While the men’s Diggers @ The Entrance First Grade comp took a break on the weekend as a rep team competed in the McDonalds Country Cricket NSW Men’s Country Championships in Orange, the women’s Ibis Styles The Entrance First Grade comp powered ahead.
In a show-stopping Pink Stumps Day match, Terrigal Matcham 8/287 easily defeated Kincumber Avoca 9/96, with a huge part of this win credited to Grace Dignam scoring a colossal 169 not out of her team’s 287 runs.
This was the highest ever score in a women’s first grade match for Terrigal-Matcham.
The match also featured some star bowling from Sophie McCrae, taking 4 for 41 off six overs, making sure Terrigal Matcham had to work for the big win.
Northern Power 4/69 also scored a win against Narara Wyoming 9/68, with some strong batting from Jessica Dowling (14 off 18 with 1 x 4) and AlexBobbi Smith (14 off 23 including 2 x 4s).
Dowling also had a great bowling session taking 3 of the 4 wickets for Narara Wyoming, for just 8 runs off 4 overs.
Northern Power’s Kerry Seymour finished 34 not out off 45 balls with 4 x 4s, while Sam Thomas, Cat Grant and Kylie Clarke each took two wickets.
Lisarow Ourimbah 0/78 didn’t take long to defeat Wyong 9/76, with Molly Kidd not out for 55 and Sophie Karczmarc not out for 16 in a two-woman batting show.
Piper Hooke took 4 wickets for just 3 runs off 4 overs.
Captain Jacinta Crawford did the lion’s share of the batting for Wyong, managing 48 runs off 72 balls before being caught out by Rachel Scarr.
Source:
Media release, Nov 28
Central Coast Cricket