Donna, Jess and Kempey finalists for coach of the year

South Australian Coach of the Year nominees

Craig McGown – Southern Eyre CC (Winner)

James Treagus – SACA HP Programs/Adelaide CC/Henley HS

Craig Denning – Southern Districts CC

Jess O'Reilly – Southern Districts CC/SACA Programs

Liam Hennessy -Woodville South CC

David Kempe – Southern Districts CC

Dani Llewellyn – Hope Valley CC/NEJCA

Ashley Evans – Payneham CC/ATCA

Donna Clark – Southern Districts CC

A couple of A grade results and a 12 year old debut!!!

Congratulations to Katelyn Heath who made her A grade debut over the weekend.  Katelyn has been in good form this season with good runs in the SAPSASA games held in late November.

(We wish her well in the National Primary Schools games to be held in Canberra in early January.)

Best wishes also to Ella Wilson who will play in the Under 15 Championships in mid-January.

The As made a creditable 186 against Kensis in their only Saturday game for the season.

Alecia and Rachael gave us a good start with 22 off the first five, but the loss of three wickets in four overs put us 4/31 in the 9^th.

A 97 run fifth wicket stand between Kylie (74) and Kayla (21) took us to 4/128 in the 26^th over.

Kylie made her Highest Score for the season with 10 fours and 4 sixes off 77 balls. It was one run off her PB of 75 made in 2012.

Divya scored a very valuable 20 (all boundaries) at Number 7.

Alecia continued her good work this week taking another 4 fa.  She took wickets in her 2^nd, 4^th, 5^th and 6^th overs to put the pressure on the Browns and have them 5/105 in the 18^th over. But a 70 run 7^th wicket stand took them to the win in the 31^st over.

All games were played at Park 25 this weekend and ours was the last to finish with Sturt bowled out for 25 and West Torrens for 122.

Last week we made 142 against Northern.  Jess score 34 (her top score for the season), Kylie 22 and Rachael 20.

Alecia took four wickets as we had them under pressure in the 24^th over at 6/119, but the former state reps Neesha Iles and Bec Pollard scored most of the 36 runs they needed to win in the 29^th over.

Thanks to the organisers of Secret Santa last Friday and the hard work put in on Saturday night with the club get together.

Don’t forget the WBBL games at Glenelg December 26 and 27 which will see at least three and possibly FOUR SOUTHERN reps (Tammy, Charlotte, T Mac and Tabby).

There is also a game on the TV New Year’s Eve and a stand-alone game at Adelaide Oval January 2. (Elise Perry will be involved in this game!!!)

The Strikers WBBL team had a win over the weekend with T Mac taking two wickets in her first two overs to place pressure on the Thunder batters in the fifth and seventh overs of the innings. She also scored 10 no to see the Strikers home in the 17^th over.

Games resume

The Bs resume with 40 over games for the remainder of the season. We play at Park 25 on January 8.

The As have a T20 game on Wednesday January 11 at Park 25 with a 5.20 start.

A very Christmas to everyone and all the best for 2017.

Xmas break no wins

With the Christmas break coming up neither team has a win this week.

The As went down in tight one by three wickets and the Bs travelled from one side of the metro area to the other to be dismissed for 19 and 15.

Highlights included Amelia Knight taking her first wicket and Hannah Watchmann making five after changing a flat tyre between games!!!!

Divya made 10 and took a wicket in her senior men’s debut. She was part of a 29 run partnership with captain Steve Miller who carried his bat for 123 no…. well done Steve.

One win one loss for WBBL Strikers with a 14 wicket win on Saturday and a seven wicket loss on Sunday (with three balls to spare)

Charlotte Edwards    1 in game one    31 off 28 in Game 2

T Mac              11 and 0/19 in game one        and          16 off 9 including a six in game two (this was off the last ball of the innings!)

Tammy Beaumont     2 game one and    20 off 23 in game two.

Don’t forget practice at five this week and a BBQ Xmas tea after training…. Bring a Secret Santa gift.

THE DREAM TEAM….

Southern with FIVE INTERNATIONAL PLAYERS

There is not to often we have FIVE international players in Stingray colours…..

CHARLOTTE EDWARDS…. TAMMY BEAUMONT (England) …. TAHLIA MCGRATH (Australia)….. DIVYA RAWAT SAXENA (Canada)…. and KYLIE RATTRAY (Australia INDOOR)…  all international players …..and TABBY SAVILLE  (Strikers squad)…. What a Dream team!  It’s a pity we were washed out!!!!]

