Southwell among G’town winners
SOUTHWELL and Cuylerville recorded impressive victories in the Grahamstown Cricket Board first league at the weekend, defeating Port Alfred and Manley Flats respectively.
The race to clinch the first league title between Southwell and Cuylerville will go down to the wire as they face each other in the last fixture of the season at Southwell.
Southwell have 29 points and Cuylerville 26, so Cuylerville will have to win to take the league title.
Southwell (17 points) can also win the Bathurst league if they beat St Andrew’s in their last fixture tomorrow.
There are several fixtures left for the GCB second league, where the race is heating up among Rainbows (40), Station Hill (38), Shrews (35) and Cuylerville (33).
Cuylerville were on a mission to win with a bonus point when they took on Manley last weekend.
It was, however, not so easy as they had to fight hard for their three-wicket victory.
Batting first, Manley were dismissed for 155, captain Francois van Rooyen top-scoring with a fine 40. He was supported by Andrew Marshall (28) and Bryn Wakeford (28).
Charlie Muir was the pick of the Cuylerville bowlers with impressive figures of 5/25. Taylor Ntukela and James Renton picked up two wickets apiece.
Cuylerville lost early wickets as Manley strived to record an upset, but brothers Brandon (33) and Kyle Handley (32) swung things back into Cuylerville’s favour.
Sidbury posted a huge 313/6 against home side Salem. Salem were eventually bowled out for 162, Chris van der Meulen making 48. Wade Golightly (4/39) was Sidbury’s best bowler. Southwell had a comfortable 119-run win over Port Alfred after making 219/9 on a slow pitch.
Summarised scores: Station Hill 314/9 (Franklin Jacobs 93, Keanen Arends 87, Lyndon Coltman 62, Alvin Marney 40, Chris Japp 4/50, Jamie Bessinger 3/55, Simon du Plessis 2/45); Cuylerville 2nd 210 (Pike 44, Brent Emslie 34, Alvin Marney 3/17, Andy Jones 3/42). Station Hill won by 113 runs Early Birds 43 (Hannes Visser 5/15, Justin Stirk 3/5); Southwell 2nd 44/1 (Harry Dixon 20no). Southwell won by 9 wkts Sidbury 2nd 217 (Hayden Kurten 83, Vinnie 4/32); Tiger Titans 108 (Siya 22, Juandre de Klerk 2/20, Francois Nel 2/9, Jamie McIntyre 2/10). Sidbury won by 109 runs ý Latest logs: GCB 2nd league: Rainbows 40 (10), Station Hill 38 (9), Cuylerville 33 (9), Shrews 31 (8), Kenton 26 (10), Salem 25 (9), Southwell 23 (10), Sidbury 17 (9), Manley Flats 16 (9), Tiger Titans 11 (9), Port Alfred 10 (9), Early Birds 5 (10) GCB 1st league: Southwell 29 (7), Cuylerville 26 (7), Salem 22 (8), Sidbury 25 (8), Willows 17 (7), Manley Flats 10 (5), Port Alfred 8 (7), Makana Sona 7 (7), Rhodes 2 (5) Bathurst 1st league: Southwell 17 (4), Cuylerville 17 (5), Manley Flats 14 (5), St Andrews 11 (5), Port Alfred 10 (4), St Andrew’s 5 (3), Station Hill 1 (5) Central Albany 1st league: Salem 20 (5), Kingswood 14 (4), Willows 11 (4), Makana Sona 9 (5), Sidbury 6 (4), Kenton 0 (3)