last ball 33 runs short.

 

The Bs came up against the powerful Adelaide Uni.  They made 2/159 off 20 with wickets to Cara and Nuggett.

We started well with 17 off the first four overs but lost wickets steadily to be 7/29 in the 1oth over.  But an enterprising and entertaining last wicket stand of 32 saw us bat to the end of 19^th over.  Cara Allen batted well for 29 not out. 

The highlight of the match was a 26 minute (21 balls) innings of 5 from 9 year old first gamer Ebony Fletcher.  She batted courageously and was give great encouragement from team mates.

The umpires complimented both sides on their Spirit of the game in this partnership.

 

Happy birthday to all the Novemberites - and there are many of us.  I won’t name them all as I usually leave someone out!

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This week back to T20s for the A grade as we take on Sturt on Saturday (venue to be confirmed) and the Bs who travel to Eric Sutton on Sunday.