  Tammy Beaumont was Player of the Series England v Pakistan in June 2016 with scores of 70, 104 and 168. She was only the third English player to score 150 in an ODI.

 Tammy is preparing for the WBBL and played with us two seasons ago.

And Charlotte Edwards

                 Mat       Inns       NO         Runs      HS           Ave        BF           SR           100         50           4s            6s                            

Tests     23           43           5              1676       117         44.10                                     4              9                                                              

ODIs      191         180         23           5992       173*      38.16                                     9              46                                                           

T20Is      95           93           14           2605       92*         32.97     2436       106.93   0              12           338         10                           

 And our own TMac who tells me she had a great time last week in Coffs Harbour representing Australia for the first time.  She said she batted against two very good leggies who were bowling to well set fields…..Her aim was “to score a run a ball in the last three overs….” 

To our B graders…. Does this sound familiar???

We wish all our Strikers reps well in their forthcoming games…. They play their first games in Adelaide at Glenelg starting Boxing Day.

Our involvement in Milo In2 Cricket finished last Saturday morning. We still have the most unique set up with THREE PROGRAMS running at Reynella Oval (Milo, Kanga and our Girls Only program.)

Thanks to our coaches headed by Donna Clark and including Kempey, Josh Waldhuter, Alicia Holt, Rachel Dicko, Cara Allen, Brandi Ongley and Erin Temme.

The Bs played six overs before conditions became to treacherous and the rain set in.

This week the Bs have two games at Park 25 to complete their first half of the season and the As have a 50 over game against…. at a venue to be decided (this was to be a country round.)

A Couple of wins Brandi does a Tanner and Ella's first A grade wicket

B Grade captain Brandi Ongley produced a captains innings with a Captain’s finish to give the Bs their first win for the season.

Batting second in quest of 118 (16 overs) Brandi hit a six off the second last ball to give us a win.  (Last year A grade captain Sean Tanner hit six to give us our first A grade premiership!!!)

In sweltering conditions the they made 2/118 with Brandi taking the only wickets in her first and last spell.

We started well with 50 up in the seventh over.  Divya provided a quick came innings with 18 at just better than a run a ball. But in the closing overs Brandi took control of the game.  In that time she hit her first six, passed her previous PB (44), scored her first 50 and controlled the scoring securing most of the 15 runs needed off the last over.

Amelia Knight gave us a perfect platform to launch with good running. Salamoe (playing her first game for the season) scored a single off the 3^rd last ball to get Brandi back on strike for the last two balls.

Brandi’s second six for the innings gave us the win!

In the first game  the Prospect openers batted into the 17^th over to see them finish 2/142.  Eesher took our two wickets. Divya scored her first 50 on Aussie soil to see us dismissed for 88.

The A’s won their first game with a convincing eight wicket win over West Torrens

Our bowling was highlighted by Ella Wilson who took her first A grade wicket.

The best of the figures was Jess 2/8 with Charlotte, T Mac and Tabby also taking two each.

Tabby 39 and K Mac put on 57  for the second wicket and T Mac and K Mac finished the  job with a 59 run unbroken stand to finish the game in the 28^th over.

T Mac also scored 81 and took a wicket in the state game at Woodville on Saturday.  Charlotte scored her second Scorpions ton in the SA win over WA.

No practice or games this weekend with the test match on

We also have no Wedneday games in the Strikers League.

Reminder Charlotte is speaking at Cricket Lovers Wednesday evening… contact Kempey  if you would like to go…

RAIN RAIN!!!

NEWS

No A or B grade games due to rain.  The Bs were called at 11am Sunday!

Jess’s D grade game Saturday was also rained off.

Thanks to everyone who supported the Stingrays Cup evening… Serena had a great night booting home three winners out of six!!!!

T Mac played for the PM’s X1 against South Africa at Drummoyne Oval in Sydney.  She opened the bowling taking a wicket in her first spell ( caught by Amanda Wellington) and took a further wicket in the middle overs.

She batted Number 3 making

Pacing her innings in quest of 203 at just over four and over she lay the foundation with 30 off 46 balls and was involved in a 58 run second wicket stand with captain Beth Mooney. The PM’s X1 won with 11 balls to spare.

This was the second time T Mac has been selected in this team with last year’s game being washed out.

COACHING

Our involvement in the Reynella Oval Milo In2 Cricket and Girls Only programs continues.

