This year Indoor Cricket has been integrated back into the MISA Sport competition. The first team to take this sport on in Term 1 was the 7-9 Girls team. This team was made up of girls from varying abilities but all the girls had a great attitude to grow individually and as a team.

On the 26/3 the Girls won the MISA East Zone in which they beat St Patricks in a close final. Player of the match was Amber English for her consistent straight shots which boosted the team total greatly. It was great to see how the girls had bonded over the competition and worked well as a team to get the win.

As the East Zone Champions, the girls progressed to the Inter-zone finals. On the 2/4 the Inter-zone final occurred, where the 3 Zone Champions played off for the overall Championship.

Firstly, we played Macarthur Anglican. We batted first and set a very strong total of 133 with outstanding skins (batting pairs) from Emma Clarke and Jorga Carroll and Sofija Todorovska and Amber English, losing minimal wickets in their skins and scoring 45 and 36 respectively. The girls were then off to the ultimate start when bowling, with Olivia Searle getting a hat-trick in the first over. With continued tight bowling and excellent fielding, the girls restricted Macarthur to 76. Placing the girls in a great position for the championship.

Our second game was against Thomas Hassell Anglican College. The Magdalene girls won the toss and opted to bat first again. This proved to be the right decision with another great score of 136. Brianna Tipping and Morgan Gascoigne led the scores with the bat with the highest skin of 43. Our bowling again proved to strong for our opponents and the girls restricted THAC to 37. Again, our fielding skills and game awareness made it very difficult for our opponents to score. Amber English consistently demonstrated her strong fielding ability to play a major role in various wickets.

Well done to all the girls. A real team effort. You did yourselves and your school proud.

Congratulations Inter-zone Champions.

Emma Clarke

Jorga Carroll

Amber English

Morgan Gascoigne

Olivia Searle

Tara Small

Brianna Tipping

Lara Davies

Sofija Todorovska

Kind regards,

Mr Matthew Bubb