Last weekend’s Round 14 matches in the HCCA saw the Kingston Crows A grade enjoy the bye, B1 recorded a strong victory at home against Margate, B2 won their match against the Southern Tigers by virtue of a forfeit while C2 had a reasonably comfortable win at Woodbridge. All our teams are rostered to play in Round 15 with A grade at home to Longley, B1 at Slab Road, B2 at Snug and C grade at home to North Huon on Sunday.

In B1 Margate batted first but were always in trouble after being 1/0. Their situation worsened when they lost 3 wickets for 1 run to leave them 5/56 and didn’t improve when they were 7/72 in the 27^th over. Their batsmen then knuckled down and although unable to boost the run rate they did bat out their 50 overs finishing 9/140.

All the Crows’ bowlers proved to be extremely economical with Leg spinner Jason Jones 1/10 off his 10 overs being a classic example. Heath Lovell 2/22, Scott Sward 2/28 and Shannon Woolley 2/37 were the most successful of the bowlers. James Murray and David Bain both took fantastic catches.

Geoff Freeman 66 with 9 4s and 1 6 and Levi Treptow then added 112 for the first wicket as the Crows reached their target in the 24^th over for the loss of only 2 wickets. Heath Lovell hit out at the end to finish 24no.

As mentioned B2 were not required to take the field.

On Sunday C2 travelled to Woodbridge where the home side batted first and made 141 with two of their batsmen making 106 of those. Richie McInnes took career best figures of 5/29 and regular wicketkeeper Daniel Woodhead took 3/39.

Led by Daniel continuing his recent good batting form and making 51 we were able to overtake Woodbridge’s score for the loss of 3 wickets. Gab Lefleur scored 30 and Richie completed a great match finishing 30no.

On Friday 5^th February the Kingston Crows held their 19^th Annual Golf Day at North West Bay. The day was sponsored by ND & LL Vince Plumbing and their No. 2 team of Jason Wicks, Jamie Knott, Gerard Denton and Ben Hilfenhaus were the winners of the gross award finishing 10 under par. The Club’s major sponsor Laminex won the nett. As usual it was a terrific day and we again extend a big thank you to John Harris and the North West Bay Golf Club for allowing us entry to their course. Mal Godfrey and his team of helpers were outstanding in the way they ran the day. The success of the day depends greatly on the numbers who participate and we are very grateful to all the teams that entered with special thanks to all the sponsored teams. We are extremely fortunate that Nigel Vince took up the option to be the naming rights sponsor of the event.

After the events on Friday I would suggest that the A grade players enjoyed not having to play cricket on the Saturday.

“From the Hill”