No pre Christmas win this year

Kensis took 115 off the first 12 overs to set up their score.

Our reply saw Jess make her best score for the season with 35 out of our 80.  The best partnership was 21 between Jess and Alecia.

Chloe Dancer hit her first 4 in the As.

The Bs lost wickets at regular intervals to be dismissed for 27.

Caitlin Secoffien and Tayla Smith took early wickets to have Sturt 2/3 in the second over, but they passed us in the eighth over.

The encouraging part of the weekend was the fact that both teams had a full set of players (with no Mums!)

It looks as if we will pick up three new players in the new year to play A grade.  We continue to recruit new players with Erin Temme and Shavani Sahni making their Southern debuts over the weekend.

Don’t forget the Christmas show on Saturday night at the Oval.

T MAC A STRIKER

FROM STRIKERS WEBSITE

(T Mac becomes our second homegrown Striker... Gary Putland was the first!)

The Adelaide Strikers have secured three exciting signings, including the team’s first ever WBBL sponsor.

All-rounder Tahlia McGrath and medium-pace bowler Samantha Betts, along with Principal Sponsor, Websters Lawyers have joined for the inaugural season of the rebel Women’s Big Bash League.
 
McGrath is in career-best form, having scored her first half-century for the Breezair SA Scorpions in a match-winning partnership with fellow Striker Sarah Coyte in November’s WNCL fixture against Queensland.
 
Both McGrath and Broken Hill’s Samantha Betts will further strengthen a bowling line-up already boasting Australian Stars Megan Schutt and Sarah Coyte, as well as New Zealand fast-bowler Sophie Devine.
 
“We are thrilled to have signed two tremendously talented young cricketers in Sam and Tahlia and we expect them to play pivotal roles in the Strikers’ inaugural WBBL campaign,” said Adelaide Strikers General Manager, Bronwyn Klei.
 
“We are also very proud to have Websters Lawyers on board, they are a progressive Adelaide-based law firm that know the importance of being prepared to break with tradition and change the mindset about how lawyers work with their clients.”
 
As the Adelaide Strikers’ first ever WBBL Principal Sponsor, Websters Lawyers’ Managing Solicitor Michelle Crichton believes this is the perfect partnership.
 
“As a genuine South Australian firm, Websters Lawyers are pleased to be the Principal Sponsor of South Australia’s own WBBL Adelaide Strikers,” said Crichton.
 
“We value the opportunity to contribute to our community by supporting our local professional sporting women so as to enable them to reach their full potential.
 
“The team at Websters Lawyers are passionate about the BBL so we jumped at the chance to throw our support behind the WBBL and we think the Strikers are going to have a great season following the Breezair SA Scorpions’ WNCL title win last weekend.”

The Adelaide Strikers begin their rebel WBBL|01 campaign on Saturday 12 December against the Hobart Hurricanes at Aurora Stadium, Launceston.
 
Adelaide Strikers WBBL squad: Samantha Betts, Sarah Coyte, Sophie Devine, Lauren Ebsary, Stacy-Ann King, Tahlia McGrath, Tegan McPharlin, Shelley Nitschke, Bridget Patterson, Hannah Perry, Alex Price, Megan Schutt, Sarah Taylor, Amanda Wellington.

HOT ENOUGH FOR YA!

It was a very hot weekend which saw junior grades and the B grade womens called off.

The As game was rescheduled to 10 am to dodge the worst of the heat…..

We did – my car thermometer read 47 as I drove out of Price!

We made 42…. They got them in the sixth over.

We saw three players recently named in the Adelaide Strikers Women’s team – Megan Schutt, Sarah Coyte, Alex Price and our new player from the West Indies Stacy Ann King.

We welcomed to Stacy Ann King who joined us for a few games between her Adelaide Strikers commitments.

Stacy was born in Trinidad and has joined the Strikers – she is a hard hitting middle order batter and a left arm medium quick.

Salomae Haselgrove made 3 in her debut for the As.

Our very successful Reynella Oval coaching finished Saturday thanks to Brandi for her efforts with the Girls Only group.

TAHLIA PART OF NATIONAL TITLE !

29 November 2015

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Taylor ton guides Scorpions to WNCL glory

SACA Media

A sensational innings from Sarah Taylor has powered the Breezair SA Scorpions to victory in the Women’s National Cricket League Final at Hurstville Oval today.

