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3 in a row

RCA made it 3 in a row with victory at home at Nine Pins. Again batting first RCA scored 145/3. Shaun Collins again among the runs with 65 and John McCreddie adding 43 on debut keeping the tempo high. Nine Pins never really got going and ended up well short on 111/3. Don 1-21, Brian Allan 1-23 and Eddie Collins 1-25 took the 3 wickets to fall giving RCA a 7 point victory.

ROWLANDS CA WIN CUP FINAL!!

Rowlands CA won the cup final by an amazing 216 runs! Batting first Rowlands accumalted an impressive 246 for 4 in their 30 overs with the hung over Tim Stonnoch (89), Colin Tait (72*) & Shaun Collins 41 the run scorers. The reply for West End got off to the worst possible start when they lost a wicket with the first ball of the reply and they never recovered. They eventually stumbled to just 30 all out with all the bowlers chipping in with wickets. Andy Horner 4-0-13-2, Paul Muchall 4-2-5-5, Macca Coulson 4-3-5-2 & Don Catley 3.2-1-6-1. This wicket took Don a step closer to 500 wickets.

Rowlands win high scoring encounter despite the rain.

Rowlands CA completed a rain interrupted victory against ORP. Batting first on another gloomy evening Rowlands CA scored an impressive 192/2 in 14 overs with Tim Stonnock again leading the way with 64 from only 25 balls including 4 x 4s and 7 x 6s! Nick Tomlinson also batted well for 56 from 49 balls and not to be out done simon Curtis finished 40 not out and Paul Muchall 20 not out on debut.
ORP made a good attempt at the score however the rain eventually got the better of the game and forced the game to be called off with ORP 84 for 2 from 8.3 overs. With Dave Purvis collecting one wicket thanks to a well taken catch from Adrian Conway at long on and Dave Charlton took the other wicket with thanks to a brilliant one handed catch from Tim. The rain prevented ORP last dash at the score and Rowalnds a chance to pick up a couple of bowling points. However with Rowlands ahead on scoring rate a 7 point victory was claimed in the rain.

Rowlands defeat Aidan House in low scoring encounter.

29th June. Rowlands faced Aidan House at Bullocksteads on a gloomy evening and agreed to a 14 over game. Skipper Matt Hynd was nervous that the novel look RCA side of a bare ten, including three new faces from Tynemouth would not be good enough for a full blooded encounter. However, Aidan House themselves were below strength, also partially to do with the ODI at the Riverside. Matt won the toss and elected to bat, putting himself in the driving seat with welcomed back Nick Tomlinson as co-pilot. Unfortunately Nick was not so slick this time and went for a cheap 3 in the second over. Runs were clearly going to be difficult owing to a dodgy pitch and thick grassy outfield. Guy Scholes came and went for 5, Adrian Conway chipped in with a valuable 8 but only Matt was able to score consistently through a series of quick singles and with 2 fours. Justin Smart ducked out to a snorter first ball and then the Tynemouth contingent of Brian Smith, Peter McLeod and Omer Mahmood added a useful few runs but when Matt was caught at the wicket for 28 it looked like the score would be well short of something decent. A single batting point was teased out in the final total of 76-8. The early tight bowling of M. Brown and A. White, both 4 overs 1-13 was surpassed by Steve Felton who rattled through 3 overs with 4-12.

The unusual opening combination of Jeff Thomson and Don Catley cut straight to the jugular of Aidan House. Wickets fell at the rate of approximately one per over during these opening four over spells with Jeff taking 3-17 and Don 3-13 to leave the Housemen struggling at around 30-6 and well behing the low asking rate. Omer Mahmood and Nick Tomlinson finished off the job and the game was over after 10.3 overs and by 8:15, well ahead of the forecast heavy rain. There were excellent catches from Justin Smart, Jeff Thomson, Brian Smith and Adrian Conway which helped to accelerate the demise of the hosts and secure 9 points to push Rowlands well ahead at the top of the League.

Rowlands beat West End by 9 wickets @ Tynemouth.

West End batted first and posted what looked to be a competitive 130 for 8 with Dave Charlton taking 2-24 and Tony Dyer 3-31. This was however no where near enough as Shaun Collins 30 from 31 balls and the impressive Tim Stonnoch 95 not out from 49 balls took Rowlands home by 9 wickets in just 10.6 overs.