We are coaching many of our B graders with the Strikers Cup competition Wednesday evenings at Woodcroft College.

We also wish these girls all the best with their SAPSASA commitments November 21-24.  Kylie, Kempey and Donna will be working with this team.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Charlotte Edwards will be speaking at Cricket Lovers (East Barton Terrace) on Wednesday  23^rd November.  If you are keen to go to this event please contact Kempey.  Jess, T Mac and Marg Jude have also spoken to this group over the last five years.

NEXT WEEK

This week the As play West Torrens at the High School ( the A grade men have a Saturday  / Sunday game at Bice)  and the Bs have a double header at the Playing Fields starting at 11am before we have a weekend off for the Test Match.

ONGLEY’S RULE!!!!

The Ongley team put on a 27 run partnership as they batted together in the Bs for the first time!!!!

Brandi had a big day out with a PB of 42 and bowling very well 3/22 off eight overs.

Serena batted for over 25 balls again (second game in a row) for six.

We started well against West Torrens taking 4/3 in the sixth over.  Cara swung the ball late taking one wicket and troubling the West Torrens skipper and ex-Australian player Caroline Ward. Brandi took two three wickets in her opening spell to have them 5/37 in the 18^th.

An 86 run stand for the sixth wicket took them to 7/130 in the 36^th over and some late hitting saw them 8/148.

Our aim was to bat the overs and spend some time in the middle early in the season. Brandi and Divya gave us an very good platform taking us to 1/48 in the 11^th over. (Divya is our latest recruit from the Darren Lehmann Academy).  She batted with good aggression and ran well.

A 15 run sixth wicket stand between Brandi and Rachel Dicko gave us a sniff of an unlikely win as we were able to get the runs / over to less than  four.

But the introduction of Jolanda Winson slowed the run rate and wickets fell. We finished 15 runs short.

The A Grade was a similar story where we fell 36 runs short in our quest for 158.

We had Kensis 1/19 in the fifth, 2/27 in the sixth and 3/73 in the 12^th, but a 85 run stand between state squad members Doecke and Pope took the game out of our reach.

T Mac was  the most economic with 14 off her four overs with 16 dots out of 25 balls.

Tabby Saville maintained her good form with 49 off 32. T Mac scored 27 off 23 (including one 6!!) to see us within 73 with eight overs to go. But spinner Shae Daly took the wickets of Tabby and T Mac within five runs to put the pressure on.

This week:

The Bs go back to T 20 format with two games at Park 23 and the As  playing Port at home in a 50 over game.

THIS WEEK’S ROUND UP….. ELLA’S HEROICS

In the Under 14 Whites Ella Wilson scored the winning runs as the boys chased down 136 with three balls to spare!!!!! She also took a wicket.

 She was when she came in we needed five to win putting on the six runs needed with batting partner Dane Moore.

Welcome to  Divya Rawat Saxena who joined the Stingrays this week….This time last week she was living in Canada!!!! Divya joins us as part of the Darren Lehmann Academy.  She joins an elite group including Anna Kerrison and Tammy Beaumont (2014/15) and Kathryn Bryce (last season). She was involved in the Strikers Cup Have a Go last Wednesday working with Charlotte Edwards.

And while on Charlotte pencil in Wednesday November 23 (the eve of the Test Match) for a Q and A with Charlotte as part of the Cricket Lovers (SA) in North Adelaide.  It would be great to have Southern players at this event….The interviewer will be Kempey!!!

Our girls continue to draw praise in the Men’s 4^th Grade.  Men’s A grade captain Sean Tanner passed on the  message from the Prospect 4^th Grade captain who was very impressed with Jess, Alicia and Tabby in their recent game.  3 players out of 11 is not bad…. But watch out for more in coming weeks.

Alecia was top score in the first innings….

Caitlin  Seccafein took another THREE wickets in for her school side in the local boys Primary School competition (keep it up GOLDEN ARM!!!!)

STATE NEWS

The SA Scorpions beat Victoria on Friday (always good to beat the Vics) with TMac taking  1/21 off six overs and  making 35. Charlotte scored  15.

On Sunday we went down to the ACT by 33 runs/

T Mac making 15 and Charlotte one. T Mac took 0/15 in her first spell.

Coaching news

We start Milo In2Cricket at Reynella Oval this Saturday

Strikers League starts at Woodcroft College this Wednesday

GAME NEWS

The Bs had the bye.

The As played in as one umpire described “the worst conditions I have experienced in over 200 games!”

