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Rowe and Loat scoop top prizes - Southern Electric Cricketers of the Month
Mike Vimpany - 6 June 2001
South Wilts skipper Russell Rowe is hoping that luck will be on his side on Saturday June 9 as he pursues his dream of a hat-trick of Southern Electric ECB Premier League hundreds at Liphook & Ripsley.
It will be the third time in four seasons Rowe goes in search of three centuries on the trot.
In 1998, he scored back-to-back hundreds against Romsey and Hambledon. The following season, he dreamed of the 'treble' again - but bagged a duck at Waterlooville, after scoring successive centuries off the Liphook and Alton attacks, respectively.
Ironically, Rowe went without a single ton in either Minor Counties or Premier League cricket last season.
But the big man has burst back into form this summer, notching 117 at Burridge a fortnight ago, and 103 against Hungerford last week.
His other two scores this season have been 68 (v Bashley Rydal) and 53 (v BAT Sports).
Rowe's run spree - he is currently the leading batsman in all three divisions with 341 runs in four innings - has earned the Bemerton captain the Southern Electric Cricketer of the Month prize for May.
Phil Loat's 12 wickets - he bagged five in one match against Bashley - netted the Havant left-arm spinner the Premier 1 bowling prize.
Lymington's Ben Craft will receive the Premier Division 2 batting award after a run strewn opening month, which began with a half-century at Old Basing and continued with a blistering 139 assault on the Hambledon bowlers.
Craft went on to make 72 at United Services and 42 in Lymington's win over Trojans.
Cove seamer Matt Smith twice grabbed five-wicket hauls for the Farnborough club - spells of 5-22 and 5-19 sinking Easton & Martyr Worthy and Old Basing, respectively.
Hard-hitting Graham Barrett, from St Cross Symondians, was the leading Premier 3 run maker), while Julian Ballinger, who led relegated Alton away to a four-match winning start, claimed the bowling prize.
Ballinger routed Waterlooville with a spell of 7-19 on the opening day of the season, and went on to bag seven more victims as Alton defeated Bashley(Rydal) and Portsmouth II.
Leading batsmen and bowlers (after June 2 2001) -
Premier 1
Batting : 341 Russell Rowe (South Wilts), 310 Adam Loader (Bashley Rydal), 230 Richard Kenway (BAT Sports), 213 Damien Shirazi (BAT Sports), 200 David Jackson(Burridge), 195 Dominic Carson (Havant), 190 Neil Thurgood (Bashley Rydal), 172 Matt Swarbrick (Bournemouth), 171 Dave Banks (BAT Sports), 166 Jez Goode (Calmore Sports).
Bowling : 12 Phil Loat (Havant), 12 Paul Jenkins (Burridge), 11 Neil Taylor (Bashley Rydal), 11 Joe Wilson (Bournemouth), 10 Tim Wheatley (Liphook), 10 Peter Waite (Bournemouth).
Premier 2
Batting : 329 Ben Craft (Lymington), 236 Charles Forward (Old Tauntonians), 226 Tim Richings (Sparsholt), 226 Gary Hounsome (US), 206 John Geoghegan (US), 197 Brian Clemow (Lymington), 188 Neil Trestrail (Lymington).
Bowling : 11 Matt Smith (Cove), 11 Ian Turner (Hambledon), 11 Nick Wood (Old Tauntonians), 10 Peter Hayward (Portsmouth), 10 Jason Carr (Lymington), 9 Andy Birch (Easton), 8 Mark Stone (Easton), Paul Douglas (Trojans), 8 Glyn Treagus (Lymington), 8 Gary Shotton (Lymington).
Premier 3
Batting : 236 Mike Howard (Leckford), 214 Keith Lovelock (Hook & Newnham), 206 Stewart Magee (Gosport Borough), 201 David Wheeler (New Milton), 179 Graham Barrett (St Cross), 173 Shane Merkel (Flamingos).
Bowling : 19 Nathan Collins (Gosport Borough), 15 Julian Ballinger (Alton), 13 Stan Rudder (Waterlooville), 11 Dave Greetham (Winchester), 10 David Wheeler (New Milton), Martin Taylor (Winchester).
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