What a tournament! The National Regional Youth Championships were held in Kempsey down in NSW from Jan 9-16. I was invited to play for the Northern Territory and, apart from 3 innings, had 100% participation in all 8 games.
We were undefeated up until the grand final against the Gold Coast. What a game! 13 innings over 3 1/2 hours. Dad was exhausted as he had already umpired an earlier game. I came on to pitch in the 4th innings with Gold Coast leading 4-1. I pitched 7 innings of middle relief and came out of the game with the scores tied at 5-5. It took Gold Coast three more innings to score the winning run, beating us 6-5.
The game stats can be viewed at the ABF website here and my individual stats can be viewed here.
This tournament was probably the best tournament I have played in, i was happy with the way I played throughout the whole tournament. It was a lot of fun to play with the NT team I and would love to get another grand final like this one.