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Your website winners collect their trophies ALEX Ellerby collected the first www.harrogateadvertiser.net Player of the Month award, in the U-15-U-17 age group after a wonderful month on the pitch for his side Bishop Thornton. He scooped the award for April-May after taking an incredible four wickets in five balls including a hat-trick against Studley Royal. His figures of two overs, one maiden, four wickets for five runs was a phenomenal achievement in itself, but Alex also showed his might with the bat by scoring 51 runs, batting in the middle order of the side during the month. He finished May with seven valuable wickets. “I was fielding at fine leg the over before and I was thinking wouldn’t it be great if I got six wickets in the next over,” said Alex about his performance with the ball. “I’ve never done anything like that before and it was just amazing.” In the U-11s to U-13s 11-a-side category Steven Hodgson from Galphay and Winksley was the lucky winner after an equally impressive month for his team. The solid wicketkeeper has formed a formidable reputation behind the sticks and scored 35 runs, taking one wicket and only conceding 14 extras.
“Words such as solid, steady, supportive don’t sound very exciting but they are apt when describing Stevie’s contribution to the club.” Send your nominations for Junes’s Players of the Month to ackrill.sport@ypn.co.uk
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Birstwith C.C. junior presentation evening held at the Joiners Inn, Hampsthwaite.
Powerful Pannal wins U-15 League play-off final
Unbeaten in the league all season Pannal Pirates took their good form into the play-off final. Batting first on an excellent wicket at Studley Royal, Pannal scored a competitive total of 111 in 22 overs against a very potent Ouseburn attack. Catching the eye for Ouseburn were Jamie Briant 1 for 20 and Ben Jones 1 for 16. Pannal’s total was built on a watchful opening stand of 33 from Chris Hooper (21) and Alex Lilley (19). Then came the telling partnership of the game between James Rawlings (17) and John Hare (35 NO) who both produced some classy shots in combining to produce 53 runs. In the field Pannal made sure Ouseburn had to work hard for every run. Chris Hooper bowled consistent wicket taking balls finishing with figures of 2 for 13. At the other end Alex Lilley bowled with venom and was supported by some excellent fielding. The first change bowling kept up the pressure as James Rawlings and Jon Hare bagged 2 for 13 and 1 for 14 respectively. At 5 for 32 Ouseburn were a long way behind the run rate when Matt Henry struck quickly to take 2 for 8 from 3 overs to secure the victory. A delighted skipper Matt Henry praised Ouseburn for the way they bowled in Pannal’s innings and the way they fielded so well. He put his own teams success down to team work. “Everybody has worked so hard this season on every aspect of their game and its nice to see the lads producing their best form when it really counts.” PAIRS LEAGUE FINALS 6th Sept 2007 U9 BIRSTWITH V PANNAL FALCONS
The U-9s final took place early on finals day before the strong wind had subdued which took it’s toll on what should have been a spectacular final. Birstwith won the toss and decided to bat and started well accruing runs slowly with some excellent running between the wicket, but were unable to find the boundary as Pannal produced some very good fielding. Pannal then managed to put on some pressure by keeping the run rate down with the next two pairs, leaving Birstwith final pair with some work to do to post a decent total and try as they might they found it difficult to pierce the field and some very tight bowling kept the total down to a very manageable 256. Pannal then managed to keep their scoring to a very favourable rate, finding the boundary regularly, wickets kept falling due to some excellent catches, but the runs kept coming. Even the 7-year-olds in the Birstwith team could see the game slipping away and in an effort to claw the game back started to give runs away with overthrows. By the time Pannal’s skipper took the field with his partner they already had a commanding lead and was heard to say “nothing silly we just don’t need to lose wickets”, (Old head on young shoulders), however he then decided to ignore his own advice and went for it, eventually Pannal ended up on 297, a convincing victory. A defeated but not deflated Birstwith skipper Harry Stanford then turned to his team to say “We didn’t do bad for a village team” 6th Sept 2007 U-11 PAIRS HARROGATE V BISHOP THORNTON
Bishop Thornton batted first due mainly to being a man short initially. They managed to slowly build a score trying hard to get past Harrogate’s fielders, lot’s of quick singles having to be taken to try to move the score on. The last pair coming together at a run as their last man arrived for the game. Finally amassing a score of 254. Harrogate started well, but then suddenly lost a couple of wickets, which reduced their score to very close to the target. The final pair managed to edge ahead needing only to defend their wickets in the final over where the loss would have sent the game in the oppositions favour, a massive effort on the final ball from Thornton unfortunately saw the ball go for 4 wides which then sealed the game for Harrogate. A very even and exciting gamefor all involved especially the parents and supporters from each club. Well done to all involved. Finally a big thank you to all the pairs coaches throughout the League for their efforts throughout what has been a very difficult season with the very un cricket friendly weather. More pictures
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