Katherine Raymont Shield premiers Western Suburbs: Meet every member of the side here
Club cricket finals’ special: Meet every member of the champion, premiership winning Wests women’s team and find out who were the 3-2-1 best and fairest players from the men’s first and second semi-finals.
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Western Suburbs were the Katherine Raymont Shield premiers after a surging nine wicket win over Sandgate-Redcliffe in the final.
After restricting the Gators to 9-169, Wests romped home with nine wickets to spare.
Meet every member of the premiership winning squad here, while also seeing who gained 3-2-1 recognition in the Jodie Purves second grade decider won by Northern Suburbs (7-125) over Uni (124), and also in the Bulls Masters first grade and second grade.
MEET THE PREMIERSHIP WINNING WESTERN SUBURBS SIDE
Georgia Redmayne
The team captain, she garnished the season in classy style by scoring 86 not out from just 95 balls in Sunday’s grand final.
The left handed ace is a borrowed Queenslander because she is from wonderful little Alstonville in northern NSW, a town just up the road from Lismore which is renowned for the great Adam Gilchrist and Queensland batting legend Sam Trimble.
Courtney Sippel
Like Redmayne, Sippel is another left hander who also bowls right arm medium pace.
Aged just 23, Sippel is only coming into her prime now.
Sippel is from a famous cricketing family who could field its own First XI and be competitive against any company. Sippel is from Matthew Hayden country, Kingaroy.
Ruby Strange
Strange finished the season in style, racing to 62 not out from 66 balls in Sunday’s grand final. The high achieving Strange, twice winner of the Kath Smith Medal and the 2018 Gladstone Cricket Junior Player of the Year, is a young all-rounder. On Sunday she finished the season with 2-26.
She grew up around the beautiful beaches and waters of Tannum Sands, just south of Gladstone. Lucky her.
Lily Bassingthwaighte
One of the women’s games most exciting players, Bassingthwaighte’s point of difference is her ability to bowl fast. She is also an excellent batter, but it is her bowling which makes this Australian U19 representative from the All Hallows’ School community an x-factor talent. The best is yet to come. The fast bowling enforcer took 1-34 in Sunday’s grand final.
Trinity Doyle
Another country kid, the Marburg-Mt Crosby Thunder junior is a superb Katherine Raymont Shield performer who contributes with both bat and ball.
Mentored early by her dad, the West Moreton Anglican College product is still Queensland U19 eligible and has a long career ahead of her.
Lilli Hamilton
A prodigious product, Hamilton hails from the rich soils of the Darling Downs where she attended Fairholme College, the same school as decorated Queensland batter, Georgia Voll.
With her father Danny a major influence, the young spinner first made a representative side when selected in the Queensland schoolgirls U12s. Still U19 eligible, Hamilton made her first grade debut for Wests aged 13. In Sunday’s grand final, her 10 overs yielded 2-22. She was recently named in the Cricket Australia squad to play in the U17 Lanning-Perry Trophy Series.
Caitlin Lutvey
Like Hamilton, mentioned above, Lutvey is another Toowoomba region kid who played her junior cricket with the Southern Districts Magpies. A recent Queensland Cricket KFC Moment of the Week winner, the young bowler played a huge role in Western Suburbs success this season.
Chelsea Sonter
A wicketkeeper capable of batting as high as No.3, schoolgirl Sonter has had a season to remember. She had the distinction of captaining the Queensland U16 girls, but also making the Queensland U19s as the keeper.
And now she has won a premiership. Then, to cap it all off, Sonter was named in the Cricket Australia squad to play in the U17 Lanning-Perry Trophy Series. That, ladies and gentlemen, is one hell of a 2024-25 cricket season. And to think she is still at school.
Ayaka Stafford
Like Sonter, Stafford is another high achieving schoolgirl who mixes classes at BSHS with on field cricket wizardry. The leg spin bowler also played in the Queensland U16 and U19 teams, taking a combined 22 wickets at 16.5 - often opening the bowling with impeccable control. Her economy for a slow bowler is remarkable for such a young woman. On grand final day her 10 overs secured 2-26. She was named in the Cricket Australia squad to play in the U17 Lanning-Perry Trophy Series.
Olivia Steel
A city girl from the prolific junior club of Holland Park, the hard working Steel has been a glue player for Wests this season.
Club teammates Bassingthwaighte, Sonter, Rebecca Storrs, Abbie Trevethan, Filippa SueSee and Stafford have all strode Holland Park’s club fields on their way to success at Wests. Aya Stafford, Chelsea Sonter and Abbie Trevethan still play for Holland Park Juniors on a Saturdays.