In game one Tabby gave us a great start with 34 off 31.  She showed great “game sense” taking on the field and some powerful drives and sweeps.

Jess (coming off a pair yesterday for the FOURTHS) made 12 and K Mac 13 no.  Alecia played a nice cameo at the end for a run a ball 9.

89 was well under par as it proved with Port scoring the runs in the 15^th.

The second game saw us bat first again Tabby (13) and Jess (28) were the mainstays of the batting. But 74 (all out) was not enough as they passed us in the 16^th.

On the day Tabby was outstanding in the field and Jess showed her excellent leaderships skills with determined games with bat and ball.

Quote of the day “Looks like that weather is going around us….. “ as the sleet like conditions hit us in the face…… from the worst weather forecaster in the world…..

Coming up

Thursday Nov 3  T20 Men’s game at Bice….from 5.20pm.

The Bs have a 40 over game Sunday at Christies 1pm start (11 a side)

The As have a T20 against Kensington at Kensis (1.30 start)

And don’t forget our Night at the Races on November 12.

Welcome Lottie and the first weekend of cricket!!!

Welcome Lottie

The Stingrays welcome Charlotte Edwards to the team for the 2016/17 season.

Charlotte will play games for us in between her Scorpions and Strikers commitments. It was great to see Charlotte at training last Friday and she will be at the Come and Try Strikers Cup on Wednesday at Port Noarlunga Oval.

(From Cricket Australia website…..

Charlotte retired as England captain at the end of the 2016 World T20.

During her 20-year international career, including 10 years as England captain, Edwards won numerous individual awards, with few bettered by her being only the second-ever female recipient of the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2014. ..(she) also won the 2015 ECB Women’s Cricketer of the Year, 2012 ICC Women’s World T20 Player of the Series and the 2008 ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year. She has been nominated for the ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year four times and is a seven-time top scorer in the UK Women’s County Championship.

As a leader, Edwards led England to the 2009 ICC Women’s World T20 and 2009 ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup titles, as well as four Women’s Ashes triumphs, including the 2005 victory which ended 20 years of Australian domination.

 From SACA website

Edwards represented England in 23 Tests, 191 ODIs and 95 T20Is and became the most capped international female cricketer in the history of the game. 

We have had the pleasure of hosting Sarah Taylor, Tammy Beaumont, Anna Kerrison and Kathryn Brice over recent seasons.

Ella Wilson

Congrats to Ella who took 3/25 off 11 overs for the Under 14 Whites.  She opened the bowling at the start of the West Torrens innings last week taking a wicket in her first spell.  This week she took two wickets in her opening spell to see the 14 Whites win by three runs (defending 79!!!).

The As scrambled to 116 – having been 4/5.  Charlotte Edwards topscored with 30, Jess O’Reilly made good runs at Number 8 (26 no) and Kayla McGrath started the season well with 23.

Four ducks…..

Charlotte opened her career at Southern with a six off a waist high full toss from Stacey Oates.

We had the Blues 2/23 in the fifth over, but they passed us 2 for in the 20^th over.

The Bs.

The Bs won their first game for the season with a forfeit from Port.

The second game saw us up against Kensington Brown.

Batting first they made 6/119 in their 20 overs.

Caitlyn Seccafien took a career best 3/18 off her four overs and Ella Wilson backed up her three wicket Under 14 effort with 2/13.

Our batting suffered a similar fate to the As with the loss of early wickets. At one stage we were 3/5. Sundus Rasa (7) and Serena Ongley (11) put on 12 for the fourth wicket to take us past the A grade’s 4/5!!!

Serena feasted on the Kensi bowlers again (after a PB of 13 last year) for 11 off 23. She and first gamer Amelia Knight put on 21 in seven overs for the best partnership of the innings.

Amelia batted 42 minutes and faced 23 balls in her innings.  She ran well between the wickets and defended the stumps well to remain not out.

Erin Temme batted 19 balls and showed good defence when she was given out LBW.

The return of left armer Cummings (an NT rep) finished the innings. We were all out for 41.

Congrats to our first games Hannah Watchman, Sundus Rasa and Amelia Knight and Erin in her first game as B grade captain.

This week

1. Milo IN2 Cricket Come and Try Day at Reynella Oval from 9 am. (Many of our players will be involved in this)

2. Our new Strikers League for girls 8-15 starts with a Come and Try Day at Port Noarlunga Oval from 4.30pm…. after that we will be at Woodcroft College Oval.

