AIC First XI round 1 report, including Iona hundred
An Iona College rookie fired off a AIC First XI debut century, the Saints marched in while Paddies rose to the occasion in a northside derby.
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Iona College’s Joshua Ritchie fired off an exciting round 1 century while St Patrick’s bowlers hunted as a pack to send their side to a northside local derby win in AIC First XI cricket.
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Marist College Ashgrove and St Peters Lutheran College also had also had winning starts to the competition, with Saints’ Lars Sagorski taking 4-22.
The headline grabbing round 1 performance came from Ritchie, a Year 11 Iona student, who scored 112 (141 balls) to see his side to a winning 4-318.
In reply St Laurence’s were dismissed for 155.
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Ritchie hit 14 fours and one six across his innings for Iona.
Scoring hundreds is not uncharted territory for Ritchie, the Wynnum Manly junior who scored three winter season club centuries last year, and also two AIC 10As hundreds last season.
Ritchie and his opening partner, Liam Carter (70), dominated the morning session, with Carter flowing at almost run-a-ball pace before his dismissal.
Harley Malpass (61, 59 balls) then maintained the momentum of the innings before Nicholas Bragger went bash, crash and wallop to thump 59 from just 23 balls.
Bragger hit six sixes as Iona’s innings ballooned beyond 300.
When St Laurence’s batted, Iona’s opening bowling pair of Lachlan McClure and Adam Richter got among the wickets early, with Richter snaring the prized scalp of Xavier Santos (21) who had threatened with five fours.
Both finished with two wickets each, while James Turner claimed 4-47 for Iona.
Evan Chamberlin top scored for Laurie’s with a quick 51 (43 balls) while Aiden Mohr (31, 31 balls) also took on the Iona bowler.
In the local derby between St Patrick’s and Padua, it was the Paddies’ bowlers who won the contest hands down with a tremendous team performance
But defending just 87 runs, Padua fought back hard with the ball.
Paddies’ lower order batsmen had to scramble to put the pads on as all-rounder Will Webster and veteran Will Tozer challenged their rivals, while two wickets by Ryan Out (2-15, 10 overs) added to the tension.
In the end St Pat’s got the job done after dismissing Padua during the morning session.
Austin Tsingos (3-3) and Samuel Megaw (2-0) cashed in late with wickets, but only after Theo Tsingos (1-11), Cooper Williams (0-14), Alexander Bullock (2-12), Matthew Pereira and Adam Hogan (1-29) had done the hard yards against Padua’s top order.
Padua’s Will Webster challenged for well over an hour with 27, but it was the St Pat’s bowlers who took the honours.
At Andrew Slack Oval, Marist rallied from a morning collapse to post a competitive 6-217 courtesy of a patient Jack Watson (34, 76 balls), an enterprising Joey Laner (64, 88 balls) and a dashing 47 not out (27 balls) by Louis Morris.
Villa bowler Henrik Frederiksen, with support from Lachlan Colbert, owned the morning session on his way to two wickets, and finished with 3-40.
Zac Joyce (2-21, 10 overs) and Lachlan Whaites (1-29) also held up Marist’s march, that was until Morris got moving.
But it was last year’s premiers Ashgrove who got off to a winning start.
Debutant Watson and Laner were quick to the rescue with a game-breaking partnership. Then, to turn the game on its head, elite all-rounder Morris went on a barrage to see Ashgrove to the fifty over mark with 217 runs next to its name.
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In pursuit of Ashgrove’s total, opening batter Joyce scored 46 from 61 which followed his impressive bowling effort.
But wickets tumbled while Joyce was at the nonstrikers, with Sam Lewis (9.3-3-23-4), Flynn Cleary (6-0-26-1), Morris (8-2-13-2) and Laner (4-0-10-1) combining to earn Ashgrove an early mark and a strong foundation to build on for their season.
At Tivoli, St Peters reached high ground of 205 courtesy of Noah Johnson (71) before winning against St Edmund’s 109.
Johnson’s enterprising innings lasted just 99 balls, but his success was hard earned.
He did plenty of running, churning up and down the wicket to pinch singles and twos and threes. It was a very good knock by the youngster.
He had support from James Nelson and Lars Sagorski (both of whom scored 33).
Eddies’ batsman Patrick Albion batted boldly in reply, but St Peters’ bowlers Thomas, Neredumilli, Croll, Sai Vytla, Sagorski, Krause and Hugo Kelly worked their way through the St Edmund’s innings.
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