A BIG week of cricket at Monbulk started in fine form with the firsts beating Upwey-Tecoma in the Tuesday night T20 competition.
Match winners included Dave Mackay who took 3/19 and Jason Fraser who smashed a quick 41 not out.
The other highlight of the week was Friday night, which saw the two new under 10s teams play their first matches. They joined two under 11s teams, the under 13s and about 100 Milo in2cricket kids to make for a very busy and exciting Friday night for the Monbulk Cricket Club.
In the senior two day matches, both the firsts and seconds went down to Upwey-Tecoma in tight contests.
The firsts chasing 255 got to 226, thanks largely to a great knock by skipper Shane Cosstick who made 92.
Great all round games in the seconds by Duncan Maher (50 and 4/35) and president Chris Defina (33no and 2/39) wasn’t quite enough, with Upwey winning, 7/174 to 170.
The thirds had another solid win, defeating The Basin (225 to 201) with Greg Hulm (48) and Christian Fraser (42) and young Aaron Gillard (29), making the runs.
The fours were defeated by a strong Waverley Wanderers side with Bob Badgery (42) and Steve Bohun (37no) making the runs.
With seven junior teams all playing this round, there were some great performances spread across the teams, which included:
U17s – Josh Rak (31 and 3/21), James Fenby (37) and Daniel Cleary (31).
U15s – Luke Buckley 3/15. Well done to Aussie Richarson who played in the U14 comp side and played his first game in the seniors thirds, keeping brilliantly.
U13s – Josh Spencer (30no), Ben Grimes (30no) and great all round games to Campbell Dennison and Tahlen Fleischer. Well done also to Ben Grimes who was one of the top scorers in the U12 comp side last Sunday.
U11 Gold – Isaac Hylton-Stewart (28 including two sixes) and Ben Willoughby.
U11 Maroon – Oskar Smethurst and Jack Loveridge and congratulations to all in both U10 teams for playing their first match.
Up-coming functions:
1) Trivia Night – Saturday 29 November, 7.30pm start. All are welcome (Milo parents, Juniors and Seniors).
2) Monbulk Fun Run – Sunday 7 December. Hosted by MCC, community event raising money for new pavilion at Monbulk Reserve, 9am Fun Run followed by 11am MCC T20 (under 30s v over 30s).