Setting the Breakers 265 for victory, the Scorpions got their first breakthrough in the tenth over when Haynes was run out by Lauren Ebsary for 15.

Pressure bowling from Sarah Coyte (1/24) and Megan Schutt (1/45) led to the dismissal of Breakers captain Alex Blackwell (6) who was also run out, and when Alyssa Healy fell to former teammate Coyte, the Scorpions were well and truly in the game.

Ellyse Perry (20) and Nicola Carey (32) both got starts as they looked to get their side back on track, but it was too no avail as continued pressure led to their dismissals.

Terrific late hitting to Naomi Stalenberg (58 from 38) gave the Breakers hope, but when she fell it was all but over for the home side; the Scorpions finishing off the tail and claiming their first national title since 1994/95.
Earlier in the day the Scorpions won the toss and elected to bat first in a replay of last year’s final.

The loss of Tegan McPharlin (4) early did little to hinder the Scorpions, as Sarah Taylor joined Bridget Patterson at the crease.

Taylor was in great form early, racing to 50 off just 47 balls and continued to find boundaries with ease on her way to a blistering 110 (106 balls).

Patterson, 20, showed great maturity and grit at the other end, compiling 74 runs of her own and combined with Taylor for a 181-run partnership.

Youngster Lauren Cheatle (2/44) and Lauren Marsh (2/41) were the multiple wicket-takers for the Breakers.

The opinions expressed here are the views of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of Cricket Australia.

Congrats Bridee

ELLA AND SERENA RECORD STAND..... T Mac first 50 for SA – puts SA in gf

The highlights of this weekend came from our rapidly improving B grade and the match winning performance of T Mac at state level.

               T Mac and Ella PBs this weekend!

The B grade recovered from a precarious 5/11 in the fourth over to a record breaking 6^th wicket unbroken stand of 77 to finish batting our overs.

On the way Ella Wilson achieved her PB of 48 no (previous 18) and Serena Ongley scored her PB of 13 no (previous 1 no).

Batting first Kensi Browns made 2/134 with Ella and Kylie taking the two wickets.

We were soon in trouble losing two wickets in the first over and three more in the fourth.

Ella’s innings contained 5 fours, took 55 balls, 81 minutes and she batted all but four balls of the innings.  Her fours came from strongly hit pull shots through square leg (including three in five balls), but her deft cuts and back foot drives were a feature.  She ran well with Serena, converting ones into twos well. 

Serena played her longest innings – 65 minutes, with two fours and faced 46 balls.

In the state game at Railways Oval Tahlia McGrath followed up her good performance last week with us to score her first 50 for the Scorps.  She came in at 3/15 with the loss of Captain Lauren Ebsary (and with Paterson and Taylor already out).

She put on 45 with Tegan McPharlin for the fourth wicket and was dismissed for 58 after a 99 run stand with Sarah Coyte.

She faced 118 balls and hit 3 fours on a slow running Railways Oval.  The innings lay the foundation for a busy last five with SA making 32 runs to end up with 191. We dismissed the Tassies for 160.

Tahlia’s 58 were the Highest Score at Railways Oval for the two games over the weekend the next best being 40 from Burns of Tasmania.

The Scorps head off to Sydney next weekend to take on NSW (who have won the last 11 titles!)  Good luck team.

The As made 49 with Rachael top scoring with 9.  They score them three down.
Alicia bowled well being "on a hat trick".

We have a weekend off with the Test Match next weekend.  Don’t forget the annual Stingrays Cup December 5 at the club.

T Mac back in form.... Kylie wows em in the Bs

The As ran West Torrens to two wickets and the Bs continued their improve efforts with 42 and 12 run losses.

T Mac was back to Rolton medal winning form.

 The As put up a far more competitive effort against West Torrens – having been well beaten in the T20 recently we ran the Eagles to two wickets.

We made 4/161 off our 50. T Mac was back in good form with her best score for the season.  Her opening partnership with Rachael saw us 63 in the 17^th.  We were well set at 1/103 in the 30^th over but were held to only 45 runs off the last 20 overs has West Torrens bowled and fielded very well.

