AIC First XI cricket Rd 5 Players of the Week
This Year 10 cricketer has amassed an incredible 2000 runs this summer across multiple grades, including AIC First XI, but he’s not just handy with the bat.
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Is St Patrick’s College, Shorncliffe’s Steve Hogan the best schoolboy batsman in Queensland.
The Year 10 student passed 2000 runs (2057) with his unbeaten 57 in a collapsing Paddies innings last Saturday.
The Sandgate-Redcliffe junior has now scored more than 2000 runs across Lord Tavener’s under 16s, grade cricket (mainly thirds) and AIC First XI cricket.
ROUND 5: AIC FIRST XI COMPETITION WIDE OPEN
Although there are some mighty fine performers around this season in both AIC and GPS First XI cricket, no one matches his runs.
Iona College’s matchwinner Harley Malpass is on fire with the blade, his batting partner Zayne Thomas was a recent record breaker, while Villanova’s Finn Thallon have joined Hogan, Will Nickelson, Thomas and Malpass as century makers this season.
A right hander, Hogan is also an excellent off spinner who is influencing matches with the ball as well.
Last season he also scored an AIC century as a Year 9 student.
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High achieving teenagers this season include:
+ Hugh Weibgen (Valley), the Brisbane Grammar School old boy has 1316 first grade runs at 47.
+ Nudgee old boy Dan Seaton (Sandgate- Redcliffe) is going with 895 first grade runs at 37.29
+ Norths’ Queensland under 17 batting ace Alex Procopis has 1168 runs at 37.68
BSHS’s Jack Sonter (Wests) and Blake Armstrong (BBC) have reeled off rare GPS first XI hundreds, but none have come within cooee of 2000 runs, although Weibgen of course is playing first grade.
PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
St Peters Lutheran College v Iona College
Sree Bachu (St Peters)
St Peters all-rounder Bachu took the game with the bat belting 22 from nine balls, but it was his bowling which proved a winner. He claimed 2-36 in his team’s six run win. With Iona eyeing victory, he held his nerve to snare two wickets at a time when Iona probably had its nose in front at 4-133.
Matt Harvie (St Peters)
The St Peters’ Lutheran College bowling ace has been a runaway success for the surgent Saints this season, with his dismissals of Zayne Thomas and Harley Maplass crucial to his team’s upset win. The leg spinner (3-32 from 10 overs) had a big Lord Tavenern’s campaign, and now took 11 wickets for his school, conceding just 2.32 runs per over which is fabulous for a wrist spinner.
Ashish Neredumilli (2-30) also deserves high praise.
Toby Collins (Iona College)
Collins answered the call to arms with a match high score of 47, also his highest knock of the season. He watched batting trumps Thomas and Malpass miss out, but he was not intimidated, stroking his runs off just 53 balls.
Bastien Walter (St Peters)
Saints claimed the win because it was a team performance, but in a relatively low scoring affair Walter’s 21 ball cameo for 28 not out late in the innings provided the difference.
Marist Ashgrove v St Patrick’s
Steve Hogan (Paddies)
Last time Hogan confronted Ashgrove he scored a matchwinning half century to deny them premiership spoils with Iona College.
This year the result was different but Hogan still provided the goods. In an innings where S Megaw (11) was the only other Paddies batsmen to reach double figures, Hogan scored an unbeaten 57.
He stuck it out for forty overs to get his side to 108, before applying pressure with his off spin (10-1-33-1).
Tom Davies (Ashgrove)
Davies had the ball on a string on Saturday. The new ball was whooping and it was Davies who cashed in with two early wickets.
Then, he came back into the attack and beat the bat half a dozen times with some brilliant outswingers. Finally he was rewarded with the scalp of Noah James.
Louis Morris (Ashgrove)
Morris spun his way to figures of 3/14 off ten overs. He was back to his brilliant best at the bowling crease, twice enticing the batsmen out of their crease.
Little did they know gloveman Will Nickelson was licking his lips behind the stumps.
Will Nickelson (Ashgrove)
He just keeps on delivering this kid. And to think he is in Year 11 — boy Ashgrove are in safe hands for the 2023 season.
He has perhaps the safest of hands in the competition, with two stumpings on Saturday the proof. After a clinic with the gloves, he was a 42 run hero in Ashgrove’s chase.
Wickets were falling like flies around him but Ashgrove always had hope with Nickelson in the middle. When he was dismissed, the door opened right up for Paddies. But, Louis Morris (11) and Joey Laner (11) finished the job with 19 runs required after Nickelson departed.
Villanova v Padua
Cameron Plackett (Padua)
Plackett stepped up to the plate against a surging Villa side.
The first drop batsmen was in so quick you’d think he was the opener and in the heat of it all he produced 46 of Padua’s best.
Pacey Broadhurst (23), Will Tozer (15) and H Ainsworth (14) and Will Webster all got away nicely.
Tom Rieck and Zak Joyce (Villa)
Reick (3/16) and Joyce (4/19) were all over Padua’s bottom order after Larry Clark and Jack Moloney removed the openers.
Reick, with his left arm lace and Joyce, with his right arm leg spin, restricting Padua to 145 in just 38 overs of batting.
But wait it gets even better.
The pair was just as impressive with the bat, with Joyce’s 58 and Reick’s unbeaten 60 capturing victory for Villanova with 25 overs to spare.
Talk about a dynamic duo.
Padua’s Mr.everywhere man Tozer picked up his side’s only two wickets on the day.
St Laurence’s v St Edmund’s
Daniel Gray, Thomas Stenhouse and Sam Parker (Laurie’s)
Gray (49) relished time in the middle, facing 100 deliveries before a gem from Sam Morris removed him one shy of a half century.
Stenhouse (80*) and Parker (56) took the baton and blasted their side to their first 250 plus total of the year.
In Stenhouse’s 69 balls he found the rope seven times and cleared it twice while Parker hit four fours and three sixes in a late flurry of runs for his team.
Year 10 Sam Morris (10-2-30-2) was excellent with the ball for Eddie’s, bowling tight lines throughout.
Xavier Santos, Evan Chamberlin and Ben Stallman (Laurie’s)
This terrific trio went to work quickly at the bowling crease. They came away with two wickets apiece and strangled the Eddie’s batsmen from ball No. 1, earning an early mark for the Laurie’s First XI after a convincing 168 run victory.
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