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Under 15 News 29-01-10 |
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Title contenders? Promotion last season was well earned after a 3 month battle with Oxenhope and Earby, who were finally the ones to miss out. Our batting last year was high class with a club record number of runs scored. The squad will lose Marshall, James and Harry to the KC2000 League but the core strength is still there to mount a serious challenge in 2010. Jack Davison, Ben Fothergill, Lewis Wrathall and Matt Lee are as strong a top four as can be found with Jack and Lewis showing all-round ability as winner and runner-up in the Cricketer-of-the-Year awards. Add the developing talents of Jordan Bates, the promise of Jackson Rouse and Luke Chapman and a useful combo emerges. Last year's u-13 Cup Finalists will also provide James Lee and George Ingham in addition to those still eligible at u-13. As at under-17 our Cup ambitions may be scuppered by suspensions but the League Championship quite clearly is within our ambition. Winter Nets As the cricket season fast approaches (only 15 weeks to go !!), the club announces the arrangements for Winter Nets. They will again be held at Oakbank School on Sunday afternoons. For the younger age groups u-9, u-11, u-13 & u-15 Nets will commence at 5:00pm till 6:00pm. The Nets will commence Sunday February 21st for a period of 6 weeks. The weekly cost will be £3.00 per player. 2009 Presentation Night The Annual Junior Presentation Night took place as scheduled on Friday 2nd October at the club house. Team Manager Michael Davison was unable to attend but Club President Wilfrid Scarborough took the reins. The under-15s had been the only one of our teams to gain League honours with their targetted Division win to gain promotion to Division One for 2010. The inexpliquable Hargreaves Cup Final loss to Pendle Forest was a sad finale for the team in more ways than one. Nevertheless the on-field performances were of the highest order with just two defeats, to rivals Earby and Oxenhope, who also gained promotion. The under 15 awards for 2009 were announced as follows: The batting prize was a well-contested affair and the winner was Lewis Wrathall in a highly productive year for him. Captain Jack Davison continued to ply his fast-tweakers and picked up the wickets and the bowling award. His energetic fielding also caught the eye of the Umpires to gain his second trophy of the night. The all-rounder prize was fiercely contested by Lewis, Jack, Ben Fothergill and Matty Lee with the Trophy going to Jack Davison to add to his winter polishing duties! Later, the highlight of the evening was as always the award of the SA Labels Cup for the best performance of the year. A difficult coaches verdict was that James Lee's Under 15 Cup Semi-Final 27 and 2 wickets vs Upper Wharfedale was the most deserving match-winning performance in a major event. Day of Disaster
A 79 all out score was way below our par and though we took 3 Pendle Forest wickets we couldn't sop them taking the Cup for the first time. Jordan Bates was the one to maintain a form line as everyone else seemed off-colour. The good news on Wednesday was that our surprisingly easy win over Denholme Dragons has brought us a straight back promotion to the top Division.
Pro Coach Academy comes to OAKWORTH UAJCL is hosting a fabulous Summer Twenty-20 Cricket skills 3-day Training course for all UAJCL club junior players. Age range 6-16. And it's going to be held here at Oakworth over 3 days, 17th to 19th August (10:00 till 15:00). All coaches will be professional Yorkshire County Cricket Club First XI players. The cost is £75 per child.
To book places, which are
limited to only 25, either go to
www.procricketcoachingacademy.com and find the course under 'Yorkshire'
or phone 01133-200444 SO BOOK EARLY TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT
Airedale u15s have withdrawn from the Pro Coach Academy League. Accordingly fixtures are changed . Please note there is now a fixture on 20th May (away vs Bingley Congs) PLEASE CHECK on This site.
The target for this year's under-15s is to get the club back to Division One, from which we were relegated last season. The squad is quite capable of this in a 12-match programme in the Pro-Coach Academy League Division Two of 11 teams. James Heslop, Harry Hurren and Marshall Pedder are joined by Jack Davison, Jackson Rouse, Lewis Wrathall, Ben Fothergill, Matty Lee, Ryan Taylor, Jordan Bates, Frazer Atkinson, Josh Lister and George Knight. The main challengers would seem to be Denholme, Earby and Pendle Forest. In the Hargreaves Cup Oaks will travel to Skipton in Round One.
The five under 15 awards for 2008 were announced as follows: In a year which brought relegation to Division Two the outstanding feature was the enjoyment gained by the squad and finally the winning of the last two matches against rivals Oxenhope and Haworth west End ensured a high note on which to finish. They also enjoyed hugely the crushing win over Ingrow in the Hargreaves Cup, a side containing a fair number of ex-Oakworth players. Most of the lads will move up to The Keighley Cup2000 under 17 League in 2009 and will form the nucleus of our 'second' team.
