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Baywide Blast Results

Baywide Blast Results

Posted: Friday, 23 March 2018

John Paul College won the inaugural Bay of Plenty Cricket Junior Secondary Blast, when they defeated Aquinas College, in the final played at the Alice Johnson Reserve at Papamoa on Wednesday 21st March 2018.

The Twenty 20 competition for Year Nine and Ten students was put in by Bay of Plenty Cricket, to grow the junior secondary pathway in the Bay of Plenty region. Competition took place on two successive Wednesdays in March.

John Paul College and Aquinas College entered two teams apiece, along with Katikati College and two Eastern Bay of Plenty Schools in Trident and Whakatane High Schools.

JPC batted first and reached the 80 run mark for the loss of a solitary wicket. The Aquinas bowler upped the ante to remove the Rotorua School for 114 in the 20th over. Cohen Stewart (32) and Viren Patel (24) put on a meritorious second wicket stand of 62.

The Veitch twin brothers quickly hit their stride with the ball and had the Western Bay School in some real trouble, at 25 for the loss of three wickets, after ten overs. Aquinas College batted out their over for the loss of six wickets, but finished some 31 runs short of victory, to hand John Paul College the inaugural the inaugural Baywide Blast title.

In other Baywide Blast Finals Day matches, Trident High School defeated the John Paul College Invitation XI to finish in third place with Aquinas Blue beating Whakatane High School in the fifth place playoff.

The growth of the game at Aquinas College in the last decade, was highlighted by the two sides that took part, in addition to the school’s First XI who were playing in the ND First XI Cup finals week in Hamilton.

Bay of Plenty Cricket were keen to recognise the participation of Whakatane High School, in a BOPCA school competition, for the first time for a considerable number of years.

BOPCA Junior Secondary Baywide Blast 14th & 21st March 2018

Final: John Paul College 114 (Cohen Stewart 32, Viren Patel 24) defeated Aquinas College 83/6

Third Place: Trident High School defeated JPC Invitation XI

Fifth Place Aquinas Blue defeated Whakatane High School

Seventh Place: Katikati College

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