EGCA toast high-performers at junior country week series

Darcy Hunter emerged from last week’s junior country week series in Perth as the leading batter for the Eastern Goldfields Cricket Association’s under-14B Black team .

Hunter compiled 207 runs at an impressive 51.75 to finish sixth overall in that category.

It included a match-winning 65 off 93 balls last Friday against Bunbury and Districts in the side’s final game.

Overall batting honours in the division went to Eastern Districts’ Levi Heasman, who amassed 352 runs at 88.00 from Warren-Blackwood’s Owen Lee Steere (276 runs at 69.00).

His Warren-Blackwood teammate Haiden Lagana was third with 268 runs at 67.00 from Great Southern’s Jayden Jones (215 runs at 43.00) and West Pilbara’a Dhyey Patel (212 runs at 35.33).

Theodore Prosser was the team’s leading bowler with six wickets at 8.83.

Esperance’s Michael Nguyen was third overall among bowlers across the division with 10 wickets at 9.60.

Bunbury’s Sonny Dean and Eastern Distrcits’ Judd Cooper led the way, each with 11 wickets while Jobe Armstrong and Jaxon Clynk shared the EGCA’s coaches award.

Rhett Sowden’s big week for the EGCA’s under-14C team earned him the group’s batting and bowling awards.

His seven wickets at 6.57 was bettered only by Wellington Districts’ Fynn Martin (eight wickets at 9.00) and he also led the team’s batting with 68 runs.

Lachlan Hough received the coaches award.

Among the EGCA’s under-16 B Black team who finished fourth, Anthony Thomsen was seventh overall in batting with 142 runs at 23.67.

Teammate Reeshan Ghosh was superb with the ball in claiming a division-best 13 wickets at 8.38 and Callum Grace took the coaches award.