The highlight of the evening was as always the award of the SA Labels Cup for the best performance of the year. A difficult coaches verdict was that skipper Jack Davison's Hindle Cup Final 56 vs Earby was a stupendous match-winning performance in a major event.
Want to watch the fabulous cricket at Oakworth AND earn some dosh? Oaks are looking for regular First, Second and Third Team scorers for 2008. The pay is £10 per match and a free tea!! Contact any of the committee for more details.
UAJCL Cup Draws have produced some fascinating ties in 2008. Not least amongst them is Oakworth u-15s home pairing with guess who? Yes it's Ingrow!! It's a chance for Ingrow's Joe Hoyle, Jason Roberts, Matt Courtman and one or two others to show Oaks what they've learned in their years at Oakworth and similarly our lads will of course want to ensure they don't get carried away! The match at Cure Hill has to be played by May 16th.
Last year's super under-15s squad have now almost all moved up to the KC2000 League (u-17s). So this year a virtually new under 15s will chase the Johnson & Johnson League title so narrowly missed last year. Vast experience comes from Luke Chapman, Captain of the 2006 Brook Taverner side, Greig Hudson, and Tom Hudson. Added to these guys we have Tom Steele and Jack Atkinson from 2007, Moving up from the under-13s will be James Heslop, Jack Darnborough, Marshall Pedder and Joe Healey. Back up will come from the under-13s in the likely form of Jack Davison, Ben Fothergill, Lewis Wrathall, Jackson Rouse and Matt Lee. It'll be a tough year and a hard act to follow.
Our u-15s squad has had a tremendous season in the Johnson & Johnson League losing only twice; to Upper Wharfedale and Steeton. The batting is the best in the age group with Luke T, Jack and Brannan amongst the age group best, in fact in the top five run-scorers. All three have made the League List as has Michael Clegg in the bowling. Ricky Linden and James Longbottom have also bowled well (10 wickets each) with young Greig Hudson chipping in regularly with ball or bat. Well done lads! The loss to Upper Wharfedale proved crucial as Steeton lost just the one match to us at Cure Hill. Danny Aspinall, Jack Atkinson and Tom Steel as inexperienced players have progressed well, the Third XI obviously helping them enormously. Luke Chapman and Tom Hudson have had steady years but will be to the fore in 2008. Oakworth u-15s have never won the First Division so the second placing is as good as we have ever done!! 2008 will see a major exodus upwards to the under-17s with Luke C, Tom H, Jack A, Greig and Tom S still eligible for u-15 cricket. They will be joined by Joe Hoyle, Jason Roberts, Matt Courtman, Ben Pursey, Jack Darnborough, Marshall Pedder and Joe Healey in a relatively new look u-15 line up, charged at the very least with preserving our cherished Division One status.
The squad has included Scott Hartley (Capt), Jake Hoyle (vice capt), Oliver Stell, Joe Copperwaite, Richard McCullough, Ben Lamb, Hannah Ellis, Chris Crook, Nicholas Bolt, Jack Booth,, Jacob Driver & Jonny Gill. Under-13s Gordon Ingham, Jack Hainsworth, Brannan Lawn, Nick Crook, Luke Chapman Michael Clegg & Ben Wine also helped land the title. The team will receive the Trophy at the League Presentation Night on Friday 16th September at KRUFC, 7:00pm (for 7:30). |
The
19th July will go down as 'Black Sunday' for Oakworth CC as all four
fixtures planned for that day were lost, sadly including two Cup Finals.
After a fantastic high-scoring season of almost 1,300 runs our big day at
the Cup Final was an anti-climax when we didn't perform as we had done most
of the year. 
The
batting prize went to under 13 Jack Davison in
a highly productive year for him at a number of age-group levels.
Captain Luke Chapman benefitted enormously from
experience in the 2nd and 3rd XIs and was a worthy winner of the bowling
award ahead of Greig Hudson. Leading catcher and fielder was
Jack Davison and he also added the all-rounder
prize to his massive 2008 haul of trophies. Finally the Most Improved player
award went to Jack Atkinson, another to benefit
from run outs with the Third XI.
Here
they are in celebratory mood, Oaks 2005 Johnson & Johnson
U-15 Divisional Champions. They clinched the
title with victories in their last two matches to end the season with an
11-0-1 record, having lost only away at runners up Earby. Its the first time
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