By Randall Woodley
For the third time in the first seven weeks of the season’s fixtures all the matches were washed out at the weekend. This has been disappointing for the Tewantin-Noosa Thunder after some good results by the teams in the early rounds.
Next Saturday begins the season’s series of ‘One-day’ matches and the game against Caloundra at Read Park will feature the First Grade team outfitted in their new maroon uniforms with numbers on their back. The game will be played with a white ball and black sight screens. This will be an exciting 50 over-a-side match and supporters are urged to come along during the day with the first ball to be bowled at 10.30am. The other three grades will also be playing ‘One-dayers’, each side having 40 overs to bat.
The Second Grade and Fourth Grade Teams will be playing the Burpengary Club down at the southern end of the Sunshine Coast while the Third Grade team will be playing Maroochydore Swans at Dale Officer Oval.
Representative Matches
On the weekend of 11-12 November, the South Queensland Schaeffer Shield competition was played in Toowoomba. Four players from the Tewantin-Noosa Club were selected in the Sunshine Coast Team and Jarrod Officer captained the side. The team played two 50/50 over matches over the weekend.
Day 1, Sunny Coast played South East Queensland (Ipswich) and bowling first had them all out for 90. TNT’s Codey Rzeszkowski took 4/13 and Stephen Shaw 1/18. In reply the Coast compiled 267 in their 50 overs with TNT’s Ben Gear 20, Shaw 36, and Officer 18. The Coast had another 20 overs to bowl and at stumps SEQ were 3/54 with Codey picking up another wicket.
On the Sunday the Sunny Coast played Darling Downs Country and batted first making 264. Ben Gear batted beautifully for 78 before getting out doing the right thing by the team going for quick runs. Shaw went for 13 doing the same and Jarrod Officer ended on 28 not out. Then the Sunshine Coast bowled the Downs out for 96 with none of the TNT bowlers needed.
At the end of the weekend competition, the Sunshine Coast Team won the shield for the first time in 17 years. This was as a result of the accrued bonus points, one ahead of the Gold Coast Team.
Congratulations to the two TNT players, Stephen Shaw and Cody Rzeszkowski who were selected in the South Queensland team to play in the state championships.