We took four early wickets to have them 4/78 in the 19^th. State Under 18 rep Brooke Harris made 50 and Tayla Gordon 24 to see the Eagles steadyto be 5/136 in the 32.  T Mac took two wickets in her second spell to have them 8/148. But state captain Lauren Ebsary ( batting down the list) and tailender Ainslee Knight saw them home.

T Mac had her best bowling for the season with 4/17 and Brandi Ongley took two wickets.

The Bs took their only wicket in the first game with a ball to spare and were set 152.

Kylie came in late making 48 off 23 balls with 7 fours and 4 sixes (scoring ALL RUNS in boundaries.)

The Bs got within 42 runs in game one and were within 12 in the second

The Bs continued their steady improvement with  Eesher Degvan scoring 19 and 15 in the double header games.

Ella Wilson scored 12 no and 7 in

In the second game Tayla Smith took two wickets in three balls early in the Northern innings. 

Kylie provided the fire works in our innings with 41 off 23.  She was well supported by Ella (24 run stand) and 47* with Salomae.

On the school front:        

 Ella, Kaitlyn Heath and Chelsea all had games on Adelaide Oval and Adelaide Oval No 2 last Wednesday.  Reynella East finished 10 out of 13.

This week we have games down south with the As 12 noon at Bice and the Bs 1pm at Christies.  We are working with SACA to see if we can change to a double header.

We wish T Mac all the best with her state commitments at home next weekend.  Saturday’s game is at Railways Oval and a win should see us back in the race for top spot.

MUM'S RULE... AS STRIKE PORT IN RED HOT FORM - CHLOE A GRADER NO 41

This week saw the Bs bat their 20 overs for 85.  Kylie was at her belligerent best with 61 no off 34 balls (7 fours and 3 sixes).

But the support of the Wilson family assisted in taking the score from a perilous 6/29 in the 11^th over to 85 in the 20^th. Daughter Ella put on 22 for the 6^th wicket and Mum Jacqui added 34 (unbroken) for the 7^th.

We thank Jacqui and Mandy Seccofein (sub fielder for the Bs) who made sure we had a team in the Bs.  Our other regular Mum Kerry Davis, who is a regular, made her first runs for the season.

Eesher Devgan had her best game for the Bs hitting her first boundary and bowling four tidy overs for 14 runs.

The As came up against current favourites Port.  Former state player Tamara Clapton 61 and current state players Amanda Wellington (100) and Sam Betts (102 no) put us to the sword scoring 3/316.

Alecia Holt was the pick of the bowlers with her first eight overs going for 28.

We batted into the 48^th over.

Chloe Dancer, after some very encouraging form in the Bs, became Capped Player 41.  She fielded well and kept our Ports best bowlers for nine overs.  The bowler who eventually dismissed her was ex Australian Emma Sampson.

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Milo Breaks continues to break  all records

Our final numbers for Milo are an incredible 139.  This does not include 14 girls who are part of our Girls Only Program working with Brandi.

Message from our organiser Trish Pinder

Our registered number is now 139 of which 113 are newcomers and will 
probably return in Term 1 next year.
To give you an idea of our reach, these are the non-local suburbs from 
which they come: Ascot Park, Moana, Christie Downs, O'Sullivan Beach, 
Seaford Meadows, Port Noarlunga probably because we are the only 
southern centre offering Saturday mornings. i.e. they are bypassing 
centres run by the Noarlunga CC, McLaren Vale and Aldinga to come to 
Reynella.

Just a quick note on some feedback I am getting from our start last week:
A Braeview dad who is an OzKick coach for the Reynella FC was blown away 
by our numbers - he thought his 54 for football was good!
Another mum whose boy was there on a Come N Try basis, hesitated when he 
saw the group, for about 1 minute, then dived in and loved every minute.
He consequently signed up.
Plus a mum, whose girl was sick but will come out this Saturday for 
Girls Only, heard from another mum that we had huge numbers and said 
"Wow"!!

Bs outscore As, Salomae wicket with first ball in a game! Milo Breaks all records

The Bs continue their steep learning curve making 62.  Kylie topscored again making 23 off 18 (with her first six for the season!)  But it was Chloe Dancer who had her best game for the club.

She opened the batting and bowling.  She batted well into the 17^th over making 8.  It was her patience, strong defence and good running which were a feature of her 48 ball stay at the crease.  She also took a wicket in her second over.

Salomae Haselgrove achieved a unique highlight with her FIRST WICKET WITH HER FIRST BALL in a match! Kylie taking a smart catch at square leg.