Rebecca Storrs
Another underage player, Storrs starred this season in the Tav’s U16 competition where she scored runs for fun. A thrilling batter capable of scoring at a run-a-ball pace, Storrs can also be a considered batter and can adapt her game to the circumstances. The Queensland representative was named in the Queensland U16 side..
Abbie Trevethan
Another one of Wests’ exciting players of the future, Trevethan rose from U16 Tav’s cricket this season to work her way into the club’s top side. An attacking player by nature, she bats bravely and can nail a ramp shot. Along with Storrs and Stafford, mentioned above, she is the baby of the first grade team who made the Queensland U16 side as vice-captain.
JODIE PURVES SHIELD, 3-2-1 grand final best and fairest
Norths (7-125) defeated University (124)
3. Taylor Hamblin (Norths)
Northern Suburbs desperately needed a top four batter to produce, and Hamblin did just that - and it is just as well. Uni were coming to get Norths late in defence of their 124, and without Hamblin’s 40 and her first wicket stand of 72 with Manbir Kaur (18), Uni might have won.
2. Shaelan Turner (Norths)
Turner claimed three of University’s top seven batter on her way to snaring a game defining 3-22. She ousted a dangerous Hayley Campbell who had flowed to 22, and then claimed the threatening Kyrna Crump first ball. University’s innings never recovered from that momentum shift despite the best efforts of Bree Craven who scored a game high 41.
1. Kyrna Crump (University)
Uni were up against it when Norths were 0-72 chasing 124, but along with the enforcer Olivia Clark, Crump (2-13, seven overs) put pressure on both with wickets and with her accuracy. It was a wonderful backs to the wall effort from Crump.
BULLS MASTERS, 3-2-1 semi-final best and fairest
Northern Suburbs 7/177 defeated Toombul 174
3. Sam Neale (Norths)
The Norths’ captain lead from the front, displaying nerves of steel to get his side home with the bat in partnership with Raveesh Srivastava. Victory was a distant dream when he walked to the crease, but his swift 21 not out from 37 balls pushed his side to a win. With the ball he was outstanding, taking 2-32.
2. Raveesh Srivastava (Norths)
Raveesh Srivastava’s batting with Sam Neale (21 not out) and Kendel Fleming (22) saved the day for Norths who were in danger of being bundled out. Asked revved up pace bowler Connor Sully and Tom Balkin’s Raveesh’s force field deflected the attack for 96 balls. He finished with 45 not out, anchoring the side to victory.
1. Tom Balkin (Toombul)
Balkin did what he does best - bowl fast. It came at a cost, but Toombul needed wickets and Balkin burst through to snare 3-60, including crashing through Alexander Procopis’s defence third ball.
Balkin also top scored in Toombul’s innings, making a hard fought 44 not out which, along with Sully, gave the Bulls a sniff. It was an innings of character.
Sunshine Coast (219 and 5/112) defeated Ipswich (194 and 136)
3. Chad Soper
Both Soper and Zac Murray claimed 19 wickets between them in the match to bowl their side into the grand final. The Super Soper was at the peak of his powers, slicing through Ipswich’s first innings with 6-70, before returning in the second dig to take 3-63 from 11 attacking overs.
3. Zac Murray
The pace bowler claimed remarkable match figures of 10 for 93 as his team surged to a hard fought five wicket win over Ipswich. He was the understudy to Soper’s first innings bowling, but took centre stage in the second innings to snare 7-46.
Alan Pettigrew Shield
South Brisbane 5-125 defeated Sunshine Coast 109
3. Arlen Wells-Peris (South Brisbane)
Age shall not weary this spin bowling wizard whose 15-7-11-4 was the foundation of which his team’s march to victory. While teammate James Rosewarne took care of the front office by taking early wickets, Arlen built pressure before deceiving the Coast’s best bat, Ben Baker, who deserves high praise for his fighting 54 from 181 balls.
2. James Rosewarne
Rosewarne’s four wicket haul busted down the door early for his side and was vital in South Brisbane’s performance.
1. Thomas Town (Sunshine Coast)
The outstanding young fast bowler did his best to fight his team back into the contest with 3-42. His late wicket of Daniel Skipwith (52) have his side one last hope after Skipworth had batted for 92 balls to anchor a tension filled run chase.
Originally published as Katherine Raymont Shield premiers Western Suburbs: Meet every member of the side here
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