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.