After a whirlwind week of competition and fun, the rising stars of junior cricket in the region were recognised for their achievements.<\/p>\n
The North East Region Six Junior Country Week Carnival wrapped up on Sunday, with the presentation night held that evening at the Commercial Club, Albury.<\/p>\n
The Wangaratta and District Cricket Association claimed victory in two of the four divisions contested all week, but the individual talents of the players were on full display.<\/p>\n
Luca Solimo (City Colts) and Baxter McLeod (Rovers United Bruck) were named joint Bowler of the Carnival, having both taken nine wickets across the week at an average under 13.<\/p>\n
Beechworth\u2019s Taylor Thomson capped of an outstanding week with the Batter of the Carnival award, having scored 280 runs averaging 93.33, with two 50s across the week and a century in the under 15 final to his name.<\/p>\n
The overall Player of the Carnival award went to Beechworth\u2019s George Pfahlert, who dominated the under 12 competition.<\/p>\n
Pfahlert scored 175 runs while only being dismissed once, with three consecutive half centuries, while taking seven wickets at seven with the ball.<\/p>\n
WDCA players also featured prominently in the Team of the Week, with Thomson, McLeod, Solimo, Pfahlert, Charles Herbet (Ovens Valley United) and Jimi Pell (City Colts) named in the squad.<\/p>\n
The WDCA junior competition will continue from Friday, 30 January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After a whirlwind week of competition and fun, the rising stars of junior cricket in the region were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-430693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}