Umina wins four grades to take shield

Umina District Cricket Club has won the Cattley and Hook Shield with a total of four wins in the six grades in the round against Woy Woy.

Umina and Woy Woy clubs competed for the shield during round 5 of district cricket competition.

The shield is named after Umina legend Steve Cattley and Woy Woy legend Bob Hook.

Woy Woy were the current holders of the shield and Umina were determined to win it back, according to Umina District Cricket Club publicity officer Mr Mark Smith.

"The first week saw Woy Woy's first grade scoring 204 with Colin Smyth getting 5/71 for Umina," he said.

"Week two saw Umina lose Ben Smith, Matt Jones and Simon Blake to the representative arena and Umina slumped to be all out for 196, with Scott Brown 75 and Mark Cattley 73 being the pick of the batsmen.

"Game one went to Woy Woy."

The loss saw Umina first grade slide down to fourth on the table.

"In second grade, Woy Woy batted first and scored 175, with Shane Burraston again the star with 5/32 and Greg Shirley 3/44 for Umina.

"Umina were cruising at 4/122 when the wickets started to tumble to be all out for 135. "Game two went to Woy Woy.

"Umina third grade bowled first rolling Woy Woy for 103 with Ryan Clement 4/16 and Jason Creese 3/13 being the pick of the bowlers.

"In the remaining overs, Umina went out to bat ending on 0/100 when the lightning and storms hit.

Stars again were Lachlan O'Donnell 38 and Nick Garnet 56 from the Under-16s.

Mr Smith said that week two saw Umina declare at 0/104 to take first innings points.

"Woy Woy returned to the crease and were immediately in trouble with a fine bowling performance form Jason Creese taking 5/40 and Ryan Clement 2/10, bowling Woy Woy out for 110 leaving Umina 110 off 24 overs for their third outright victory in a row.

"Umina were travelling well at 1/56 when the wheels fell off, ending up 9/92, so first innings points had to do to keep third grade at the top of the table.

"Game three went to Umina.

"Fourth grade rolled Woy Woy for 38, with Josh Wakem 5/17 and Steven Searston 4/6.

"Umina batted and scored 5/110 declared with Jamie O'Donnell scoring 38.

"Woy Woy's second innings was a better effort at 122, with Steve Searston backing up a fine performance in the first innings to get 4/23, ably supported by Tim Knight 4/23.

"This left Umina 50 runs to get for an outright victory which they achieved losing four wickets.

"Game four was won outright to Umina and the team went into the top four for fourth grade.

"In fifth grade, Umina batted first scoring 6/200 with Greg Conklin getting a well deserved 86 and Kurt Pride another good score with 46.

"Woy Woy were all out for 144 with Greg (Merv) Mathis 4/24 and visiting Englishman Liam Rumble 3/25.

"A good win by Umina fifths saw them sitting in third place on the ladder.

"Game five went to Umina.

"Sixth grade bowled first and Woy Woy scored 97 with Paul Griffiths the pick of the bowlers getting 5/16 and Peter Jones 5/21, Umina declared at 3/141 with Mick Grealy 50 being the best of the scores.

"In Woy Woy's second innings, they scored 147 Scott Aitchison 3/19 Peter Jones 4/32, leaving Umina 103 for an outright victory which they achieved, 1/119 Scott Aitchison 75 not out, Dave Munson 27 not out."

The win saw Umina sixths sitting fifth on the ladder.

"With first innings wins in thirds and fifths and outright wins in fourths and sixths, Umina regained the coveted trophy," said Mark Smith.

"During his speech to present the trophy, Steve Cattley said that he played for over 25 years for both clubs, and while he enjoyed playing cricket for Woy Woy, he loved playing cricket for Umina too.

"Fourth grade's Steve Searston was awarded Player of the Round with 4/6 and 4/23."

Mr Smith said that club captain Ben Smith had recently been selected to represent the Northern NSW Colts under-21 side, as one of only two Central Coast players selected.

Press release, 12 Dec 2006 Mark Smith, Umina Cricket Club