Marlborough Express - Weekend Express
Top performances from cricketers
The Marlborough Primary School Gold Girls team enjoyed a fine tournament in Christchurch last week, winning two of five games with all games closely fought affairs.
Beau Clouston had a fine tournament, finishing fourth in the bowling charts with 7 wickets and a best of 4-23, and fourth in the batting charts with 83 runs and a top score of 32no. Katie Templeman was another Marlborough player to finish in the top 10 batters and bowlers, while all players contributed in different games.
The Marlborough Year 9-10 boys also performed well in the Central Districts tournament in Levin, with an opening day win over Whanganui featuring a hat-trick to James Crowe during the first over of the innings. Dane Winstanley had an outstanding tournament with the ball to end as the tournament’s leading bowler with 12 wickets while Teagan Birkett took 4-29 in the close loss to Manawatū. Max Ruffell was 2nd in the tournament batting charts with 221 runs.
On Friday, the Pak’nSave Marlborough women’s senior representative team takes on Manawatū in a T20 game at Horton Park starting at 2pm as part of the CD Shrimpton Trial series.
In first-round games of the SBS Bank senior grade post-Christmas 40-over competition, Wairau Valley earned a hard fought win over Falcons thanks to 69 from Matthew Stretch while Yadwinder Hundal took 5-27 for Falcons.
Renwick came out on top in a high scoring game against Wairau with Andrew McCaa (110), Baxter Croad (58), Rikki Bovey
(121), and Luke Frankland (53) all enjoying the conditions more than the bowlers!
In division 2, there were strong performances from Greg Winstanley (93), Gunn Bath (5-29), Ryan Clark (85) and Ollie Kennedy (96no).
In senior grade T20 action there were wins for Wairau and Renwick with strong performances from Sam Boyce (40), Joe Timms (48), Josh Poole (47 & 3-21) and Kieran Gaudin (3-28).
Meanwhile, third grade T20 competition games continued with Alex Neal smashing a half century for Renwick in vain as Ollie Kennedy replied with an unbeaten 65 to see Celtic home.
In second grade T20 games, Ed Miles took 3-5 for Wairau Warriors, Courtney Bowen scored 45 and took 4-38 for the Boundary Breakers, while Kirk Nicholas saw Renwick home to an 8-run win taking 2-3 from his only over.
Senior second and third grade T20 games continue this week.
Come along to Horton Park on Friday to support the Marlborough Women’s side from 2pm. WK and Harcourts junior grades re-start over the first weekend of February so plenty of cricket action coming up.