Greetings, Rovers Fans!

Welcome to another exciting edition of our Rovers News Update! This past weekend showcased exceptional performances across the board, with victories in all three senior grades. A special shoutout to Stuart Prest for his outstanding 101 not out in 3rd grade—truly commendable!

Stay tuned for a comprehensive rundown of highlights, scores, and updates from the recent matches.

A message from Coach Phelps: A massive congratulations to our juniors for a phenomenal weekend. It’s truly inspiring to witness numerous runs being scored across different Tiers. All the hard work you little legends are doing, is undeniably paying off! Keep up the excellent work, and we’ll see you all on Wednesday! 

Let’s maintain the winning momentum! A reminder that Jake and the incredible team from The Hurtlocker Fitness are hosting weekly fitness training sessions. Mark your calendars for every Wednesday at 4:45 PM, gearing up for a 5 PM start. This isn’t just an opportunity to stay fit but a chance to maximize your time while your kids are in training. For the unbeatable price of $10 per session, join in on the fitness fun. Conveniently make payments to one of our dedicated committee members. It’s the perfect way to stay active, healthy, and connected with the vibrant Rovers community.

See you all on the field!

SENIOR RESULTS

1st Grade
Rovers Twomey Schriber property Group V Cassowary Coast – WON!!

Our 1st grade side took on Cassowary Coast. Unfortunately we lost the toss on a very batting friendly wicket. 2 quick wickets were followed by a 100 run partnership from C/Coast. Some tight bowling after the drinks break saw a breakthrough which exposed the lower order of the C/Coast side. Andrew Phelps finishing with 4 wickets, Brenton Edwards 2 wickets while Seth McGinty and Marcus Berryman kept things tight without much reward. With 158 required McGinty (71*) made light work of the total along with contributions from Phelps (36) and Berryman (37*). Great resilience by the side to fight back and take a bonus point win.

2nd Grade
Red Beret Hotel Rovers v Mulgrave Punjabi  -WON!!

The mighty 2nd Grade took on Mulgrave Punjabs in a must win game. Mulgrave won the toss and decided to bat first on a pretty flat deck. Up stepped Thomas King for the first over of the game blasting their top order out of the water to be on a Hat trick in the first over. Wasn’t able to jag the hatrick to finish on figures of 4/13 off 7 overs, Rob Thresher was outstanding as well picking 1/3 off his 6 overs and the Wild Thing picking up a 2 fa. We rolled them for 82 all out and got the runs just after drinks giving us a bonus point. Fantastic effort by the boys and a well deserved win going into next week’s bye round
 
3rd Grade
FGF Development Rovers v 3 Norths – WON!!

3rds Dominated Norths – Batting first Dayne Margiotta and Thomas King  got us off to a solid start. Enter the crease Stuart Prest, the experienced batsman showed his class with 2 good partnerships with Rodney Stradford and Seth Diedricks and went on to score a very good unbeaten 100 smashing a 4 in style on the last ball of the innings. Rovers scored a very good total of 4/214 off their allotted 35 overs. A tidy fielding display and a great opening bowling partnership of Thomas King and Dayne Margiotta this time with the ball taking 5 wickets between them set us up to dominate n bowl Norths out for 84. Zak Akiz and Dhbas Bhandari also bowled well for a couple of wickets too. A great day to wear the green in the 3rds.
 

JUNIOR RESULTS – TIER 1

Tier 1
Rovers Red v BRCC Blue
The rovers redbacks took on Barron river at Smithfield. The boys tried hard all morning but Barron were a little bit more experienced than us and deserved their win – 133 to 75. Riley was our best bat with 15 and got 2 for 15 with the ball. Aadit bowled tightly with 1-11 off 3. Chad’s direct hit run out was a highlight.  A big improvement in skills from last week was evident.

Tier 1
Rovers Green v Mulgrave Edmonton
Tier 1 Rovers Green played Mulgrave Edmonton.  Mulgrave Edmonton won the toss and sent Rovers Green in to bat.
 
The Rovers batted strongly losing only 2 wickets and piling on 106 runs for their 20 overs. Top scorers were Eamon (18), Alex (16) and Toby (15). Rovers Green then bowled tightly, limiting Mulgrave Edmonton to 44 runs and taking 7 wickets in the process. Best bowling figures were Jarvier 1/2 off 2 overs and Zac and Finn who both took 1/3 off 2 overs.
 
Player awards went to Eamon for a great batting display and Liam for consistent batting and bowling.

Tier 1
Rovers Gold v BRCC White

JUNIOR RESULTS – TIER 2

Tier 2
Rovers Red v Atherton Gold

Rovers red won the toss and elected to bat. Sean top scored with 18 not out, and Cooper saw out his 30 balls with 11 runs of his own. Rovers red almost batted out the overs falling just short in the 28th – all out for 83.  Atherton batters showed great discipline and patients – defending the good balls and putting away the bad ones. Jake took 2 late wickets, but the damage was done. Atherton took the spoils in the 14th over.
 
Player of the match awards went to Sean, Cooper, and Eli.

Tier 2
Rovers Gold v Mulgrave Edmonton JHC

Tier 2 Rovers Gold played against Mulgrave Edmonton JHC. Mulgrave won the toss and elected to bat first. The Rovers boys bowled well throughout sharing the wickets around. Darcy, Riley and Nate all ended up with 2 wickets each, bowling Mulgrave out in the 26th Over for 86 runs.  The boys batted well and were fortunate enough to be able to keep batting once we passed their score ending up with 2/125 after 30 overs. The 2 standout batters were Lucas with 36 runs and Jesse with 24 runs.
Darcy and Nate picked up the player awards for the week.

Tier 2
Rovers Green V Norths Boys 

JUNIOR RESULTS – TIER 3

Tier 3
Halpin Partners Rovers v Mulgrave Toads – Won!!

We won the toss and went into bowl.
Our first game of the season and our bowling was on par. We had Mulgrave all out for 61 with Taj, Ian and Cooper all taking 3 wickets each. Then it was time for us to bat with Ollie and Ian making our winning runs with 1 for 62, since it was our first game back we played out the overs with our unofficial total 4/210 with every single team member making a great contribution to the team. ( Ollie and Cooper both making over 50)Thanks to Brodie, Ben and Carter for helping us out today. With Ian, Ollie and Cooper taking out the awards for best players this week. Thanks to Jarred for umpiring, with beautiful weather, welcome back to cricket season.

Tier 3
Super Global Services Rovers v Mareeba Bandits – Won!! 

T3 Super Global headed to Mareeba for their game this week. The team put on a super batting performance will all top 5, contributing to the 187 from 29 overs. The stand-out performer was Will Palmer with 57 no. In response, Mareeba put up a spirited effort that was highlighted by a dazzling 126 no from Ryan Jaz that left them just 10 runs short of the target. Top Bowler for Rovers Shivi with 2-8 from his 3 overs to turn the match late on.