With Jess Bennett winning the bat toss, Tocumwal Red chose to bat first against the Katty Tigers in Saturday’s C-grade competition.
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Rory Wills (3) and Joe Barker (10) got us off to a good start before Rory was trapped LBW.
This brought Pete Lankester (61) in with a brilliant knock, retiring on 50.
After Joe was caught, our latest recruit Glyn Matters (1) came in looking solid in defence before an LBW decision brought Abdul ‘Kenny’ Kuniyil (8) in, looking to back up last weeks big score..
Chase Dickins (7) started off well before getting out to a great delivery.
Bennett (2) was caught after batting out some critical overs, with Marlon Webster (5).
Dennis Sutton (7) put in his finest innings with Chace Brunskill (0) and Lucas Baron (0 no) bringing our total to 119.
Our fielding started with Barker (0/13) and Lankester (0/10) both unlucky to break through.
Kuniyil (0/29) and Matters (1/14) backed up the openers well, with Matters getting the wicket we needed to get the ball rolling.
Sutton (2/29) was the pick of the bowlers, getting a couple of much needed wickets.
Dickins (1/11) bowled on the spot and Baron and Brunskill both had a roll at the end.
Katty declared at 4/120.
It was another close game with some brilliant efforts in the field.
A well contested, great spirited game with thanks to Aaron Sheppard for umpiring and Jess and Kim on the scorebook.
~ report by Spida Bennett
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The under-17s team resumed their game against Cobram with two wickets already down after heading into bat the first week.
Jeremy Packer and Rory Shepherd saw the new ball this week for Tocumwal.
Rory was solid and made 11, though managed to see off several of the early overs before falling for LBW.
Jeremy Packer and Liam Sutton combined beautifully to start a strong partnership that would see Tocumwal make short work of the run chase.
Jeremy piled on 47 runs with one six and five fours before he was eventually dismissed for 47, to a catch to Codi Bowden off Murphy Stevens’ bowling.
This left Liam Sutton and Reuben Haley at the crease.
Liam hit a handy 36 off 40 balls, consisting of five fours, to be not out at the end of the game whilst Reuben finished the day on five not out.
This saw Tocumwal topple Barooga, 4/109 (30) to Barooga’s 10/106.
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The under-14s continued their game against Finley.
Finley started the day ahead of the game with one extra wicket in the shed, and 18 more runs than us, but we came out firing.
Ollie East and Archie Chellew bowled beautifully to put the pressure on early, with Ollie taking two wickets to complete an amazing six wicket haul.
One of these wickets was due to a fantastic catch by keeper Archie Matters, running backwards and taking it over his head.
Finley batted well and were stoic with a good last wicket partnership.
Star batter Ryan Bauer ended up on more than 50 runs not out.
Lucky for us, Lucas Grieves and Chase Dickins bowled tightly eventually taking the final wicket to knock Finley over for 101.
With 34 runs still to get and only two wickets in hand it was a tough ask, but Archie Chellew and Archie Matters took the game on.
Matters was punishing to anything down leg side on his way to a fantastic 12.
Chellew then made sure we finished the job and after a slice of luck, where he was bowled but the bails stayed on, he made a fantastic 43 not out.
He was well supported by Lucas Baron who remained not out as well.
We then had some fun with a few other players getting a bowl and bat in both teams.
The game was played in great spirit by both teams, so a big thank you must go to Finley for the great day.
A great effort by our U14s to get a fantastic win.
~ report by Andrew Lean
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