Delta Agribusiness competition front runners Come Alive Fitness Crusaders will be tested on Saturday when they travel to Cranfield Oval in Young to take on the Coyotes.
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The Crusaders will be missing at least three regulars with Matt Berkrey unavailable, while their two quicks, David Garness and Gene Kessel, are out injured.
Playing his first club match for the season will be Josh Purtell.
The Crusaders will be missing at least three regulars.
- Pat Kerin
The talented all-rounder showed his class in the Stribley Shield opener against Goulburn last Sunday scoring a match winning 51 not out.
Two other players returning to the side that did not play against Mimosa two weeks ago are captain Mark Elia and opening batsman Scott Meale
The Coyotes who last Saturday won their first match of the season defeating Mimosa in a close one by two wickets, while be looking to go back to back as they try to bridge the gap on ladder as are 10 points behind the Crusaders
Umpire is Jeff White.
MEANWHILE, in the Dunk Insurance Cup, Stockinbingal who have won the last four matches, travel to Nixon Park to take on the Temora Ex-Services Renegades.
This match will certainly be the match of the round as Renegades who were last season’s premiers.
The Renegades are currently second and Stockinbingal are third.
Cootamundra Ex-Services Magpies, who have lost their last two matches have dropped from first to fifth, will be looking to return to the winner’s circle as they host the Temora Bowling Club Tigers at Albert Park.
TWO of Cootamundra‘s most promising junior cricketers, George Harpley and Jed Guthrie, have been selected in the Northern Riverina teams to play in the Riverina carnival in Albury Wodonga commencing this Sunday.
Harpley will play in Northern Riverina Colston Scammell Shield side (under 16) , while Guthrie will play in the Gorrel Cup under 14 side.
Harpley is no stanger to playing in Riverina carnivals having played in the last two carnivals.
Last season when the carnival was also played in the Albury region, Harpley was the leading run-getter in the under 14 carnival, however surprisingly, he did not gain selection in the Riverina side to play in the Kookaburra Cup. Guthrie who is talented all-rounder is looking forward to his first Riverina carnival.
The carnival runs for three days in Albury and Wodonga.
At the conclusion of the carnival, Riverina teams will be selected to contest the Kookaburra Cup (under 14) and the Bradman Cup (under 16) which will be also held in Albury Border region from January 7 to 10.