3. No B grade next week…. We have a bye.

4. The As have a T20 double header at Park 25 No 2.

The first round.... rain... still!!!!

Oh for a fine day!!!!

Round one games were called off due to the weather.

A big thank you to the cooks and organisers  at today’s BBQ.

On the state scene the SA Scorpions had a one wicket loss to NSW and a tie with Queensland.

We beat Tasmania.

Our reps TMac top scored in the game against NSW with….. and was top wicket taker with   3/…..

The late wickets took us within a whisker of a win.

TMac was also our top wicket taker against Queensland.  But it was our international recruit Charlotte Edwards who won player of the match with 100.

In the third game T Mac batted Number 3 making 31 and Charlotte top scored with 59. TMac finished with two wickets in the win over Tassy.

We had three players involved in games on Saturday.

Tabby Saville and Jess O’Reilly made their senior debuts in the Men’s Fourth Grade.  They were part of a win! (this side won two games last year.)

Tabby was second top score with 28 (four 4s), batting with her usual aggression (putting on 55 for the fourth wicket).  She opened the bowling, bowling off spin into the strong wind taking 2/37 off 10 overs (and took a catch), Jess bowled five overs into the breeze for 0/10 and took at catch.

Ella Wilson made her debut in the Under 14 whites, opening the bowling and taking 1/10 off four overs.

This week we the As play Sturt at Price Memorial with state and international reps available.

The Bs have a double header with both games at Adelaide University Number 2.

Congrats to T mac

 Congrats to T Mac

The big news this week was T Mac’s selection in Australian colours. She ventures to Sri Lanka with The Shooting starts in late March.

Tahlia celebrated her  Australian selection with 57 against The Eagles.

West Torrens batted first making 215. 

The highlight was a tight bowling spell from our offie Alecia Holt.  Her first seven overs went for seven runs with the wickets of Johnson and Walker in  three balls.

Figures 7 overs 3 maidens 2 wickets for 7…..

Five scoring shots in 42 balls!

We welcomed back Tabatha Saville – who is now studying at Adelaide Uni and is expected to be a regular over the next few seasons – she took 2/35 and made 10.

The Eagles  were 3/92 in  the 17^th but three 20+ partnerships saw them bat into the 47^th over.

We lost three early wickets to be 3/17 in the 10^th and could not get a big partnership to threaten the score.

The Bs played the second of the Northern teams at Park 25 (niiice!!!!)…. We batted first scoring 94.  We built our innings around Kylie’s 58 off 43 balls ( 7 fours, two 6s)… Rachel Dicko scored 11, Tayla 9 and Kerry equaled her top score for the season.  Eesher, Jess and Serena were part of a hat trick.

We took three early wickets 3/26 – but they took the game away from us after tea – scoring 9/177 off their 40 overs.

Jess Monistach took two wickets in one over to finish with the figures of 3/31.

Ella kept well and took two spectacular catches.

We welcomed Olivia and Alice Lockhart to the Bs for their first games.  They are part of our involvement in the Under 15 competition at Park 25 Wednesday evening.  Jess O’Reilly is organising this group and we wish them well over the next two weeks.

The As play Northern at Bice and the Bs have top team West Torrens at Christies High next Sunday.

The end of year get together is being organised for the weekend of march 11 and 12.  Keep posted for more details.

Bs only..... Jess saves outright for the second week in a row….. Erin’s first….

The Bs had the only cricket for the weekend.

We came up against top two contender Prospect (on the back of an outright win over Kensington Brown last week.)

This week they chose to bat first and try to dismiss us twice.  They made an impressive 227.  Ella was in the game as a keeper with two run outs and a catch and Caitlin Seccafein took two wickets.

We lost early wickets – at one stage we were 6/33 in the 13^th (similar to last week.) Batters 8-11 and Ella kept Prospect in the field until the magic time of 5.50pm.

Ella batted with patience and very good defence for 55 minutes (44 balls), Kaitlyn Heath continued her good form with nine off 15 and Erin 15 minutes (10 balls) to hold up Prospect’s quest.

But it was our “dead bat” specialists who kept the game going until stumps.

Jess and Caitlyn batted from 5.21 to 5.51.  Jess once again showed her patience batting 50 minutes (44 balls) making the bowlers come to her.  It took their best bowler former state junior Mel Smith to get her out – after she had seen off six bowling changes.

Thanks to Alecia who filled in for us – with two players phoning in ill.

