Super skip: Isabella Sefton high-fives her Kyabram Fire Brigade Red captain, Wil Harrison, who has been dominating the Under 14 competition with bat, ball and field catching.
Kyabram Fire Brigade’s cricketing future is in good hands with Will Harrison, his captaincy of the team’s Under 14 Goulburn Murray “Red’’ team a sign of things to come.
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Three wickets and two catches on day one of last week’s round two match with sister side “White’’ followed on from his opening week’s exploits, which led to victory against Fire Brigade’s third team in the Under 14 ranks, ”Flames’’.
Harrison was not out for 20 and took a wicket in the season opening one-day match with Flames, then on day one of the two-day fixture with White – at Kyabram P-12 College – his captaincy in the field restricted the opposition to 102.
Antony De Pasquale has had a similarly brilliant start to his season for Fire Brigade White, following up his week one tally of 23 not out with an unbeaten 20 at the top of the innings.
He and Paddy Westerveld, five boundaries in a 37-ball unbeaten 25, were the key contributors to the three-figure tally. They had support from Ben Chapman (12) and Archie Sheppard.
Harrison, however, allowed just three runs from his 4.5 overs and claimed three wickets, having a willing accomplice in Charlie Peakin, who produced figures of 3–3 from his three overs.
Tadgh O’Neill (2–5 from four overs) was another of the Fire Brigade Red stars with the ball.
– Kyabram Fire Brigade Flames is facing a daunting total of 227 after 58 extras contributed significantly to a massive day one total in the match with Rochester at Tongala’s Brose Reserve.
If not for Timothy Mawley’s terrific three over spell, whch netted figures of 3–8, Flames may have faced a larger run chase.
Safe: Fire Brigade Red wicket keeper Charlie Pekin attempts to run White’s Lara Hooper out, but missed the return from the field.
Rochester’s Morgan Boyack struck four boundaries and the same amount of sixes in a 48-run tally.
Jasmine and Ethan Greiner both took one wicket for the Flames, as did Nicholas Bargagello and Xavier Dodos.
– In the Tongala and Kyabram match, at the Kyabram Recreation Reserve, the Tongala team chose to bat after winning the toss.
Tongala was 2–128 at the end of its 40 over innings, the scoreline enhanced by the 34 extras delivered by the Kyabram team.
Mitchell Cornwall took only 22 deliveries to score his retired 30 total, while Seth Chantler (16), River Townsend, Cruz Kreymborg (10) and Phoenix Quinlan-Mitchell all faced their 30 delivery allocation.
Under pressure: Kyabram Fire Brigade Flames bowler Joanna Parr and her team were on the back foot against the Rochester batsmen last week. They have a big run chase on day two of the contest.
Behind square: Tyler Robinson latches onto this legside delivery at the Kyabram Recreation Reseve last week as his team set Kyabram a three-figure chase in the two-day contest.
Cornwall struck four boundaries and the only six of the innings to dominate the innings, after Tongala’s season started with a 62-run loss to Rochester in round one.
Keplar Cleveland and Xavier Bice were the two wicket takers for Kyabram.
– In other matches, Moama scored a day-one win by dismissed Bamawm Lockington United for 57 and then scored 3–60 by the close of play on day one.
Echuca Green scored 7–124 against Cohuna Nondies in the other match.
Lean machine: Max Coats puts everything he has into this delivery in the Kyabram and Tongala Under 14 match on Thursday afternoon.
Blue boy: Jordan Reid is a picture of elegance as he sends this on drive into the Kyabam Recreation outfield.
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