Weekend Roundup
The senior teams made it three wins out of four this weekend.
Saturday saw the First Team take on Church at home and bounced back in style with a great 12 points. Ben won the toss and elected to bat, slipping to 11 for 2 with him and Finchy back in the dressing room. Joe Martin and Ocki steadied the ship putting on 118 for the 3rd wicket, with Joe scoring his 5th Lancashire League half century making 65 and Ocki finished on a solid 80 after being caught on the boundary. House rallied and made 217 for 6 off their 50.
Church had a steady reply but never really got the momentum going losing wickets at regular intervals. Toxy took 3 wickets to take him over 50 league wickets for the club. Joe Hawke also took 3 pushing him up the History Books and Joe Martin took 3 stumpings, to equal the record (with 7 other wicketkeepers) for most stumpings in a Lancashire League innings. House bowled them out for 192
The Third Eleven also won, beating Great Harwood away. Some really tight early over bowling from Yanis, Caleb and Robson saw them restrict Great Harwood to 103. Caleb added to his rich vein of form in the week (100+ for his Lancashire Academy side) by hitting 69* off 63 balls in reply. House knocked them off 1 down off just 18.2 overs. Full scorecard here
A proud captain Phil Metcalfe led his Forth team on Saturday to a narrow defeat against Norden. They won the toss and batted first posting 248 for 7 off their 40 overs. A valiant reply saw them fall just short on 226 for 8 with Phil making 63 and George Durkin 53 not out. Full scorecard here
The last game of the weekend saw the Second Team continue winning ways against Church at home. House bowled Church out for 104 with Caleb taking 4, Jordan 3, Dec 2 and Ethan 1. House won by 10 wickets with Phil Haggerty and Ben Uttley knocking them off. Phil finished on 53 not out and cries of “Haggers is back” flew round the ground. Full scorecard here
