Page 55 - West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook Cricket Club Yearbook 2015-16

TAREE REPORT
During the first week of January our club once again sent an Under 16 team to the Stan Austin carnival at Taree.
This ought to be the shortest report in the yearbook, but I will give it a go to report something to you of the Taree carnival.
Brendan Flynn was coach and myself the manager. We all showed up with our club tour shirts, raring to go. Unfortunately the weather did not cooperate.
We were scheduled to play Hunter Valley on the Monday on a turf pitch in Forster. However due to the wet conditions this was moved to a synthetic pitch at another location in Forster. As we all drove in convoy from Taree to Forster I began to wonder whether I had heard the ground change instructions accurately. Not to worry though, as the sports news bulletin came on the car radio at the top of the hour they kindly announced that the match between West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook and Hunter Valley had been moved. Problem solved.
However what we found when we arrived was more rain – and the decision was made to move to Old Bar turf ground, where local reports indicated a break in the weather. It was short lived and the match was abandoned after around 30 overs. The boys though did gain useful experience removing and replacing covers.
Our team moved on to ten-pin bowling where Josh Banner scored a century – and indoor cricket against the Tamworth team - as the rain persisted.
By Tuesday lunchtime the organizers called the carnival off, as there was little prospect of the weather improving and the damage to grounds had already been done.
Despite this we still managed two team dinners, car park cricket at the motel and a couple of team BBQs.
Some stayed on to see the local sights while others dispersed on the Wednesday. Personally, I drove over to Tamworth where the U14s were playing, and the sun was shining.
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