Double win in Round four

Both Indoor teams had very good wins in Round four of the Indoor season.  The seniors broke through for their first win with a convincing 51 run win over Skippers and the juniors had a 49 run win over Flapjacks.

The seniors batted first making 122 (we did not lose a wicket until the 11^th over!!!)  Johnny and Brandi made 24, Donna and Cara 35, Liam and Josh 33 and Thomas and Rachael 30.

We bowled well holding them to partnerships of 28, 14, 17 and 12. 

The Juniors bowled first for the first time for the season holding Flapjacks to 60.  Hannah and Kelly bowled well at the start taking four wickets and making sure their first pair only scored 4.  Their next three pairs made 30, 16 and 14 with Eben taking two wickets in this first over.

We passed their score in the ninth over and batted well to finish with 109.  Hannah and Kelly made 21, Eben and Ethan 32 (their best partnership for the season), Nikki and Liam 25 and Emily and James 31.  Welcome to Liam who played his first game for  the season.

Next week the Juniors have their first bye for the season and the Seniors play at 5pm as usual.

  

Jess O’Reilly wins Award – Both indoor teams go down. Good news from State selectors

 Jess O'Reilly won the annual "Young female cricketer of the Year – Encouragement Award for 2010-11" from the Cricket Lovers Society.  She was presented with this award recently.  Tahlia McGrath won this award last year.  Jess was honoured with the privilege of thanking the Society on behalf of all recipients.  Other winners included Megan Schutt from Sturt.

Indoor news last week saw both teams lose – but some encouraging performances. The Senior Team had regular Thomas Scott back on board – but could only manage 53 in their quest of 136.  Rachael and Cara put on a team high partnership of 31 with Rachael scoring 23 (including a seven.)

The juniors were about 20 runs short of par with 101.  Jessie and James continued their good form with 42 and Armstrong twins made 21. Our bowling and fielding were not quite what they were last week and they passed us with the last pair still to bat.

STATE NEWS

In SAPSASA cricket Kayla McGrath and  Hannah and Kelly Armstrong have all made the next cut for this team.  This 18 player squad will continue to train until the final squad is announced later in the year.

In Indoor news

Jess, Kylie and Courtney have made the state Indoor team (Open) – with Courtney added to this team last week.  Cara, Rachael and Brittney Miller are in the Under 18 team with the three senior players from Southern.  This gives us 6 of the 10 players in this team.

At Southern we recognise the assistance of the Be Active Program set up by the Government of SA over the last three years for their generous assitance with our Girls Cricket Program.

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INDOOR ROUND TWO – JESS AND KYLIE CHOSEN IN STATE SENIOR TEAM. JUNIORS WIN AGAIN!!!

The Junior Stingrays team won their second game for the season with a  convincing 111 – 49  win over Fighting Sharks.  We batted first with James and Jessie making 39 (including one 7), Emily and Nicky made 29,, Eben and Ethen 5 and Hannah and Kelly took us over the 100 with 38.  We bowled and fielded well with Hannah taking a wicket with her first ball (three wickets in all), Eben taking four wickets and Ethan two. Emily captained well and took three catches.

The "senior" scored a competitive 91 batting first, but our opponents The Sharks passed us in the third pair and ran out 20 run winners.

State and travel news:

Kylie Rattray and Jess O'Reilly have been chosen from the Under 18 team to represent the State Indoor team in Sydney.  As well as Jess and Kylie, Courtney Brideson, Cara Allen and Rachael Greenshields have been chosen in the Under 18 side.  Former Stingray (and sometime player) Brittney Miller has also been chosen in this team.

We wish Nuggett and Marg Jude well with their travels during July and August.  They will be in England watching some of the Australian Women's games against New Zealand and England.

Its winter so it must me Indoor

This year we have TWO indoor sides and in keeping with our policy of the last four seasons they are a mixture of boys and girls.

Our Under 12s Southern Stingrays (3520)is Emily Armstrong (captain), Hannah and Kelly Armstrong, Nicky Moyle, Jesse McCarthy, James Scott, Eben Rensburg, Ethan Nicholls-Preston and our reserve Liam Moyle.

