Year 7 Mandeville Tournament

Last week out Country South Year 7 team played four days of cricket at a very hot Mandeville.

Monday 21^st January 2013 - Country South vs CJCA Hadlee

Country South   50/10  (batting not worth mentioning) lost to CJCA Hadlee 165/8 (Robert Sporke, 2-12 Robson Harker 2-12, Taylor Holland 1-14)

  

Tuesday 22^nd January 2013 - Country South vs CJCA Astle

Country South  113/9   (Danny Richards 25, Toby Kars 38, Taylor Holland 15) lost to CJCA Astle  141/8  (Danny Richards 3/10, hatrick, Mitchell Holland 2-21, Jack Price 2-24, Robson Harker 1-16)

  

Wednesday 23^rd January 2013 - Country South vs Nelson

Country South  132/9   (Mitchell Holland 2-11, Jesse Frew 1-3, Robert Sporke 1-5, Robson Harker 1-8, Caelum Betteridge 1-7, Jack Price 1-10, Liam Mason 1-11,)  beat Nelson 86/10    (Jesse Frew 30, Caelum Betteridge 27, Robson Harker 18, Toby Kars 16)

  

Thursday 24^th January 2013 – Country South vs Country North

Country North  168/9    (Taylor Holland 3-31, Robert Sporke 2-10, Robson Harker 1-5, Mitchell Holland 1-13, Danny Richards 1-10, Liam Mason 1-17)  beat Country South 66/10     (Danny Richards 13, Toby Gross 12)

Draw for February 2nd

Section 1 (note that this section starts at 8.30am now – except crossover game with S2)

Leeston-Southbridge                V             Weedons Dragons                           at            Leeston Domain

Weedons Outlaws               V             Lincoln                                                  at            Brookside Park 3

Darfield                                V             Kirwee                                                  at            Darfield Domain

Weedons Bulldogs                     V             S2 Weedons Panthers                   at            Weedons Domain 1

Section 2

Section 2a

Tai Tapu                    V             Weedons Renegades                     at            Waihora Domain 1 (Tai Tapu)

Weedons Patriots     V             Lincoln                                                  at            Lincoln Domain Artificial

Weedons Panthers        V             S1 Weedons Bulldogs                     at            Weedons Domain 1

Section 2b

Darfield                             V             Kirwee                                                  at            Darfield High School

Weedons Crusaders          V             Banks Peninsula                               at            Little River Domain

Leeston-Southbridge           V             Sheffield-Sth Malvern                   at            Sheffield Domain

Section 3

Sth Malvern                   V             Tai Tapu                                               at            Glentunnel Domain

Banks Peninsula           V             Kirwee                                                  at            Kirwee Domain Artificial

Weedons Keas             V             Lincoln                                                  at            Lincoln Primary School

Darfield                    V             Leeston-Southbridge                     at            Southbridge Domain

Weedons Kiwis            V             Diamond Harbour                            at            Diamond Harbour Domain

Section 4

Springston               V             Weedons Tuis                                   at            Springston Domain

Weedons Wekas           V             Lincoln                                                  at            Brookside Park 1

Sth Malvern                   V             Kirwee                                                  at            Kirwee Domain Grass

Leeston Southbridge     V             Banks Peninsula                               at            Ellesmere College Grass 1

Weedons Moas                                bye

Year 8 Quad Tournament

Last week the Year 8 Canterbury Quad tournament was held and Canterbury Regions (basically the Canterbury Country team) was unbeaten in their three 50 over matches. Some tidy bowling was backed up with some excellent batting.

Christchurch A 177 (B Dickie 54, W Wroe 2/15, T Bridgman 2/15, M Power 3/31, C Sidey 1/11, N Cook 1/14) lost to Canterbury Regions 179/6 (W Hamilton 45, J Mariu 63*, E Paterson 20) at Heathcote Domain

Christchurch B 138/9 (S Abbot 22, F Macintosh 23, E Paterson 3/16, M Power 2/18, N Cook 2/11, M Carston 1/16, J Mariu 1/13) lost to Canterbury Regions 140/2 (W Hamilton 54*, M Power 51*) at Dudley Park

South and Mid Canterbury Combined 154/8 (C Grace 67*, O Redfern 33, W Wroe 5/30, J Mariu 1/16, E Paterson 1/13, M Carston 1/14 lost to Canterbury Regions 155/2 (J Mariu 58*, E Paterson 45) at Leeston Domain

Josh Mariu bowls while Michael Hughes waits at keeper

Year 6 Mandeville Tournament

Last week the Year 6 Canterbury Regions tournament was held at Mandeville. Unfortunately two of the days were washed out. Country South did will in their two games and finished with the most points.

Country South 188/6 (Fraser Buckley 44, Sam Clarke 38*, Ryan Hughes 23, Jesse Frew 19, Connor Hotton 15) beat Christchurch Astle 126/8

Country South 103 (Ryan Hughes 17) beat Christchurch Hadlee 74 (Connor Hotton 3/7, Jesse Frew 2/1)

South Island Primary Tournament

The Canterbury Country Primary team had a very successful South Island Tournament finishing second to Christchurch after five extremly hot days. A draw against Otago Country where the they successfully blocked out for a couple of hours meant that Country relied on Nelson to upset Chrishurch on the last day to take a share of the tournament. Unfortunately, Nelson were not able to do this. Still, it was a successful tournament with first innings wins over South Canterbury, Marlborough, Mid Canterbury and West Coast and the draw against Otago Country. The batting was very good throughout the five days with only 20 wickets being lost through these games (as oposed to the 43 wickets they took). There was some good consistent batting from Will Hamilton and Josh Mariu and consistent spin bowling from Nathan Cook and Charlie Sidey. Will Wroe was the pick of the pace men with 5/22 being his best return. Will also made a crucial 39 on the first day to get the innings moving on a slow pitch. The other south players contributed well. Edgar Paterson steadied the ship in four innings with long innings also taking some good catches and making a good run out. Michael Hughes shared the keeping duties and took some stunning catches and Michael Carstons bowled tidy opening spells, chipping out some good batsmen.


Will Wroe blasts it in against South Canterbury



Day 1: South Canterbury100 (C Sidey 4/14, W Wroe 2/12) and 9/1 lost on first innings to Canterbury Country 122/7 (W Hamilton 21, J Mariu 20, W Wroe 39; B Aitken 3/40)

Day 2: Marlborough 157/7 (H Murphy 44*, J Mariu 3/36) lost on first innings to Canterbury Country 161/4 (J Mariu 57*, R Mariu 43)

Day 3: Canterbury Country 154/6 (W Hamilton 31, M Power 28) drew with Otago Country 114/9 (B Laing 28, W Wroe 5/22)

Day 4: Mid Canterbury 160/8 (B Niles 40, G Hunt 26, L O’Connor 41; C Sidey 3/15, N Cook 2/23) lost on first innings to Canterbury Country 171/2 (W Hamilton 23, J Mariu 57*, H Sidey 52*)

Day 5: West Coast 153 (J Ryder 32, R Dhakal 66; N Cook 4/39, W Wroe 2/15) & 41/3 lost on first innings to Canterbury Country 167/1 (W Hamilton 87*, J Mariu 35*, E Paterson 21)

There were also four Country South boys in action for the West Coast. Tim Bridgman had a great run of batting (36, 53* & 49); Tim Hauschild picked up 2 wickets in each of the first 4 matches; Jack Ryder took 3/9 against Southland Country and hit 32 against Canterbury Country and Lachie Stove picked up 2 wickets against North Otago.