Wellington go into the last round of Somerset League fixtures next weekend in second place and will be determined to hold on to this after their home match with Purnells; although Westlands claimed the title for 2010 following their five wicket win at Taunton Outcasts this has been a great second half of the season from Paul Short’s side with only one defeat in the last eight games and had the reverse fixtures of the last two weeks gone Wellington’s
Please make arrangements, where appropriate and necessary, to remove all tools and associated items from the Wellington Playing Field Pavilion by the end of the Bank Holiday Weekend. As the Pavilion will be used for football from Saturday 4th September we need to make the two back changing rooms good for those who will use this facility for winter sports.
Players should note the following playing arrangements for the four senior section matches that we have scheduled for September, The playing schedule is Saturday 4th September – Sunday League XI v North Petherton (a) Sunday 5th September – Sunday Non-League XI v Chard (a) Sunday 12th September – Sunday League XI v North Newton (a) Sunday 19th September – Sunday Non-League XI v Langport (a) Start times will be 1.30pm for the first three games and 1.00pm
P W L T Pts Taunton St Andrews 6 5 0 1 139 Wellington 5 4 0 1 117 North Newton 5 1 3 1 84 North Petherton 4 1 2 1 62 North Curry 5 0 5 0 56
P W L T Pts Chard 7 4 3 0 128 Minehead 4 3 1 0 84 Bridgwater 5 3 2 0 79 Wembdon 5 2 3 0 63 Street 5 1 4 0 63
Wellington Sunday XI kept up their own title winning ambitions in Division B of the Taunton and District Sunday League with this fine 74 run win over SCL Division Two club North Newton at home last weekend and will travel to Taunton St Andrews next weekend with a title decider of their own to contest. North Newton asked Wellington to bat on a soft track that was still recovering from the poor weather the 1st XI had suffered from the
Wellington 2nd XI were denied the chance to further benefit from the recent slip ups that have beset leaders Frome in Division Two of the Somerset League’s Reserves competition when their away match with lowly Wedmore was a victim of Saturday’s poor weather. The side had assembled for an 11.30am leave, but they only ever got as far as the Courtland Road Car Park when the call came through to say that the match had been called off. All this
Rain had the major say over the weekend as the race for the Somerset League title for 2010 ticked over another set of fixtures; all of the top three sides – Westlands, Taunton Outcasts and Wellington – saw rain wash their games away with no positive result been recorded by any of the contenders. Westlands game at North Petherton saw the Yeovil side get seventeen points and Outcasts obtained twenty points at Staplegrove and with Wellington getting the most from
Belvedere 2 v Purnells 2 Temple Cloud 2 v Wells 2 Butleigh 2 v Winscombe 2 Frome 2 v Langport 2 Wedmore 2 v Wellington 2
Staplegrove v Taunton Outcasts Barrington v Ashbrittle North Petherton v Westlands Wellington v Watchet Purnells v Belvedere