Our "Senior" team is Donna Clark (capt), Cara Allen, Brandi Ongley, Rachael Greenshields, Liam Coleman, Jonnie Arnold-Janz, Josh Worthey, Cameron Smith, Thomas Scott and Aiden Zamitt.

The "senior" side had a bye in the first round – but had a good hit out with players getting to know each other.  For our "veteran" players Donna, Cara, Brandi and Rachael it is their fifth year of being involved in this team.

The "junior" side had a good win in their first game.  We batted first making competitive 95.  The twins Hannah and Kelly made 20, Emily and Nicky  21, Jessie and James 33 and Eithan and Eben 21.

Lil rippers replied with 89.  They scored 24, 10, 33 and 22.  In a very tight last two overs they needed 19 off the last 12 balls, 11 off the last over and three off the last ball to win.  We scored a run out off the last ball to secure the six run win.

Well done to all – every member of this team was playing their first game.

Thanks to Tania Scott who assisted with the organisation.

As lose to Sturt in Semi

The A grade put up a fighting effort against current premier's Sturt. 

They won the toss and batted at Park 25 No 1. We held them to 183 – they were expecting 230-240.  We got International Player of the Year Shelley Nitchke early with Marg Hay bowling her around her legs for 15 (last time she played against us she scored 198!!).  The Blues ground out their runs, setting up their innings with 41 and 43 run partnerships for the second and third wickets, to be 3/111 in the 28^th over.  We were able to pet them back to bowl them out in the 48^th over.  Kamani took the figures with 4/30 off six overs and Courtney "cleaned up the tail" to finish with 3/28.

Rachael Greenshields continued her good batting of recent weeks with 17 (PB for the season) but this time we could not build the partnerships around her.  Dayna (12) put on 25 second wicket was the best.

Kylie batted well for 9 and Courtney finished 5 no.  We batted into the 44^th over.

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UP COMING EVENTS:

Don't forget our end of season presentation dinner next Saturday evening (March 25) at the clubrooms with the presentation of batting, bowling, fielding awards as well as the Player of the Year and THE DROPKICK AND DUCK AWARDS.

The Bradman medal for the best player in A grade will be held at Adelaide Oval on Wednesday 23rd March. SACA Umpires votes for individual awards in Women's grades will also be announced.  Full voting will be published here as soon as they are known.

Tuesday March 29 sees the presentation of these awards to junior players and Women's C grade.  Powerade Junior Cricketers of the Round have been invited to this ceremony.

Indoor cricket starts in Term 2 – if you are interested please contact Kempey.  We are looking at two teams this year.  We play Monday evenings at Morphett Vale ICA.

STATE INDOOR NEWS:

We have five (out of 10) Southern players in the SA Under 18 Indoor cricket team playing in Melbourne in July.  They are Jess O'Reilly, Courtney Brideson, Cara Allen, Rachael Greenshields and Kylie Rattray.

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Bs and Cs end on a winning note Amy PB in Cs As finish fourth

The Bs and Cs finished the season on a winning note with 9 and 14 run wins respectively.

The Bs were bolstered by the inclusion of Shari, Nuggett, Donna and Courtney to give them a game leading into next week's finals.

We batted first at Bice and were in early trouble being 4/27 in the 12^th over.  Kayla Staszuk (10) and Brandi Ongley (14) put on 15 and were well supported by Jacinta who made 7.  We batted well into our overs (38) to score 80.

West Torrens started well scoring 22 off the first 13 without losing a wicket  - but could not establish a match winning stand as we took wickets at regular intervals to bowl them out nine runs short.  Our stumbling block was former team mate Jade Ambler who carried her bat for 26 no.  Courtney Brideson took "the figures" with 2/7 off 8 overs – but Brandi took the key wicket of Brooke Harris, Cara Allen who took state Under 15 Hayley Smith and Robyn who bowled ex- Stingray Alex Daly.

Many thanks to Marg Hay who sub fielded.

The Cs registered their sixth win for the year with very good performance over Northern.

Northern batted first and scored 29 off the first seven overs before Ellie Jamieson took the first wicket.  Amy had one soon after to have them 2/42 off nine overs.  We bowled accurately and fielded well to hold them to 26 more runs off their remaining  12 overs.  Kelly Armstrong went for six off her four overs and Hannah and Kayla bowled well "at the death" to only concede seven runs off the last four overs.

