{"id":15239,"date":"2021-08-03T21:50:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T21:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/?p=15239"},"modified":"2021-08-04T09:16:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T09:16:07","slug":"u17s-win-zone-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/?p=15239","title":{"rendered":"U17s WIN ZONE TITLE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Our Under 17 side clinched the SWJCL Zone B league title after defeating Clydach by 6 wickets at Marespool this evening (3rd)!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The winning margin, apparently comfortable enough, masks a terrific game of cricket which could have gone either way until the very end!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Batting first, Clydach totalled 100-5 from their 20 overs. After being reduced to 4-2 early on, Clydach did recover somewhat. Mike Jarrett (2-11), Adam Lewis-Williams (1-13), Gethin Morgan (1-9) &amp; Tomos Williams (1-11) were the wicket-takers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Five an over at HQ is barely a par score for this age group, many of whom already play Senior league cricket. However, our visitors, who had not won a game this season, were not going to just go through the motions in the field. &#8220;Fight&#8221; is the &#8216;F&#8217; word for this historic club!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>In reply, we lost lost an early wicket..9-1. Captain Sean Davies (29, 5 fours) and Adam steadied some nerves before Clydach&#8217;s pressure saw wickets fall at 51 &amp; 63. Jack Rymer joined Adam to add 32 invaluable runs, before Jack was runout for 9..95-4 now! Adam was going well however, when he &amp; Tomos Williams combined to get the job done..Adam 44no (5 fours), Tomos a crucial boundary 4 not out!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>So, ok, MCC did win in the end..102-4, but with only two balls of the game remaining, it was that close!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>The reward is a home semi-final play-off tie against Maesteg Celtic next Tuesday (10th). The winners of the semi-finals will go through to contest the SWJCL U17 League Cup Final later this month.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><em><strong>WELL DONE TONIGHT, LADS..AND GOOD LUCK NEXT WEEK!<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Under 17 side clinched the SWJCL Zone B league title after defeating Clydach by 6 wickets at Marespool this evening (3rd)! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15239"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15250,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15239\/revisions\/15250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mumblescricket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}