St Joseph’s Nudgee College beat Gregory Terrace while BGS shock BBC and the TSS survive State High
Connor Carroll’s summer of dreams rolled on for St Joseph’s Nudgee College at Tennyson today, while BGS shocked BBC and the Southport School survived a Brisbane State High School ambush in round three of GPS cricket.
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Connor Carroll’s summer of dreams rolled on at Tennyson today with another withering innings for St Joseph’s Nudgee College against Gregory Terrace in GPS First XI cricket.
In a round that ebbed and flowed, Brisbane Grammar School also shocked BBC, The Southport School survived a Brisbane State High School ambush while Toowoomba Grammar School had a win.
Brisbane Grammar School climbed out of the ground to defend just 129 at Northgate, with bowlers Bailey Curran (3-19), Griffith Adams (2-24) and Parth Mehta (2-19) paving the way toward an unlikely win as BBC made just 116.
BGS director of cricket Trevor Irvine. praised his bowlers and the fielding. “We created a run out chance and they realised to defend 129 they would need a good fielding effort and they all stepped up,’’ he said.
Brisbane Boys College all-rounder Charlie Bell (22), Liam McBrien (16), Flynn Brien (28) and Ali Zaidi (25 not out) tried to start BBC’s motor, but Brisbane Grammar could not be denied.
One of the turning points was when Curran ran out Brien after BBC were recovering at 6-101.
“They were looking like they were starting to get away for us and it was a very important moment. The run out was certainly a turning point,’’ Irvine said.
Earlier, BBC had produced another efficient team bowling performance to dismissed Grammar cheaply.
Not for the first time this season the wickets were shared around as Aidan McWhirter (2-19), Max Carlyon (2-24) and Sebastien Rodwell (2-15) enjoyed the spoils.
After BGS captain Matt Lockhart (16, 75) had dropped anchor, the lower order tried to rally around Nicholas Miller (33) who committed for almost two hours.
Bailey Curran (13), Jack O’Brien (13) and Robbie Sanders (14) put their heads down, and ultimately the runs they grafted for Grammar proved the difference.
“In the context of the match it turned out to be enough,’’ Irvine said in praise of the BGS lower order effort.
Against traditional foes St Joseph’s Gregory Terrace at Tennyson, Nudgee made 8-235, whisked along by Carroll’s 83 from 53 deliveries.
Terrace replied with 158, their innings gutted in two deliveries by Year 10 student Ethan Bartley (3-18) who claimed Will Prestwidge and Ed Backstrom with successive balls. Backstrom was caught brilliantly by Jye Davies, reducing Terrace to 5-85.
All-rounder Noah McFadyen, with 33 runs and 4-29, was also outstanding, but the match was set-up by the speed of Carroll’s innings as he peppered Gregory Terrace’s beautiful International Oval with five sixes.
Carroll’s grandmother Patrica has requested a copy of the newspaper which featured Carroll’s first round 99 run our against The Southport School, but another edition will now be on its way to nanny Carroll after the left hander again found the bullseye in his bat.
The Nudgee innings followed a similar pattern to the first two against TSS and Brisbane State High School.
Nudgee lost wickets early, stylish Mitchell Pascoe (31, 32 balls) got his team moving forward before Carroll steamrolled the opposition with help from all-rounder McFadyen (33, 63 balls).
The Nudgee lower order of Bartley (13), Jye Davies (10 not out) and Kallum Russell (12 not out) then pushed their side beyond 210.
The match heralded the First XI debut of Gregory Terrace year 10 student Luke Davies.
His promotion into the Firsts capped a numbing week for the 1.91m tall Davies who was also named in the Australian under 15 side alongside Nudgee’s Tom Balkin and fellow Queenslander Carter Pearson.
Davies used his size 13 shoe in an economical run up which is all arms and legs at the start as he generates speed, and ends with efficiency as he approaches the umpire and the bowling crease.
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The kid had a dream start as well, watching Jet Liebke chip a ball to mid-off fieldsman Rohit Maraudhatchalam early in his spell.
Terrace, missing the express Will Prestwidge from the attack, were not at full strength but Maraudhatchalam, Jack Pilgrim and off-spinner Nicholas Morton did their best in the first 20 overs.
Tall and lean, Pilgrim bowled a lovely line which gained reward when he snared Hayden Brough played on, and then the dangerous Pascoe (31, 32 balls) who was caught by wicketkeeper Toby Snell.
A moment of desperation on the boundary by the lively Backstrom, when he saved a certain four runs, emphasised his team’s desire in the field.
Later Backstrom put a brake on the Terrace innings by conceding just 19 runs from six overs of whippy left arm pace.
Terrace were not daunted by the run chase, but were soon behind the eight ball when McFadyen dismissed his close mate Snell and then James Hurst.
Nick McGill (37, 58 balls) and Dylan Kritzinger (52) gave their side a sniff before Bartley burst through to take three quick wickets.
When off-spinner Jye Davies claimed Lachlan Marshall LBW with the score on 118, Terrace were six down and out of the match.
Bartley, strongly built, gave the impression he could burst through a sight screen without losing stride, so aggressive is he during a straight approach to the wicket.
While he was taking wickets at one end, fellow year 10 student Kallum Russell was slinging them down from the other to contain Terrace.
At Fursden Oval, The Southport School needed a tail end stand between Jack Sinfield and Kye Shield to lift themselves above Brisbane State High School.
Defending a small total, Brisbane State High seamer Joseph Rangiah (2-25), fast bowler Sam Hatherell (1-18) and leg spinner Nick Percy (3-13) combined to reduced TSS to 8-113 chasing 133.
However, Sinfield (18 not out) and Shield (12 not out) combined to drag their side off the canvas after Harry Burdon (47) had held the top order together.
Earlier in the BSHS innings, Curtis Howard raced to 40 from 30 balls opening the innings, but The Southport School soon gained the upper hand to dismiss BSHS for 133.
Tom Watts claimed the bowling figures for TSS with 3-34 while Peter Lynch (2-25) and Jack Hocart (2-12) were among the wickets.
For BSHS, tailenders Percy (12) and Keegan O’Donnell (16) held up TSS with a late stand.
At Mills Oval. Ben Potter took 5-35 while Matt Watson scored 52 to spearhead Toowoomba Grammar School to victory against Ipswich Grammar School.
TGS rose to 191 batting first and were able to dismiss the opposition for 132.
“It was pleasing for the boys,’’ said TGS director of sport Wes Dunne.
“Anything close to 200 is a good score in a 50 over match and it was very pleasing, especially after last week.
“It was great to keep Ipswich down and get away with the win.’’
Potter was supported at the bowling crease by fellow Toowoomba Grammar bowler Harrison Weir (2-15).
In the TGS innings, Watson was helped by Morgan Galvin (30) who took on his rivals late in the innings, while Ben Potter and Daniel Brown both applied themselves to score 24 each.
Sean Seaward was outstanding for IGS, snaring 3-33 while Lachlan Bell was rewarded with 2-36.
In the IGS innings, Ipswich recovered from 2-10 courtesy of Cody Pyne (39) but Ipswich could not keep the innings going.
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