Congratulations

Throughout the season we congratulate state reps and excellent performances.  This time we congratulate one of our junior players who has achieved a unique distinction.

Erin Temme became the first coach in our Reynella Oval Clinics  to be part of the program and now take on coaching responsibilities. For the last three years Erin has been part of the Reynella East Primary Kanga Cricket team. On Saturday she debuted as a coach – working with Year 1 and 2 students running the “Shot Gun” game.  Erin has shown leadership potential last year with her selection last year as Captain of Reynella East Primary.

We also welcome Kathryn Bryce and Caitlin Seccafien who debuted as coaches this weekend.

Kaitlyn and debutant Jess to the rescue….. As battle hard..... Don’t forget Tuesday!

The highlight for the weekend came from the Bs.

First gamer Jessica Modistach batted over an hour in her first ever competitive innings and veteran (aged 11!) Kaitlyn Heath showed the essence of Febluary with an inspired 62 run stand in 60 minutes which took us out of outright territory.

Coming in at 7/26 (in the 16^th over) Kaitlyn showed maturity and patience in her PB score of 27 no.  She was partnered by first gamer Jessica Modistach.  Jess’s innings was described by one of the umpires as a “you bowl to me”   innings.  She played the balls on the stumps and let the others go. She took over an hour to post her first run – 39 balls faced.

Sending the Northerners in we had them 4/40 in the 13^th over courtesy of Kaitlyn Heath who took two wickets in her third over (on top of one in her second!)

But they recovered to post a par score of 138.

Kaitlyn was well supported by Dicko and Tayla with two wickets apiece.

We got off to a bad start losing three wickets in the first six overs.

Dicko batted well for 12, but the Kaitlyn / Jess partnership stole the show.

In the As T Mac continued her good for with 29 and 4/21(including the wickets of ex state player Tamara Clapton and current state reps Amanda Wellington and Sam Betts.

At one stage in our innings we were 2/61 in the 22^nd over, but Amanda Wellington 3/15 and Amy Norris 3/3 cleaned up our tail to be all out for 71.

We had Port 6/61 in reply ,but former Australian rep Emma Sampson sealed the game with a quickfire 43 no at Number 8.

Don’t forget this Tuesday – our annual Febluary game against the Boys in Blue at Bice starting at 5.20 or so.

Jess O’Reilly is playing for us and Kathryn Bryce will be representing the police.

Milo In2 cricket starts at Reynella Oval this Saturday.Kaitlyn and debutant Jess to the rescue…..

As battle hard

Don’t forget Tuesday!

As win – T Mac wins second Febluary medal....Bs… oh for a roller

The A grade completed their second win this year with a four wicket win over long time rivals Sturt.

Batting first the Blues were 1/76 in the 16^th over and following the same pattern of the recent T20 game where they finished 5/159 off 20. We took 3/9 in five overs to put the brakes on a big score. Kathryn Bryce (two wickets) and Alecia Holt (one) slowed the scoring rate and meant they needed to re-build the innings.  T Mac took the valuable wicket of Peate to have them 5/98 in the 25^th. Despite a 24 run 6^th wicket partnership and a 25 run 7^th wicket stand we were able to hold them to 138.  T Mac cleaned up the tail with two wickets in three  balls in her 9^th over.

The mid innings work of Alecia 2/32 and Kathryn 2/34 were very important.  Donna took the early wicket of Bartlett and broke the 7^th wicket partnership to have her best figures for the season.

In the run chase we lost Jess in the first over, but for the next 25 overs T Mac and Kathryn put on 90 to set up the win.

Kathryn continued her very good form with 39 ( after scores of 43no,50,21 and 15 in her games for us this year.)

T Mac was back to her best with 74 no (her PB for the season) with six 4s.  The highlight of the partnership was some very good running between the wickets. We lost four more wickets in the run chase but passed them six down in the 42^nd over.

T Mac won her second Febluary medal.

The tale of the Bs was ….Oh for a roller!!!!!…. Our roller over at Christies has broken down…. But the information on the unavailability of the ground was not conveyed to us. The men had a bye yesterday and the ground had not been played on for a fortnight. We offered Port a hard wicket option which was declined.

Don’t forget Quiz night Saturday evening…. and our traditional Febluary game against the Police Blues on Tuesday 16^th.

Bs save outright .....Brandi and Cara save As from …..

The As returned to weekend cricket with Kensis at home.

They struck a rampant Brigit Patterson (state rep) who scored 149.

