Rathkeale complete South Island cricket tour

The Rathkeale College 1st XI cricket team recently undertook a tour of the South Island.
The 12 day tour involved 9 days of cricket, and with no play lost through wet weather, it proved to be both tiring and challenging.
Six days were spent in Christchurch where the team played one day matches against Christs College, St Andrews College and a two day match against Christchurch Boys High School. They also visited the High Performance Centre at Lincoln where the team was able to have exclusive use of the training facilities.
From there the team went to Blenheim to participate in their annual quadrangular tournament involving matches against Scots College and Hutt International Boys School both from Wellington. The final match was a three day match against the powerful Marlborough Boys College team.
As the tour progressed the team developed very well and as the results suggest the team went from strength to strength.
Match Results
Christs College ? one dayer
Christ College 257 ? 6 Brock Price 2-20
Rathkeale 210 S. Clinton-Baker 40, C. Aplin 28, T. Lucas 28, D. Bracewell 20,
Win to Christs College by 47 runs.
St Andrews College - one dayer
Rathkeale 141 D. Bracewell 40, B. Price 26, A. Dodd 24
St Andrews 142 ? 5 D. Bracewell 2-18
Win to St Andrews by 5 wickets.
Christchurch Boys High School ? two day match
CBHS 278
T. Merriman 3-34, S. Renall 2-30, D. Bracewell 2-48
Rathkeale 164 T. Lucas 23, B. Price 21, A. Dodd 18, S. Renall 18, T. Merriman 17 not out
And 204 T. Lucas 40, D. Bracewell 38, J. Dondertman 33, A. Dodd 30
Match drawn
Scots College ? one dayer
Scots 207 (44 overs) S. Clinton-Baker 4-29, D. Van deVenter 2-35, A. Dodd 2-32
Rathkeale 208-7 T. Lucas 79 not out, T. Merriman 30, B. Price 21
Win to Rathkeale by 3 wickets.
HIBS ? one dayer
HIBS 159 (49 overs) D. Bracewell 3-32, A. Dodd 3-32, J. Dondertman 2-20
Rathkeale 160 ? 5 T. Lucas 67 not out, S. Clinton-Baker 37, T. Merriman 22
Win to Rathkeale by 5 wickets
Marlborough Boys College ? three day match
Rathkeale 135 D. Bracewell 47
And 175 J. Bailey 36, T. Merriman 34 not out, B. Price 24, T. Lucas 22
MBC 214 B. Price 3-31, S. Clinton-Baker 3-71, A. Dodd 2-31
And 62 S. Clinton-Baker 5-18, A. Dodd 4-5
Outright win to Rathkeale by 34 runs
This was a very exciting finish to the tour. After conceding a first innings lead of 79 runs, Rathkeale fought back from 95-7 in their second innings to reach 175. Left with 97 to win the game outright Marlborough batted cautiously to reach 57 ? 4 before an outstanding fielding and bowling effort saw them succumb for just 62.