Rawhiti Legal OBR won the season-long Hope Cup Senior B competition. In the 2 v 3 semifinal they beat Horouta Te Waka. In the 1 v 4 semifinal, Bollywood Stars HSOB Presidents beat Civil Project Solutions Ngatapa Green Caps. As OBR had a higher seeding (3) than Presidents (4) going into the semis, OBR were named competition winners.
In between the premier grade’s Doleman and DJ Barry cup competitions, the gutsy Galaxy World Gisborne Boys’ High School first 11, captained by Nathan Trowell, won all four of their T20 matches to win the Walker Shield over two weekends, after fighting hard to place sixth at the Super 8 schools’ tournament in Gisborne.
Siteworx Civil Horouta skipper David Situ saw Te Waka put up the premier grade’s best individual and team batting performance, and the biggest winning margin of the year in their 275-run win against OBR on March 5.
Poverty Bay Cricket Association’s senior prize-giving will be held at the Harry Barker Reserve pavilion at 7.30pm tomorrow night, while junior prize-giving is scheduled to be held on Friday, April 1.
Poverty Bay director of cricket David Castle, at the end of his first summer in the role, said: “It’s been a good season. We’ve had some great individual and team performances across both the senior and junior grades and competitions, but we can always streamline things and improve.
“We will certainly look to get a Poverty Bay team into the Basil McBurney second 11 competition next season, and go from there.”