Friday saw our final All Stars session of the 2023 season, we hope to see them next Friday at our Rockets training.
On Friday night our Rainton Ladies hosted Sunderland Ladies in a League game, Rainton batted first making 67 for 8. Kay-Louise Robson 2 runs - 2 wickets, Lesley Wilkinson 5 - 1, Becky Turner 7 - 0, Sue Bolt 18 - 0, Lauren Humphrey 1 - 0, Lisa Stoker 11 - 0, Janet Kitching 7 - 2, Rebecca Davies 2 - 1, Nicola Blake 9 - 1 and Daisy Wake 7 - 1.
Sunderlands experience showed as they reached 120 for 8. Becky Turner took 1 for 11, Sue Bolt 2 for 15, Janet Kitching 0 for 9, Kay Louise Robson 0 for 23, Lisa Stoker 0 for 13, Lauren Humphrey 1 for 7, Rebecca Davies 1 for 4, Daisy Wake 1 for 22, Nicola Blake 2 for 11 and Lesley Wilkinson 0 for 5.
On Saturday the first team hosted Silksworth on a rain affected Saturday. The visitors batted first making 185 all out, Scott Taylor took 1 for 40, Ben Foster 3 for 42, Derrick Steinberg 1 for 35, Gavin Snowball 2 for 31 and Kieran Burrell 3 for 28. In reply our innings was affected by rain ending in the 36th over with Rainton on 137 for 5. Alan Maskell 1, Ben Sims 65 not out, Lee Henderson 20, Luke Richardson 2, Conor Henderson 2, Gavin Snowball 36 and Scott Taylor 8 not out.
The second team travelled to Esh Winning but sadly were beaten by 66 runs. Batting first the home side made 131 for 9. Charlie Batey took 2 for 34, Cy Duffy 1 for 37, Rachael Petherick 2 for 26 and Grant Wilson 4 for 33. In reply we were all out for 65. Neil Matthews got us underway with 21, David Wales 6, Scott Gillan 0, Jordan Ibinson 14, Rachael Petherick 14, David Wright 2, Cy Duffy 0, Adam Bell 0, Grant Wilson 0, Charlie Batey 0 not out and Jason Barnes 0.
On Sunday our Rockets got a brilliant victory against Burnmoor. We batted first making 117 to Burnmoors 78.