by Sue Sorensen

The Under 12 Douglas Muddies, captained by Daniel Davidson, played an exciting match against Mareeba Bombers at Mossman High School on Saturday morning resulting in a very close win to the junior muddies team. 

The Muddies won the toss and elected to bowl first. Opening bowler Levi Trewick took the first wicket of the day in his first over finishing with 1 for 7 off 3 with one maiden. 

Luke Twomey had the best bowling figures of the match with 2/6 off 3, closely followed by newcomer Hugo Walker on 2/20 off 3 overs. Hugo also made an outstanding diving catch off Luke’s bowling.

Ryan Doble was again successful in taking a wicket 1/6 as was Ashton Davenport 1/19.  Daniel Davidson and Nathan Deuble also took a great catch each. Mareeba finished their innings on 7/161.

Douglas had a big job ahead of them to make the opposition’s score and opening batsmen Nathan Deuble and Bryce Fabiani started off the innings with some great hits. 

Bryce scored a four until he was caught and replaced by Reuben Allison.  Reuben faced up strongly and together with Nathan batted well until both retired together after facing their share of fair balls.   

Levi Trewick and Raine Sorensen were next to the crease and Levi, unfortunately, was caught out without scoring followed shortly by Raine Sorensen after being bowled without making a run. 

Hugo Walker was next into bat making 9 runs from 10 balls until being caught out.  Ryan Doble and Ashton Davenport were also both caught out on 2 a piece making it 7 wickets gone for 78 at 15 overs. 

The final two batsmen, Daniel Davidson and Keel Sorensen, had a big job to do but together they made a great partnership speeding up the run score and for the next 10 overs succeeded in making 91 runs between them. Daniel not out on 47 and Keel retiring on 44. 

Nathan and Rebuen returned to the crease for the last few overs and Nathan finished on his best score of 16 not out and Reuben 5 also not out.

The Douglas Junior Muddies won the game by only 12 runs finishing on 7/173. 

The Under 16 Douglas Muddies finished their two day match against Atherton at Tolga on Saturday with a disappointing loss by only 2 runs. 

The best batting results for the Muddies team were Ben Shrimpton 27, David Coulthard 25 and Glen Ives on 17.  Wicket takers for the match were Hayden D’Addona 3/9 off 8 overs, Michael Schulz 3/19, Kaiden Sorensen 1/8 off 8, Ben Shrimpton 1/9 and Tom Goodall 1/10. 

David and wicket-keeper Ethan McCullough also made a great run out.

Atherton were all out for 107 and Douglas Muddies were all out for 105. 

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