Although coming up short Wellington U13 were more competitive in their Taunton and District Youth Leaguye U13 11 a-side west division match at Gypsy Lane on Friday evening. On winning the toss Vale elected to but on a fine evening and soon at the scoreboard ticking over as Wellington’s new ball trio of Oliver Hansard, Lewie Harrison and Tom Hopkins couldn’t make any inroads and it wasn’t until Oliver Buddin came into the attack with the score on 47 that

Wellington U11 Blacks held on for 2 run victory as they took Bagborough’s 100% record on The Quantocks, on Sunday morning. Batting first the visitors found runs in short supply as opening pair Robin Hill and Flossie Hillman and then Alex Acton and Lucy Adams were pegged back by the accurate home attack so by the innings mid-way point only 211 runs were on the board. Ben Bridden and William Box were next in and aided by a few extras

Wellington Reds U11s side continued where they left off last week with a fine 58 run victory when Staplegrove visited The Playing Field on Sunday morning. Opting to bat first Will Crossley was first in on the act stroking 2 fine boundaries and partnering Oscar Milton they saw the score to 217 at the end of the 4th over. Oliver Hutchings and Jonah Richardson found things a little tougher as the ‘Grove bowlers came back in to it with 3

Next Tuesday (4th June) sees Wellington’s senior youth side will have their biggest game for several years when they host Taunton Deane U15s in the County Cup Semi Final at Wellington Playing Field with a scheduled start time of 6pm. Wellington have so far seen off Street and a talented North Petherton side and so will be hopeful of a good performance whilst the visitors had a First Round bye, but saw off Crewkerne in the last round. Ilminster will

Wellington’s senior youth team progressed to the semi-final of the County Youth Cup for their age group with a fine 44 run victory at a sunny playing field last Tuesday evening. Tom Shannon, on calling correctly, had no hesitation in electing to have first use of a fine track and the best of the light so Nathan Roberts and Jacob Hurry set about building a useful target. They had taken the score into the 30s when Hurry was first out

Wellington Under 15s lost their 100 % record in a tight game at Taunton on Sunday morning. Batting first, the visitors took their score to 12 before ‘skipper Alex Derbidge was bowled, which brought Callum Hendy to join Jacob Hurry at the crease. These 2 batted sensibly in adding the largest stand of the innings before Hurry fell for 13 and Ben Wardell then made 12 to take the score into the 50s. Ollie Hunt joined Hendy who tried to

Wellington Reds U11 got their 1st taste of victory this season with a 43 run victory at The Playing Field on Sunday morning as Taunton Rubies were the visitors. The visitors offered Wellington 1st use, so Jonah Richardson and Oliver Hutchings opened up striking 3 boundaries between them, but tight bowling kept the runs in check as 3 wickets fell. Charlie Crossley and William Lyon-Taylor were next in and worked the ball around nicely to take the total to 230

Wellington’s development U11 team travelled to Over Stowey for a Under 11 west Division ‘B’ fixture on Sunday morning in the Taunton and District Youth League. With around 10 players from the 2 teams experiencing hard ball matches for the first time the future of the game looks rosy for both clubs. Stowey opted to bat first in bright sunshine and soon took the attack to Wellington as their best players batted together to strike 6 early boundaries. Wellington held

Wellington U13s had another tough evening when they headed for the coast last Friday to face Minehead in a Taunton and District Youth League fixture. On calling correctly James Weymouth had no hesitation in inserting the hosts and gave the new ball to Oliver Hansard and Tom Hopkins and it was Hansard who got first blood, when he had Joel Savage bowled for 12 when the score was 24. Hopkins again bowled well only conceding  8 runs, but it was

Wellington U 13’s had a tough task when they took a trip to The Wyvern Club on Tuesday evening for a rearranged County Cup match against a side who last year reached the last 4 nationally. The ‘Saints’ opted to bat first and soon took the game to the visiting attack as their top 5 batsmen all reached the retirement score of 30 and it wasn’t until the score reached 84 that the first wicket fell as Patrick Cole caught