Under 12 Sims Sheild – West Gambier v Mixed Glencoe
With the weather playing havoc over the first couple of rounds, West Gambier took to the field for the first time this season against Glencoe at Tenison Woods College.
Glencoe won the toss and elected to bowl, putting the young West side into bat, with only three players from last season.
West opened the batting with Stephen Banks and Saxon Gabrielli at the crease. The two left handers made it to the seventh over before the loss of Gabrielli, being bowled by Mason Crowe for one run.
Mason Crowe and Jasmine Haase bowled well taking five wickets between them in a span of four overs.
In that time Stephens retired on 10 runs, leaving Mason Rosco and Jack Davidson to settle the ship, slowing down the wicket taking for three overs, before the wicket of Davidson run out for 0.
This brought Stephens back to the crease, unfortunately his wicket came only one over later leaving Rosco out for one after facing 14 balls and the total being all out for 41 off 17 overs.
Best with the bat for West was Stephens with 10 runs from 38 balls faced.
Best with the ball for Glencoe was Mason Crowe taking three wickets for two runs, one each to Jasmine Haase 1/8 and Hunter Crowe 1/5.
Under 14 Halls Trophy – Mount Burr v Penola/Naracoorte
The picturesque Mount Burr Oval was bathed in sunlight for the Under 14 match between Mount Burr and Penola/Naracoorte.
Mil Lel won the toss and elected to bat. Some tight bowling by Coaden Taylor 1/5 with 3 maidens and Naga Wright 2/17 saw the visitors off to a slow start.
After the 2 opening batters departed, B.Watson 28 not out and L.Gericke 11 not out put together a well constructed partnership that saw the run rate increase significantly.
Fill in player Apsara Wright 1/19 from the U12 team took the wicket of the dangerous J.Bull (15) who was starting to find the middle of the bat.
Preston Lydeamore lit it up in the field with a direct hit run out.
Mil Lel batted out their allotted 40 overs and finished with a great total of 6/145.
UNDER 17 O’Donoghue Shield – South v Mil Lel
It was a tough afternoon for the South boys batting first with early wickets and slow batting.
A bit of momentum started to pick up with Jed Sims and the Maxwell boys showing some strength soaking up the overs.
The Geary brothers dug in and put on some really important runs for the team.
Archie Milich had shown that he can stand up and change his game to what the game needs and batted really well.
This made it easier for the younger guys in Scotty McBain, Ethan Hunt and Kobe Maxwell to push their side over the triple digit mark after many good spells from the opposing bowlers.