The As got off to a good start with a wicket in the first over – but a 105 run stand between Under 18 state reps Tait Mackrill and Brooke Harris took the game into the 14^th over with the Eagles one-down. They made 130 with Alecia Holt being the most economic of our bowlers with 1/13 off four hove with a maiden.

We batted our overs for 48.  Rachael making 13 and carrying her bat.

Our very successful Milo IN2 Cricket Program at Reynella Oval broke our own and state records for the number of participants. (Previous best 65!)

We had over 120 youngsters involved in the Milo Program and the Girls Only games last weekend.

Our SACA rep   Andrew Edwards  tells us there are 140 at Mt Gambier but they are split over two days.

                                                      Our fantastic helpers 

We have 11 coaches involved in the program which involves us coaching Year 1 and 2 students in the skills of the game.

Happy Birthday to all those who have birthdays in October and November.... to many to mention!

ELLA CARRIES BAT

Sunday saw the As and Bs host Port at home.

In the early game the As started well with 24 off five overs and 48 off 11 but steadily lost wickets to be all out for 74 inside 20 overs.

Tahlia McGrath continued her good form with 40 (out of 62 when she was dismissed.)

Port passed us in the 13^th over.

An interesting sidelight was two members of the Port team.  Coach Emma Sampson is an ex – Australian rep and Naomi Maidment was a former Scorpion player.  Both were coached by Kempey at State Under Age level.

The Bs continued their steady improvement.  We batted our 20 overs with Ella Wilson carrying her bat for 18 no.

She was ably supported by Caitlin Secoffein (2) and Chloe Dancer (4 no).  Ella and Chloe put on an unbroken 47 run stand.

Port scored the runs in 11^th over.

Caitlin took the only wicket.  This was her first wicket for the club. 

She also scored her first runs for the season after 53 balls!!! (Let’s hope the next runs don’t take that long!!!)

 BIG THANK YOUS

Thanks to the A graders who stayed on after their game to assist with the warm ups for the B graders.

UPCOMING GAMES

After the efforts of Ella (Eastern F), Chelsea and Kaitlyn (Reynella East) for their respective Primary schools they will be playing in T20 finals at Adelaide Oval on November 11.

REYNELLA Milo In2Cricket starts this week.

KYLIE IN FORM - CAITLIN IMPRESSES IN SECOND GAME

Both teams started with a loss.  The Bs keeping Uni in the field to the 15^th over and the As were passed in the 12^th.

The As batted first with our reliable opening pair Tahlia McGrath (20) and Rachel Greenshields (12) scoring 37 off the first eight overs.

We succumbed to some clever spin bowling with one of  SACAs top wicket takers last year Shae Daly taking the openers and former Southern leggie Kelly Armstrong dismissing Jess and Donna.

They scored the runs in the 12^th over.

After deciding to take up coaching duties Kylie Rattray scored an impressive 36 (24 balls) in our 62 run score. (She had not played a B grade game since 2011.)

She came in at 4/9 and led the team well.  She made sure younger players including Caitlin Seccofien faced plenty of balls to get used to batting in game situations.

Our player of the match in the Bs was Caitlin Seccofein who batted over half an hour (32 balls) and supported Kylie with a 26 run stand.  She also bowled well having only five runs scored off her four overs.

Our first gamers – Chloe Dancer opened the bowling taking 0/10 off four overs, Salomae Haselgrove was energetic in the field and Kerry did not get a bat, but fielded well. Eesha did not play at a straight one and was given out lbw.

Congratulations to Sanjette Singh who became out 38 capped A grader.

(Caps being given for debut games in the 50 over comp)

 This week we expect to have the As early (12 noon) and the Bs late (3.10) both games should be at Bice.

We start our coaching at Reynella Oval on the 31st October

STINGRAYS WOMEN’S NEWSLETTER End of season

T Mac Rolton Medalist

The Women’s season finished on a high.  Tahlia McGrath won the Karen Rolton Medal for the Best and Fairest player in the SACA A grade competition.

TMac had a fantastic season finishing top of the batting with 590 runs and third in the bowling with 14 wickets.  She scored three centuries during the season and took a PB of 5/19.

