Round 16 (14/2/09)

Last weekend started promisingly for the Kingston Crows when they held their XVII Annual Golf Day. As usual the day turned out to be very successful with everyone having a great time. Thanks very much to Mal Godfrey and his team for organizing and running the event and to the North West Bay Golf Club for again allowing us to use their facilities.

Unfortunately that was the highlight of the weekend as all four teams suffered defeats on the field and those defeats have made a dramatic impact on our standings on the ladder in various grades. A and B grade have lost top spot and will now need to win all their remaining games to reclaim those positions, C grade have virtually sealed their doom for the finals while the Under 15s missed out on the finals.

A grade ventured to Blackmans Bay where the Sharks batted first and finished on 9/268. They were able to capitalize on a 4^th wicket partnership that saw them at one stage 3/224. Jamie took some late wickets and finished with 5/43 and Robert Chapman 2/39.

Our batting always struggled, losing crucial wickets whenever we looked like getting going. Only a 45 run partnership for the 8^th wicket between Levi Treptow 45 and Shannon Woolley 21 gave us any respectability as we were bowled out for 161 in the 40^th over. Brett Stevenson top scored with 51.

B grade were also on the road as they took on Longley where the bowlers really suffered as Longley amassed 3/331 off their 50 overs. No bowler made any impact on the day.

Thanks to Jim Murray 53 and Andrew Henley 48 we gave ourselves some sort of a chance but except for 28 from Andrew Downie our tail offered little resistance as we were dismissed for 153.

C grade went down to Slab Road on Sunday needing to win to give them any chance of finishing in the finals. Batting first the boys did a good job batting out their 50 overs and scoring 8/153. Manning Parkinson 36 Dean Heywood 26no and Gab Lefleur were the chief run scorers.

Slab Road were good enough to overtake our total for the loss of 5 wickets. Mal Scriber 3/31 and his brother Zac 2/35 were the wicket takers.  

Lets hope next weekends round of match gives us better results.

"From the Hill"

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