We took the early wicket of Doddridge (1/15), but Paterson and Sarah Lowe put on 129 for the second wicket to set up Kensis huge score of 5/325.  T Mac took 3/45.

We were in early trouble with the loss of 6 for 40 in the 22^nd over ( and were looking at being asked to bat again!)

But an 18 over partnership between Brandi (20) and Cara Allen (20) took the game into the 41^st over and out of the danger zone. 

Former Stingrays Kelly and Hannah Armstrong were prominent for Kensis, Kelly taking 5/19 and making 20 no and Hannah taking two catches and making 14 no.

The Bs were asked to bat again against Uni.

The batted their 40 overs making 3/175. Kylie took a wicket and figured in two run outs.

Batting the first time Kylie made 18 (2 fours 1 six), Ella batted 30 balls as did Erin.

Erin and Mum (Jacqui) put on 20 for the last wicket to be the best partnership of the innings.

Having faced 23 overs and having 30 minutes to play Uni put us back in.  We lost three wickets in the third over of the innings and a further two in the 8^th but the clock beat Uni in their quest for an extra 10 points.

Erin remained not out in both innings and Caitlin Seccafien scored a PB opening the batting in the second.

Kerry, Tayla and Serena …… pairs.

Don’t forget the next TWO SATURDAY EVENINGS at the Club as we enter FEBLUARY.  There is a game on Saturday evening and the Pink Quiz night on Febluary 13.

ALECIA'S HAT TRICK!

The highlight of the Twilight game was a hat trick to offspinner Alecia Holt.

Coming on in the 11^th over   Sturt were well established being 1/84.

She had state player Alex Price (38) caught by Kylie Rattray at deep mid on, next ball she had the established batter Eliza  Bartlett (25) caught and bowled and bowled ex state player Casey Galbraith to complete the hatty.

The next ball to Annie O’Neill saw an appeal for LBW which according to umpires “was pretty close!”

This was after an excellent B grade performance on Sunday where she was “on a hat trick” with two in two in her first over against Kensi Gold. (First spell 3-2-1-3.)

Sturt made 5/159 off 20.

 We lost Rachael in the fourth over.  Tahlia McGrath “played herself back into form” (her quote) with 38 off 40 balls and Kathryn Bryce continued her good form with 43 no (carrying her bat).  Kylie had a little fun late in the innings with 15 off seven balls. We finished with 3/110.

This week the Bs have Adelaide Uni in town ( head off early as parks will be at a premium!!!!) and the As have Kensis at Bice in a 50 over game.

Bs win - Kathryn first 50 for Stingrays

The Bs won their first game in their own right with a convincing five wicket win over Kensi Gold.

Rachel Dickinson and Chloe Dancer bowled tightly in their first six overs to take two wickets.  This opening up Kensi’s middle order to the guile and cunning of Alecia Holt.  After three overs she had 3/1 taking the game away from the home team. (She finished with 4/5 !)

With the Golds 6/22 they had a partnership of 17 for the seventh wicket and 11 for the eighth wicket. Erin Temme and Alecia cleaned up the tail to see them dismissed for 54 in just short of 20 overs. This was Erin’s first wicket for the Stingrays.

Our fielding was the best it has been all season with two catches to Tayla at short mid wicket (one an excellent reflex!) a run out and a slick catch by wicketkeeper Kylie.

Rachel and Kaitlyn Heath set the foundation with an opening partnership of 35 off the first 10 overs.  Kaitlyn finished with a PB of 12 off 32 balls batting 56 minutes.  Rachel made 13 including a delightful back foot square drive for the only boundary of the innings. Others to impress included youngsters Caitlyn Secoffein (24 balls) and Erin Temme (23 balls).  Erin hit the winning runs in the 22^nd over and now has a PB of 6 no.

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 The As welcomed back Tahlia from Big Bash duties, Kayla from the Under 18s and Bridee from the State Country side.

The  highlight of the first game of the double header was a 68 run partnership from Kathryn Bryce (50) and T Mac (26). They had us 1/81 in the 16^th but we could not capitalise on this partnership finishing with 5/97.

They passed us in the 19^th over with openers Treloar and Mackrill putting on 95 in 18 overs. Kathryn took two wickets in her last over.

Kensington won the toss in the second game and made 4/148. We took wickets in the 3^rd and 7^th over to have them 2/27, but a 121 run third wicket partnership between Dodridge and Doecke took the game away from us.

Cara took two wickets in her fourth over and TMac and Donna took a wicket apiece.

