Sport
16 December, 2022
Band musters numbers
JUNIOR cricketers are back on Wedderburn’s Market Square turf wicket. Wedderburn Band made its junior cricket season debut on Saturday, ending a run of false starts and overcoming challenges of raising a team in the Upper Loddon junior...
JUNIOR cricketers are back on Wedderburn’s Market Square turf wicket.
Wedderburn Band made its junior cricket season debut on Saturday, ending a run of false starts and overcoming challenges of raising a team in the Upper Loddon junior competition.
Club stalwart Bob Steel has taken up the coaching reigns, adding to his work preparing the wicket.
“There were Saturdays when we could only muster three or four or five players. On Saturday we had nine to take the field,” Steel said.
“There’re keen and hopefully we can keep the players together and play matches for the remainder of the season.”
Steel said the youngsters were training after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Upper Loddon secretary Michael Rose welcomed the return to play of Wedderburn juniors.
While Wedderburn’s matches will not be for premiership points this season, Rose said it was pleasing to have a fourth side back in the junior competition. “It means all our clubs can play every week,” Rose said.
Boort Yando withdrew from the competition at the start of the season when the club could not sign up enough youngsters.
The temporary absence of Wedderburn from fixtures had reduced Upper Loddon to one junior game a week.
The Turner brothers Nash, Aihen and Zavier were among Wedderburn’s best on Saturday in the first match of the season against Bridgewater.