October 23, 2012
The South Burnett Cricket Association’s 2012-13 season of one-day matches returned with a bang on Saturday with Kingaroy RSL and Murgon Crusaders scoring solid victories.
Kingaroy’s Anthony Eden, who topped last season’s A Grade Batting Aggregate and Batting Average, started on a winning note, scoring a century in his opening innings.
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Crusaders’ Ashley Sippel and Jason Webber are stepping up a grade and out of the South Burnett competition with a shift to Gympie Gold for the rest of the season.
Sippel took three wickets in his debut match for Gympie against Caboolture on Saturday.
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A Grade Results
- Kingaroy RSL v Warriors at Lyle Vidler Oval, Kingaroy
Kingaroy RSL won the toss and batted first. Anthony Eden and Darren Geiger put on 107 for the first wicket. Kingaroy RSL finished their overs with 4/289.
Anthony Eden (102), Graeme Baderick (52) and Brady Roberts (50 n/o) were Kingaroy’s top scorers.
Craig Patterson 1/20 and Luke Smith 2/68 were the best of the Warriors’ bowlers.
In reply, the Warriors were bowled out for 161.
Jarrod Dascombe (33) and Tim Linnane (28) were best of the batsmen. Anthony Eden 2/9 and Simon Fairbairn 2/28 were the best of the RSL bowlers.
Kingaroy RSL won by 128 runs.
- Murgon Crusaders v Nanango Scorpions at Nanango Sportsground
Murgon Crusaders won the toss and batted first. Chris Heness (56), Andrew Roderick (43) and Damien Sippel (36) were the Crusaders’ top scorers. Crusaders set a massive target of 311.
Brendan Weil, 3/39 off nine overs, and Sonny Stevens, 3/43 off six overs, were the best of the Scorpions’ bowlers.
In reply, Scorpions managed 171. Best for Nanango were Phil Reddan (86 n/o) and Freddy Davies (40).
Bernard Hopkins, 4/20 off 6 overs, and Derek Sander, 2/21 off five overs, were the best of the Crusaders’ bowlers.
Crusaders won by 140 runs.
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B Grade Results
- Kingaroy RSL v Murgon Magic at Taabinga State School
Kingaroy RSL forfeited.
- Murgon Diggers v Wondai Wolves at Wondai Sportsground
Diggers batted first and were all out for 147 off 35 overs. Rodney Anderson (63), Craig Taylor (24) and Clint Suchoronczak (16) were the topscorers for Murgon.
Rory Brown 5/20 off four overs, Kiall Rowberry 2/15 off 6.2 overs and Chris Bodey, 1/23 off seven overs, were the best of the Wolves’ bowlers.
In reply, Wondai Wolves passed the target in the 22nd over with the loss of seven wickets.
Laurie Nicholson (50), Kiall Rowberry (42) and Matt Stumer (20) were the best of the Wolves’ batsmen.
Tavis Hartwig 3/21 off six overs, Amanda Anderson 2/7 off one over and Ryan Sommerfield, 1/22 off four overs, were the best of the Diggers’ bowlers.
Wolves won by three wickets.
- Warriors v Barambah at Kingaroy State School
Warriors were 9/259 after 40 overs. Matt Nesbitt (72 n/o), Trevor Hansen (59) and Shaun Hauritz (21) were the top scorers.
J. Walsh, 3/47 off eight overs, was the best of the Barambah bowlers.
In reply, Barambah were dismissed for 110. Top scorers were Delray Moses (21), S. Stewart (22) and Errol Simpson (21).
Matt Nesbitt, 5/26 off seven overs, was the best of the Warriors’ bowlers.
Warriors won by 149 runs
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T20 Results
- Wondai Wolves v Kingaroy RSL at Lyle Vidler Oval
Wondai 7/203 defeated Kingaroy RSL 120 in the T20 semi-final played on Friday night.
James Cameron top scored for Wondai with 94. Geoff Wallis (42) and Kiall Rowberry (21) were the other top scorers.
Cameron also took 4/9 off four overs.
Brady Roberts top scored for Kingaroy with 53. Best of the Kingaroy bowlers were C. Brown 5/37 off four overs and K. Donohue, 1/5 off three overs.
Wolves won by 85 runs.
The final of the T20 pre-season competition will be played between Murgon Crusaders and Wondai at Murgon Sportsground from 6:30pm on Friday night (October 26).