OUR NEW RECORD

Rachael Greenshields and T Mac (148) created a new ALL WICKET stand for our Women’s teams of 203 against Port in Febluary – this equaled the men’s opening wicket stand

Tammy’s 100

Although I believe that her Dad was more impressed with this photo!

Three wickets against Kensis!

And named Captain of England….

BBC Radio Kent Sport @BBCKentSport · Mar 12

CRICKET: Kent's @Tammy_Beaumont named captain for @ECB_cricket Women’s Academy squad to play 4 50-over matches and 2 T20s against Australia.

Anna news

Anna arrived home in Dublin safely …. Photo from Mum.

Donna wins Cricket Australia, SACA Volunteers Award and co-winner of Ian Bone Medal.

Recently we were sent news of Cricket Australia and SACA recognition of Donna Clark’s work during the season.

She won the state wide Junior Cricket Volunteer of the Year.

This was in addition to her award from SACA earlier in the season.

Donna Clark won the SACA volunteers regional award for the Southern Metro area.

 Part of Donna's entry included:
 “She is a coach, a volunteer, a member of committees, role model and embraces Cricket Australia’s vision to be Australia’s favourite sport.  She is always keen to pass on her enthusiasm for the game to the next generation of cricketers.....

She willing offers her coaching expertise working with female players in the 10-15 age group.  This gives her an opportunity to get to know the new players and in turn gives them a role model.”

SAPSASA  

In the week before Easter the first girl’s inter-zone SAPSASA championships were held.  There were eight teams North East Metro, Western Metro, Eastern Metro, North East Country, North West Country, Central Country, Southern Country and Southern Metro.  This meant over 90 girls from Years 5-7 were involved in games.

Kempey and Jerry Blair (from Strath) coached the team. We had six girls who had played B grade last season in the team and we introduced five others to cricket during the week.

We used the week to give everyone in our squad the chance to show their skills.  All batters, if not dismissed, were retired after four overs and were given two overs an innings.

Best Performances

Kaitlyn Heath 12 (Top score)   2/6 (best bowling)

Erin Temme 3       1/8

Bree Madder 6   0/5

Chelsea Kennedy 12 no 1/6 also wicket keeper

Ella Wilson 16 (second top score 15) 2/4 also wicket keeper

 Gypsy Schirmer 5 1/3 also produced a beautiful in swinging Yorker

 Zoe Reynolds 2 no 1/0

 Caitlin Seccofien 1 no 1/8

Congratulations to Ella Wilson, Chelsea Kennedy, Kaitlyn Heath, Gypsy Schirmer and Bree Madder who were chosen the trial for the SAPSASA team in late April.

Award winners

Congratulations to Glen Ongley who won our Women’s Volunteer of the Year.  Glen balances the A grade scoring, transporting Brandi (As) and Serena (Bs), assisting with training and his own games at Noarlunga in a very busy cricket season.

Glen also received SACA recognition for 25 years’ service to the game.

(Pictured here with Steve Miller)

A grade

 Batting

T Mac – top A grade batter in the 50 over competition in the state. Three 100s.

Bowling

Third in the SACA BOWLING (50 over comp). 14 WICKETS.

Her 5 for against Northern sealed the Rolton Medal.

Fielding Anna always gave 100% in the field.  This was presented to Anna after her last game.

Coach’s trophy

Alecia Holt (see below under IQ)

B grade

Batting Rachel Dickinson

Rachel played some very good innings this year. Three scores of over 10 with a top score of 21.

Bowling

Bridee Tonkin

Bridee was given lots of chances to bowl – compared with the boy’s grade at Strath.

11 wickets with a best of 3/11.

Fielding

Ella Wilson – Ella was great – either as a keeper or in the field.

Coach’s Trophy Chelsea Kennedy

Chelsea attended almost all trainings.  She is keen to learn and her innings with Bridee against West Torrens almost stole us the game.

A grade Rachael Greenshields – Rachael was part of the 203 partnership achieved PBs with bat and ball and is Donna’s assistant on Thursday evenings with our youngsters.

B grade Ella Wilson

Ella inspired us all with her A grade debut at the age of 11 in Febluary.  She fielded very well in the Bs, bowled and kept well.  Her batting has shown great improvement as the season progressed.  She occupied the crease and was always keen to play shots against any opposition.