 Our batting was dominated by Amy White who scored a PB of 30 (retired).  She was well supported by Kelly Armstrong (19 - after 30 against Northern earlier in the season) and fourth gamer Hannah Baker.  Hannah continued her good form with a score of 10 in consecutive innings.

The Cs finished one game out of the four.

We have confirmed that the A grade finished FOURTH.  We will play Sturt in a 1 v 4 semi final this Saturday.  It will be an 11.50 start and the venue will be confirmed Tuesday.

A GRADE SAFE IN THE FINALS - TIANNA GOLDEN ARM!!! in the Cs

Both the As and Cs had wins in the second last round of the season.  For the As it secured us a spot in the final four (we have a bye next week – but a safer buffer).  For the Cs the win was great but other results did not go our way.  In the Kensington / Northern game the Northern win made them safe.  So it will take a miracle win by Port over Sturt for us to make it.  (Port Cs have forfeited their last two games!)

 

At the time of going to print we sit second on the A grade table with (90.63) points.

 

However contenders for the other finals spots all play next with many scenarios possible.  The big part of the weekend's games was that we won our game very well.

 

We made a club record 8/282 and dismissed Tea Tree Gully for 91.  We earned 19.22 points.

 

Our win was set up by a 40 run first wicket stand between Tahlia (26) and Rachael (15) to set the base for a record 140 run fifth wicket stand between Jess O'Reilly (64) and Marg Hay (60).  The eight wicket stand of  47* between Kamani (32 no) and Courtney )11no put the cream on the cake.  The highlight of Kamani's innings was some lusty hitting off state rep Tamara Clapton 26 off two overs including a six off the last ball of the innings.

 

Donna Clark took a wicket with her second ball to put the Gullies on the back foot from the start, Marg Hay took the prize wicket of Clapton in the fourth over and we took wickets at regular intervals to bowl them out for 91.

 

We await the results of games next week to determine our final position.

 

 

Highlights from the A grade game

 

Ø      The win puts us in the finals for the first time in our second season in A grade

Ø      8/282 was our highest score for our A grade career

Ø      Marg Hay's 60 was her second 50 + score in a row after a PB of 72 last week

Ø      The Jess O'Reilly / Marg Hay 140 run stand was the highest for ANY WICKET in the clubs history (123  Shari Bray / Rachael Greenshields first wicket v Kensington T20 2008-9 B grade) – this is also the highest 5^th wicket partnership FOR ANY A GRADE side this season (SACA source)

Ø      It was our second 100 partnership for the season after Jess and Dayna made 100 against Port in the second innings

Ø      The win by 191 runs was the biggest in our history in A grade

Ø      It was over our arch rivals Tea Tree Gully who came into A grade at the same time as us two seasons ago.

 

The Bs battled hard again batting well into the 36^th of our allocated 40 overs.  Jess Vincent again was the mainstay with a 16 over stay – Nicky Moyle (on loan from the C grade) provided plenty of support – batting 25 overs. Port made 183 with Linda Anderson taking 3/22.

 

The Cs had their fifth win for the year defending 87.  Kayla McGrath scored a PB 32 (retired) receiving great support from third gamer Hannah Baker (11) and Hannah Armstrong (14).

 

The Sturt openers started well with 56 off the first ten overs.  But the drinks break saw an amazing collapse losing EIGHT WICKETS FOR EIGHT RUNS to be all out for 64.

 

The bowling combination of Nicky Koritsa and Tianna Muirhead sparked the collapse with Tianna taking three wickets in five balls to end with career best figures of 4/12.

 

The Sturt girls were pressured by some very good fielding – Kayla McGrath three catches, Kelly Armstrong one and Nicky Koritsa one catch and run out.

 

Well done team!

 

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*** MARG JUDE IS STILL AVERAGING OVER 100 FOR THE SEASON (120 RUNS FOR ONCE OUT!!!)

 

 

The club passes on their condolences to the Moyle family for their loss last weekend.  The B graders all wore a black arm band as a mark of respect and conducted a minutes silence before the game.