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Stocksbridge 1st XI 268-9 (40 overs) Jack Newton 117, Joe Hibbert 38, Harry Hurst 33 Sheffield University Staff 1st XI 167-7 (40 overs) Jack Newton 2-29, Jake Vickers 2-31 ROLL back five months and the country was in lockdown and the start of the cricket season postponed. Five months later and The Green Army were hosting Sheffield University Staff at Bracken Moor for the final game of the shortened season. Captain Andy Hibbert rallied his men one last time and after losing the toss, Bridge were asked to bat first. Matt Price and Jack Newton strode out to the crease looking to get Stocksbridge off to a good start and finish the season with a bang. Newton it was who took that literally as no house in the local vicinity looked safe as Newton was in a destructive mood. Newton found the boundary from the off, an opening bowling partnership of a medium paced bowling and an off spinner seemed to play right into Newton’s hands.
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Both sides victorious as curtain comes down on shortened season In a flash Newton hit another boundary and brought up his half century in eight overs. After Price was dismissed for four, Chris Pickford as always scored a classy looking 12 before giving his wicket away and Ant Siddall came and went for six. Newton continued to go about his work and scored a magnificent century dispatching the ball to all parts. Newton was finally dismissed for an excellent 117 from 65 balls. The Stocksbridge middle to lower order contributed throughout, Harry Hurst batted excellently for 33 before being bowled. Steve Perry added 16, Matt Hague a close to a run a ball 15 and Joe Hibbert ended the innings in entertaining fashion with a wonderful quickfire 38 from 24 balls to post a top drawer total of 268 from their allotted 40 overs. At the halfway point Stocksbridge knew that they were well in the driving seat and extremely strong favourites going into the second half of the game. In true knowing this, the Green Army really struggled to get going, Uni Staff required something special and despite Joe Hibbert removing opener Robinson for 0, Uni Staff made an excellent start. After a sloppy start, Stocksbridge turned it on in patches to keep Uni Staff at bay. With Uni Staff 77-1 from 12 overs, a partnership was just starting to build and the visitors were just starting to dream. Before any serious
thoughts of a run chase, Jake Vickers who had been brought into the attack to replace Joe Hibbert removed the dangerous opener for 39, caught at cover by Liam Grayson. Grayson himself seems to have built an excellent bowling partnership with Vickers and backed him up in the next over by removing the No.3 for 34 after an excellent catch from Newton and in a flash Uni Staff were now 77-3. The game from here on in certainly wasn’t a thriller, Uni Staff protected their wickets well but in true never looked like challenging Stocksbridge’s mammoth total. Chris Pickford bowled an economical spell and helped himself to a wicket in the process. Newton who seemed to be able to do little wrong turned his arm over and grabbed two wickets to go with his earlier ton. In a hunt for late wickets Jake Vickers returned and picked up his second and Stocksbridge’s seventh but the game was unfortunately not much of a spectacle. Uni Staff slowly trickled up to 167-7 with very little interest in the run chase and Stocksbridge completed a whopping 101 run victory to end the 2020 season. Richmond 1st XI 111 all out (31.2 overs) Chris Thwaites 4-7, Jack Firth 3-45 Stocksbridge 2nd XI 112-6 (27.1 overs) Chris Ogley 28, Tom Dobson 28, Jack Reeves 24
Jack Newton 117 runs from 65 balls
Past captains meet up at Golf Club THIS week’s competitions started on Thursday with the Mid Week Stableford, this was won by Danny Costelo (42pts). In second place was John Leaning and Ben Stringer in third.
On Sunday, the gents played the September Medal Division One, with a magnificent round of 61 won by Steve Clayton, closely followed by Eddie Steele, and in third Lee Hides.
The ladies played a short front nine Stableford on Friday, this being won by Kath Busfield (17pts). Saturday brought on the Jubilee Cup, a better ball pairs event, the pair of Peter Barker/Steve Cain victors with a score of 55, runners up on 58 were Jay Whittaker/Karl Harris and in third place were Richard Grimmer/Liam O’Sullivan (59).
Division Two was won by Curt Newton (63) in second Chris Walker, and third Carl Thomas. Sunday afternoon was Lady Past Captain’s Day; the victor with a better back nine was Bev Sykes (35pts) in second place Alison Sedgwick (35pts) and in third Ann O’Donnell (34pts).
War Memorial lose to champions Redmires 5-1 Oughtibridge War Memorial OUGHTIBRIDGE War Memorial went down 5-1away at the current league champions and with players missing and five 18-year-olds in the starting line up, this was always going to be a tough ask. However, it was Oughtibridge who made the early running and should have scored when Matt Harrison
and Charlie Cope both shot straight at the keeper. A couple of great stops by Adnett for Oughtibridge were needed before the visitors went in front with a great goal from Callum Simms, who hit an unstoppable shot from 20 yards. It was nearly two when debutant Callum Spencer hit the
bar. Just before half time, Redmires hit two quick fire goals and then they added a third straight after half time to effectively kill the game. Oughtibridge still kept pushing and despite going close on several occasions it was the champions who added two more and won their 17th straight game.