I Q (Ideal Qualities) Alecia Holt – Since joining the club Alecia has given us 100% on and off the field.  She assists with the Milo In2 cricket Saturday mornings and was involved in the fundraising and Febluary game.  She has bowled some excellent spells this year and is a great thinker about the game.

Duck award

Serena Ongley – keeping this in the family as Brandi won it last year.

Drop Kick Brandi Ongley

Brandi put in some great efforts to finally win this award!

COACHES REPORT (Barry McGrath)

 We were delighted the B grade were back this year.  This gives our players a pathway to play A grade.  Thanks to Marg and Kate for their work with this group.

Congrats to all of the award winners in particular T Mac for her win in the Rolton medal.

Our three wins post-Christmas were most encouraging, we were in positions to win all of the six games.  The loss to eventual premiers Northern / TTG really cost us in the end.

Congratulations also to the club’s only Under Age State rep Kayla McGrath who played Under 18s.

Thanks to the committee for all their work this year.

 Barry

State news:

 The Scorpions made their first grand final for seven years. They went down to NSW who win their 10^th title in a row.

Tahlia McGrath continued to consolidate her position in the senior state team.   She scored 120 runs for the season with a top score of 32 and took 10 wickets with a best performance of 2/32.

Sarah Taylor became our third state rep. She scored 313 runs with a top score of 58.  As a keeper she took three catches and five stumpings including four in one game.

 Sarah won the McCauley Medal for the best SA player during the season.

 She followed this with Player of the Series award in the England v New Zealand games held in February / March.

Community coaching

Reynella Oval Coaching

Spectacular photos of Reynella Oval from Geoffrey Pinder.

This season we continued our very successful program in conjunction with Reynella Cricket Club.  We ran IN2 Cricket and a Girls Only Competition (Supa 6 Smash) and had two girls’ teams in the Kanga Competition.  We had over 30 girls participating across these three programs. From the feedback we have from SACA this is the currently the most successful junior girls program in the metropolitan area.  The retention of players over the last two seasons has been impressive. One of the reasons for this is the commitment and enthusiasm of our coaches.  They are very good with their drills with the young players and provide significant role models.  It has given our players the chance to develop and improve their coaching and leadership skills.

A big thank you to Trish and Geoffrey Pinder for their untiring efforts to make sure this venture runs so smoothly.

(Our Kanga teams from Reynella Oval.)

We have had Brandi Ongley, Donna Clark, Kylie Rattray, Rachael Dickinson, Alicia Holt, Anna Kerrison, and Jess O’Reilly as our regular coaches with guest appearances from Tammy Beaumont, Sarah Taylor and Tahlia McGrath.

New players:

 We welcomed Tammy Beaumont the Club for the last three games of the season.  She is the second member of the Darren Lehmann Academy to join our club. Tammy reeled off a 121 no in our win over Sturt.  Tammy also assisted with presentations and coaching at Reynella Oval.

NEW PLAYERS

We are delighted that Gypsy Schirmer. Kaytlin Heath, Billie Manuel, Sanjette Singh, Zoe Reynolds and Caitlin Seccofien played their first games in the Bs for The Stingrays.

Please keep an eye out for potential players in the off season.   This season we had 15 players debut with the teams – the best we have ever had.

In the off season

Indoor  

Good luck to all players involved in Indoor comps over the winter. 

  Gary Putland Academy:

For the second consecutive year we were involved in the Gary Putland Academy Trials.  This will give our new players the opportunity to improve their skills during winter and our coaches a chance to work closely with players in their development. Players will be invited to sessions in August at Morphett Vale Indoor Cricket Centre.

Coaching

In fourth term 2015 we will be assisting with the Reynella IN2 Cricket Centre, Girls Only and Kanga Cricket Competitions from Saturday October 17.

This runs six weeks about 8.45 to 10.15.

   If you are able to assist please get in touch with Kempey.

FUNDRAISING

During Febluary we were part of the Breast Cancer Awareness Games evening.  Thanks to Donna, Rachel B Mac and the organising group for a great night.

 

 Volunteers

Many thanks to our loyal group of volunteers, who managed teams, scored, transported, assisted with BBQs, Presentation Evenings and members of the Women’s Cricket Committee. 

Special thanks

Special thanks to the Ferguson family who looked after Anna, Jess O’Reilly who looked after Sarah’s transport arrangements and the Rattray family who hosted Tammy during the season.