The Women’s Super 3’s Series continued this weekend, with the Scorchers taking one win and one defeat from games against both the Typhoons and the Dragons.
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Kim Garth’s team faced the Typhoons on Friday evening in a re-fixed T20 match, but fell agonisingly short of their modest target to give the Typhons a five run win. The win kept the Typhoons’ title hopes afloat, however unlikely.
By Sunday evening though, those title hopes had gone after the Scorchers bounced back and defeated the Dragons in a high scoring 50 over tie at North Kildare.
After winning the toss and deciding to bat first, the Scorchers got off to a disastrous start, with Anna Kerrison (4), Una Raymond-Hoey (8) and Kim Garth (1) all falling early to leave the series leaders 26-3.
Rebecca Stokell (3-46) had taken two of those early wickets, and could have had a third when Hannah de Burgh Whyte was caught well at point, but unfortunately for the Dragons the umpire had already called no-ball.
It proved to be a costly mistake as de Burgh Whyte went on to score 74 and forge a 152 run partnership with Meg Kendal before eventually falling to Stokell.
Kendal kept going though, and forged another hundred partnership with Robyn Lewis (38) on her way to a fantastic 125, which included 12 fours and came at a run a ball.
Those partnerships pushed the scoring rate up and saw the Scorchers reach 314-9 after a flurry of late wickets restricted scoring in the final three overs. That turned out to be in vain though, as a slow over rate saw the Dragons penalised and six runs added to their target.
Setting out in pursuit of 321 to win, the Dragons opened up with Mary Waldron and Laura Delany and they promptly saw the score move past 100 before a disastrous run out saw Waldron heading back to the pavilion just two short of a half century.
Delany then fell for 61 a few overs later leaving Cecelia Joyce at the crease with the required run rate starting to creep towards 8 and over.
When the game seemed like it was going to be too close to call Lucy O‘Reilly swung the match towards the Scorchers when she took three wickets in four balls to give her team the upper hand.
Cecelia Joyce stood firm and continued to push for the win, finishing 73 not out from just 64 balls, but as the overs began to run out, so did her partners, the final two being run out to leave the Dragons 71 runs short, 250 all out from 45.4 overs.
With three games left in the series, the Scorchers are currently leading with nine points, followed by the Dragons on five and the Typhoons with four. The next fixture in the series is another 50-over clash, with the Typhoons facing the Dragons at Pembroke CC on Sunday July 12th.
Pic: Mark Stokell
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