Our batting lost impetus with wickets in the second and third overs.  TMac scored 37 – after 26 in the first game and Jess 14.

Reminders

The As play at Price Memorial on Wednesday at 5.20 with the twilight game against Sturt.

Keep up the good work with the collection of goodies for the Pink Evening / Quiz night coming up on February 13.

A WIN AT LAST ... OR TWO.... DONNA'S 100TH A GRADE GAME... BRANDI OUTSCORES SERENA.. CARA PB IN A GRADE...

At last we broke through for two wins over the weekend.

Firstly the Bs received the news that Kensis forfeited.  They were not the only B grade team to do this over the weekend. This is always a difficult weekend for teams with Under 18s away and some of the SAPSASA players and families still not back from their games in Brisbane.

The As split their double headers.

The first game saw Brandi pass Serena with top scores – her 14 no – combined with Alicia’s 8 no took the score from 54 to 82.  But Port passed us in the 9^th over.

The second game provided the highlight of the season. We celebrated Donna’s 100^th game with our first win for the season!

We dismissed Northern for 98 in the 19^th over. Their openers Britt Perry and Rowe scored 40 off the first six overs; they had 76 in the 13^th and looked set for plenty!  Cara Allen opened up Northern’s middle order taking the wicket of state rep Teagan McPharlin in her second over, opener Rowe in her third and state rep Morrison four balls later.  To top it off she completed her fourth over with the wicket of Mentha.

4/17 gave her a PB at A grade.

Wickets to Chloe Dancer (her first in A grade) a run out and a wicket Kathryn saw Northern all out for 98.

We took 8/22 in the last seven overs.

Kathryn (21) and Rachael (20) gave us a very good foundation with 43 off the first 10 overs. But the loss of Kathryn and Jess three runs later saw us behind the rate (2/46 after 11.)  Rachael and Donna put on 20 for the third wicket – at the loss of Donna’s wicket we needed 32 off 34 balls.

Kylie and Rachael took the score to 81 in the 17^th but we still needed 18 off 23 balls. Kylie was at her belligerent best scoring 22 no with one four and a huge six to give us the win in the 19^th over.

Brandi was very good for 3 no scampering runs and taking on the bowling when needed.

*** Kylie’s six was off the fifth ball of the second last over – we needed seven off eight balls – the six and two off the last ball gave us our first win for the season.

This week sees the Bs at Kensington.  This game may be moved to an earlier time as the Big Bash GF may be at Adelaide Oval.

The As have double headers at Adelaide Uni which will be affected by parking for the Tour Down Under – keep tuned for details on these games!!!

68!

Both teams scored 68 – the As off 20 and the Bs off almost 35.

The As took Sturt to the last over – with the winning runs scored off the first ball.

The Bs innings was highlighted with a well constructed 27 off 56 balls in 95 minutes.  On a slow running Bailey Reserve she hit two 4s. Opening the batting she put on 44 with Captain Tayla Smith (13).  Tayla hit two 4s in her 47 ball (53 minute) stay.  We were 2/52 in the 20^th and were bowled out in the 35^th for 68.  Erin Temme had 40 minutes in the middle for 3.

We got an early wicket with a run out in the 5^th over (1/7) but Phiddion and Newmann took the game away from us passing our score in the 13^th over.

We welcome Mel Koster to the Stringrays for her first B grade game.  We worked out that Mel and Tayla know each other at school etc.

Mel fielded well and had three overs for 12.

Chloe and Caitlin took a wicket apiece.

The As batted first a Christies High.  We welcomed back Tabby Saville (whose last game was out Premiership win!!!) 

Tabby has been playing for the NT Country team this week in Mt Gambier (and played against Bridee!) She is in Adelaide in prep for the Under Championships this week.

We also welcomed Kathryn Bryce for her first game for the Stringrays.  Kathryn is part of the Darren Lehmann Academy.  She top scored for us with 15 and bowled four overs 1/5.

Jess continued her recent good form with 12.

We took our first wicket in the 7^th over and had the Blues 4/53 in the 15^th.  We bowled and fielded well to take the game into the 20^th over.

State news

Ella Wilson has been involved in the National Primary Schools championships this week.

BrideeTonkin has been part of the SA Country side.  This is the first time we have been in this tournament.  The SA side beat the Vics (undefeated until the semi final) to earn a GF berth.

Good luck to Tabatha Saville and Kayla McGrath with their Under 18 state commitments over the next week.