High View knocks Shawlands for 6! By Dean Smith –YCB Community Cricket Coach On Thursday 30th April, The Annual Barnsley Y3/4 Drax finals took place at Shaw Lane. 17 teams from 12 schools took part in the event this year battling through the cold winds performing some great cricketing abilities throughout the day. One of those teams was Shawlands Primary (last year’s Yorkshire Drax Champions). The teams were split up into 4 groups all playing in a round robin format during the morning. Defending champions Shawlands showed there pedigree scoring 260 in their first game with Churchfield’s B team replying with only 74. In Group B High View (last years Barnsley Drax runners up) also set the tone in their group scoring 191 in their first game and restricting Worsborugh Common A to 74. Some great cricket was being played on all 8 pitches it was hard to stick to just watching one game, with a wicket being taken in one game a six was being hit in another. After the round robin games had been completed the children sat down for lunch and the results were read out and the schools found who was to advance through to the quarter finals in the afternoon. The results were as follows: Group A Shawlands A Upperwood Academy Barugh Green Churchfield B + Runs 573 475 401 261 Pts 9 7 5 3 Group B High View A Penistone St John B Wombwell Park Street Worsborough Common A + Runs 539 433 409 209 Pts 9 6 6 3 Group C Burton Road Millhouse High View B Churchfield A + Runs 463 476 406 366 Pts 9 7 5 3 Group D Thurgoland Penistone St John A Joseph Locke Shawlands B Worsborough Common B + Runs 586 551 559 462 434 Pts 12 10 8 6 4 Quarter Finals Shawlands A v Millhouse Defending Champions Shawlands saw off Millhouse in the first quarter final, Millhouse batting first were set to post a challenging target until the final over where they lost two wickets in two balls reducing their score to 129. Shawlands Romped to victory with a reply of 195. High View A v Penistone St Johns A High View A saw off Penistone St Johns B in their quarter final scoring 211 in their innings and took wickets left right and centre in Penistone’s innings who could only score 104. Burton Road v Upperwood Academy Upperwood took 7 wickets during Burton Roads innings who could only post 95 runs. Upperwood batted sensibly not losing a wicket scoring many boundaries and advancing through to the semifinals with 167 runs. Thurgoland v Penistone St Johns B 4’s and 6’s were being scored by both teams and the scores would have been very close if it wasn’t for Penistone St Johns taking 6 wickets during Thurgoland’s innings limiting their score to 142, Penistone going through with 166 runs. Semi Finals The semi-finals saw Group A and Group B winners and runners up face each other again, showers that were forecasted didn’t affect the quality of cricket being played and in fact helped the ball zip the boundary even more. Shawlands A v Upperwood Academy A Tightly contested game was played by these two schools, Upperwood posted 136 and started their bowling innings off perfectly getting two wickets in the first over, Shawlands battled back and were leading by 10 runs going into the final over. The pressure was on, and Upperwood added that pressure by taking two wickets bringing the scores level, but Shawlands scored two single to book their place in the final winning by 2 runs scoring 138. High View A v Penistone St Johns B High view carried on their big hitting scoring 6’s all over the field and posted 218 in their innings and carried on their good form by taking 8 wickets during Penistone’s innings restricting them to 107. Final High View A v Shawlands A These two teams know each other all too well as this was a repeat of last year’s final; Shawlands being victorious last time and going onto become overall Yorkshire Champions at Headingley. However High View was looking for revenge and duly got it. Batting first High View did what they did best scoring 6’s for fun on their way to posting 180 in their innings. Shawlands fought hard during their innings but the high run chase was too much for them scoring only 132. Both Schools will advance to the South Yorkshire Finals, which is part of the School games on July 1st at Rotherham Town CC. Thank you to all schools for taking part and competing at such a high level, and also thank you to the leaders from Darfield Cricket Academy for umpiring and scoring during the day. High View A (winners) Shawlands (Runners-up)