Stumps has been called on the junior cricket season
Wednesday April 1, 2009
Cobar Junior Cricket’s major award winners Wade Potter (John Judd and Darcy Obray Cricketer of the Year), Luke Hillier (Payne family Shield – Cricket Sportsperson of the Year), Dale Manns (William Fugar Perpetual Trophy for Team Player of the Year) and Fred McClure (Glenn Spinks Shield – Dedication to Cricket) with club president Roger Mitchell at the club’s presentations at the Golfie on Saturday. - Photo contributed
The Cobar Junior Cricket Association has called it stumps on the 2008/2009 season with final matches played in the Kanga and Under 14s divisions on Saturday.
Golf Club were the Kanga cricket premiers after defeating Nymagee 230—184 in Saturday’s grand final.
Man of the Match, Golf Club’s Blye Dawson, scored 53 of their 230 runs and also took 3/15 off two overs.
Golf Club’s other run scorers were Fred McClure 38, Samantha Hyde 25, and Alex Kennedy 25.
Nymagee’s grand final Man of the Match award went to Mathew Dillon who scored 37 runs and took 4/9 off three overs.
Nicholas Buckman 37, Jemma Dillon 26, Bryan Mitchell 22 and Thomas Jones 22 were Nymagee’s other top run scorers.
In the play off for third place in the Kanga competition, Kerrigundi defeated Colts by just six runs.
Kerrigundi scored 161 off their 20 overs with Jay Ellison 25, Claude Beitz 22 and Callum Rainbow 22 the highest run scorers.
Colts in reply could only manage 155 off their 20 overs with Wyatt Proudlove (18) and Kiriana Sheenan (18) the best with the bat.
Kerrigundi were well served by their bowlers with Jay Ellison collecting three wickets for 15 runs off two overs.
Colts’ best was Taylah Good with 3/29 off three overs.
The last Under 14s game of the season played on Saturday was a very low scoring affair.
Jack Kershaw and Jackson Hourne were elected captains and selected their respective sides.
Jack’s Jelly Beans (Kershaw’s team) batted first and were all out in the 13th over scoring just 57 runs, with best batters Mark Fraser (10) and Sam Best (9).
Jack’s Jokers (Hourne’s team) were looking good and were only two wickets down in the eighth over for 45 runs.
Unfortunately for the Jokers, wickets began to fall quickly and they were all out in the 12th over, six runs short of their target.
Luke Hillier (19) and Ethan Black (13) were the Jokers top scorers.
After the games the end of season presentations were held at the Cobar Bowling and Golf Club.
In the Kanga competition, James Goonrey with 426, had the most runs overall, scoring an average of 35.5 per innings.
He also took six catches for the season. Mathew Dillon with 36.4 had the best batting average for the season.
Bryan Mitchell claimed the most wickets (53) and was responsible for the most run outs (27).
Claude Beitz had the best bowling average (2.04) and was also the most economical bowler conceding an average of 4.09 runs per over.
He also claimed the most batsmen bowled award with nine.
Beitz shared the most stumpings title with Fred McClure (three each). Ryan Pitkin was the only Kanga player to claim a double hat trick in the season.—contributed
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