It was a great day for Knaresborough’s Juniors with the U13s being triumphant against a competitive Beckwithshaw side.

Knaresborough won the toss and chose to field.  Bond and Stanford opened the batting for Beckwithshaw with a steady start thanks to the tight bowling of Barnes, Cutts and Hughes, restricting the openers to 14 runs off the first 6 overs. 

Both Beckwithshaw openers retired on 25 each.  The first wicket fell to a run out on 70, with the second quickly falling without adding to the score.  Beckwithshaw batsmen hit a number of terrific boundaries including 1 six. Beckwithshaw finished on 105 for 6 from their 20 overs. The notable bowlers were Barnes (4 overs for 5 runs), Cutts and Baines (both picking up 2 wickets each). There was some good fielding by the Knaresborough team, including 2 run outs from Baines and Thompson, catches from Barnes, Witham and Cutts, excellent wicket keeping from Davies and a diving stop from Wilson.

Knaresborough innings didn’t get off to the best of starts with the first 2 wickets falling quickly. In came Davies who with his Captain and opener Barnes quickly increased the score.  Davies hit a magnificent and entertaining 25 with 4 boundaries before being run out on 25. Barnes retired after  scoring an excellent 28 runs.  Webster also batted very well with 3 boundaries retiring on 26.  Hughes hit 2 boundaries and was run out on 12.  This brought Wilson to the crease with Thompson. Thompson hitting the winning runs with a great boundary, finishing with 4 not out.  

Credit goes to both teams for a close and exciting match played in a terrific spirit.

At the presentation ceremony at the end of the game, Eddie Barnes and his team were presented with the cup for winning the Final, and all 12 members of the squad received an individual trophy. This was a superb achievement for the team, both in the final and throughout the season.

A delighted coach Tom Wilson said "A terrific final contested by two pretty evenly matched teams. Some excellent cricket, entertaining played in the right spirit a credit to both sets of players/squads".

Click for photos taken by Sam Witham.

The girls have enjoyed their cricket season and have turned up to training in consistently high numbers.

We had 2 matches against North Stainley and batted really well in both only to be let down by our bowling when we gave away too many wides in both games.

In the first game Georgie Ryan top scored with 25 and was well supported by Sam Corcoran who made 14 in our total of 264. 

However 35 wides allowed North Stainley to accumulate 296, despite Sam taking 3 wickets.

Our second game proved something of a run fest as we scored 330, again Georgie was top scorer with 36, Ellie Churchill made 25, Lizzie Churchill 20 and Becky Corcoran 16. 

However, we struggled for wickets with Gemma and Natalie taking our only ones as North Stainley managed to score 375 to win.

Thanks to all the girls for their enthusiasm and efforts during the season and to Mike for his help with coaching, until next year.

A girl's team has been entered for the indoor league this winter.