Wednesday 23rd July 2008

Lady Manners win the County under 12s Competition

Lady Manners School won the County under 12s schools competition with an exciting last-over victory over Ecclesbourne School.  

Played at Denby CC Lady Manners produced an excellent bowling & fielding display to restrict Ecclesbourne to 63 All Out from the allotted 20 overs. In reply to this the Bakewell school also found runs hard to come by & lost wickets at regular intervals. As the overs ticked by Ecclesbourne looked as though they were going to come out on top but in a frenetic finish Lady Manners came through with a boundary from the penultimate ball to secure the match. 

Lady manners will now go forward to represent Derbyshire in the National stages of the competition in 2009.

Monday 23rd June 2008

ASDA Kwik Cricket County Final

The ASDA Kwik Cricket County Final took place at Denby CC on Friday, 20th June. 

This day was the culmination of many kwik festivals which had been held in all districts throughout the County that had seen over 150 schools taking part in 2008.

The event was co-ordinated by Don Wilkinson and Mick Glenn.

The groups were won by Deer Park – Wingerworth representing North East Derbyshire; Coppice School representing Amber Valley; Dale School representing Derby City

The second stage of the competition saw the group winners play in the same format to decide 1,2 & 3 in the County. Teams who finished second played off as did teams who finished third. The ultimate winners were Dale School who narrowly defeated Coppice in the final game to secure the Derbyshire Crown.

The event was well supported by the ASDA events coordinators from 3 Derbyshire stores who attended with healthy snacks for all the players & officials. Also in attendance was Devon Malcolm always a popular figure in the county who mingled with all of the teams & was a true ambassador on the day. Devon capped the afternoon off by presenting the winners & runners up medals to the young players.

Dale School, the winning team pictured with Devon Malcolm

                                   Coppice Primary - the runners up

The DCB would like to thank everyone who helped out with the running of the event including Les Hall, Gareth Marshall, Ben Marvin, James Lowden and Nat Clarke and to ASDA for their support and for providing much needed refreshments on the day.