STAND UP all you City players, members and supporters STAND UP!!!!!!!!.

STAND UP & APPLAUD PEOPLE.

Throughout every season there is always highs and lows, this my friends is a something our 1st Grade squad can be so proud of.  After Saturdays out-right win against Wests our courageous 1^st Grade side is sitting in 4^th spot on the ladder with one match to be played before the semi-finals.

It was only two weeks ago at Dick Edwards Oval, our 1^st Graders totally out played Souths in a One-Dayer to earn a spectacular win.

 On Saturday on the final day of a two day match City were looking for big points against Wests. Following a 71 from wicketkeeper Dan Whale, City became the only side to post more than 200 runs on the notorious Dick Edwards Oval wicket last week scoring 203 runs to set up their first outright of the season.

Ben Semmler tore through Wests top order twice to pick up 10 wickets for the match that included a hat-trick.
The day unfolded with Wests resumed at 2-24 but Semmler made short work of them with the help of a slightly damp pitch that was “popping”. The opening bowler took the first five wickets in the first innings before snaring a hat-trick to take the final three as Wests crumbled to be all out for 65.
Adam Cruickshank was the final wicket in Ben Semmler’s hat-trick with Mackenzie Morrison taking a screamer at short cover.

 Wests batsman Cruickshank then had the unenviable duty of facing the next ball as well, as Wests were sent back in and then had the unenviable long walk back to the pavilion as he copped another duck – this time run out after slipping over on the damp surface.

Tait Jordan took 3-19 from his nine overs, but the day belonged to Semmler who bowled City back into finals contention. Wests fell for 117, 21 runs short of sending City back to the crease.

The boys still have some work to do, not quite one point ahead of Souths. City’s captain Simon Toyer praised the efforts of Semmler as well as Whale for setting the win up.

“The last few years we have played dead rubbers at this time of year,” Toyer said.
“It is just great to be playing for something in the final game.”

 

TAMWORTH FIRST GRADETABLE

(Unofficial): Old Boys 91.04, Norths 83.31, Bective 69.84, City United 50.88,
Souths 48.97, Wests 19.13


GOOOOOOOOOOO STAND UP all you City players, members and supporters STAND UP!!!!!!!!.CITY.