Cricket: JPC to field a team in Western Bay comp

John Paul College will play by invitation in this season's Western Bay of Plenty Secondary School cricket competition.

They will play Trident High School in the first round in Whakatane on Saturday.

Otumoetai Cadets will join the Mount Maunganui Cricket Club in fielding two club teams in the term four secondary school title races.

"We are aiming to make cricket available for players from schools that don't have enough players available to field a full school side," said long time Otumoetai Cadets member Grant Manner.

Two outstanding young women's players will wear the Cadets uniform in the Division One competition. Briana Perry and Nensi Patel, who attend Tauranga Girls College, were both members of the 2015 Bay of Plenty Secondary schoolgirls team that won the ND title in December last year.

Both young players are also members of the Bay of Plenty Senior Women's side and have played for Northern Districts.

Waihi College will join Eastern Bay of Plenty's Trident High School and John Paul College who play by invitation in the WBOPCA Schools competitions.

Waihi College will make their Western Bay Schools debut in the Division Two competition.

WBOPCA Secondary School Draws 29 October 2016
Division One
Mount Maunganui Gold v Tauranga Boys College Blue, Gordon Spratt Reserve; TBC White v Otumoetai Cadets, Fergusson3; Bethlehem College v TBC Colts, Bethlehem College; Trident HS v John Paul College, Trident HS.
Division Two
Waihi College v TBC Sabina, Waihi College; TBC Kensington v Bethlehem College, Waipuna1; TBC Cavaliers v Cadets, Waipuna2; Mount Green the bye.