Women and Girls' Cricket
Under 13s are HCCA Counties
Festival Champions
The U-13's won the HCCA Counties Festival which took place
at Haileybury School on Wednesday 1 June.
Nine counties took part in the day's cricket. The teams
were split into 3 groups of 3 for the first round of matches.
Each game was 8 overs per innings and the teams were made
up of 8 players.
In the initial group, Essex had to play Middlesex and Oxfordshire.
The first match against Middlesex, the girls fielded first
and restricted Middlesex to 32-5 from their 8 overs, Catherine
Dalton taking 4 wickets for 4 runs from her 2 overs. Essex
got to this target for the loss of just 2 wickets. This
set up a group decider against Oxfordshire. Essex batted
first this time and scored 46 from their 8 overs, and then
restricted Oxford to 36-5, to win the match and finish top
of the Group.
Middx 32-5 Catherine Dalton 4-4
Essex 33-2 Elizabeth Pope 15 not out
Won
Essex 46-3 Beth Langston 14*, Lauren Onojaife 10*
Oxford 36-5 Beth MacGregor 2-7
Won
The top 3 teams from each group the went into the final
group of 3 to decide the winners of the tournament. Essex
had to play Kent and Sussex who had won their respective
groups.
In the match against Kent, Essex batted first and posted
a big score of 62-3 in their 8 overs. This was always going
to be enough runs and the girls bowled and fielded well
to restrict Kent to 37-7. This set up a “final”
against Sussex who had also beaten Kent. Suusex batted and
posted a good score of 46-4. Essex began the chase well
scoring 16 of the first two overs, but then lost a couple
of quick wickets. Needing 16 from the last 2 overs, intelligent
running between the wickets from Beth Langston and Tia Moore
took 10 runs from 4 balls of the penultimate over. After
Tia was run out, Lauren came in and hit the winning runs,
giving the Essex girls a well deserved victory.
Essex 62-3 Lauren Onojaife 31, Jenny Lees 17 not out
Kent 37-7 Beth MacGregor 2-4, Catherine Dalton 2-5
Won
Sussex 46-4 Catherine Dalton 1-7
Essex 47-3 Beth Langston 11*, Beth MacGregor 11, Tia Moore
10
Won
Team: Lauren Onojaife, Beth MacGregor, Beth Langston, Tia
Moore, Jennifer Lees, Catherine Dalton, Hannah Courtnell,
Elizabeth Pope, Victoria Yates
