News Update – 23rd July 2009

Congratulations to Fergus Bailey, Oliver Bayliff, Joe Martin , Matt Walker and Johnny Whitehead who have been representing Lancashire North East in the Lancashire Festival from which the Lancashire u16 squad will be selected .

Johnny Russell is still unavailable due to an ankle injury

Senior Results

LHCC 2XI- 209-9 East Lancs 2XI – 54-all out

Johnny Whitehead 91* Matt Marquis 5-19
Matt Doughty 48 Fergus Bailey 2-0
Fergus Bailey 25 Matt Walker 2-14

An 82 opening stand and 79 third wicket stand saw the home side amass a big total. A strong East Lancs team never came to terms with Matt Marquis’ seamers and were 19 for 7 at one stage

SYCAMORE FARM SPONSORED JUNIOR RESULTS

Darwen u 17 – 69-7 LHCC u 17 – 71 for 0

Sam Ryding 4-2 Fergus Bailey 41*
Joe Martin 20*

Darwen had a couple of their top players missing and were no match.

LHCC u15 Dolphins – 139-1 Rishton u15 – 79-4

Dec Bailey 52* Joel Shields 2-24
Ismael Khalil 50*
Brinley Anderson 23

Maiden 50s for the two u14 batsmen

Longridge u13b – 271 -1 LHCC U13 Tigers – 264-1

Best bowling James Ridehalgh Danny Turner 12*
Conor Doherty 10*

Despite the defeat this was a tremendous performance in dreadful conditions. Danny Turner continues to impress following his introduction to the team

Accrington U13 256-5 LHCC Cougars – Abandoned

Tom Flanaghan 2- 21

Rained off

LHCC U11 Koalas – 201-6 Burnley U11a – 310-0

Top scorer Oliver Holmes, best bowling Nick Greenwood

Despite the heavy defeat there was much to commend the performance of the juniors against their strong neighbours

Nelson u13B – 243-7 KHCC u13 Koalas 222- 2

Luke Molloy 2-6 Top scorers Luke Molloy and Oli Holmes

Batted well but failed to punish the bad ball. Team steadily improves however

LHCC U9s – 256-5 Darwen U9s – 231-8

Joseph Halstead 19* Charlie Bithell 3-14
Ross Birchall 14
Ethan Laraway 10

Unbeaten run continues