Outstanding Mackay junior cricketers Myles Cochrane and George Fortescue are living the dream.
Most Friday nights or Saturday mornings in the summer months you’ll find the talented 17 year olds starring for the Magpies White X1 in the Mackay Cricket Association’s Junior Under 17s competition.
You’ll also find the emerging colts stepping up a class on Saturday afternoons with the Magpies’ all conquering first grade team in the Poole Cup limited overs series.
The promising all rounders are two of the best young propects in the Mackay region and continue to produce the goods with bat and ball in both the junior and senior ranks.
Last Friday the pair guided the Whites to an impressive win over third ranked Brothers Under 17s at Great Barrier Reef Arena to keep the Magpies entrenched in second spot on the ladder.
Sharing the new ball, skipper Cochrane snared 3-18 off five overs and Fortescue (2-20 off five) including the prize wicket of top Queensland schoolboy rep Jack Law for one to restrict Brothers to 5-118 off their 25 overs.
The duo then opened the batting and piled on 48 runs before Fortescue was caught by Hayden Morrow off the bowling of Connor Muller for 27.
Cochrane showed his class with the bat – compiling a superb 60 off fifty six balls that included six boundaries before he was brilliantly run out by the sharp Morrow after earlier adding 77 runs for the second wicket with Thomas Rourke (17).
The Whites were dismissed for 155 with promising Brothers all rounder Lachlan Ipson bagging 4-25 in an impressive five over spell.
Earlier Brothers number four Wesley Homewood cracked a magnificent unbeaten 60 off sixty one balls that featured seven boundaries – sharing a 98 run partnership for the third wicket with Ipson (37).
At the same venue the following day both Cochrane and Fortescue played key roles in the Magpies’ first grade triumph over Walkerston.
The pair claimed four wickets between them to help skittle the Roosters for a meagre total of 73 with Fortescue grabbing 2-13 off four overs and Cochrane (2-14) as the undefeated Magpies booked a spot in the Poole Cup Grand Final.
In Under 15s action, emerging all rounder Cooper Newbery hammered an unbeaten 116 for Walkerston in their one day victory over Magpies White at George Gorrie Oval.
The talented skipper faced seventy five balls and smashed twenty boundaries in a super knock as the Roosters posted 6-159.
Newbery capped a stand out performance by snaring two wickets off four balls including star opener Henry Tully for 44 to help restrict the Magpies to 8-100.
He was supported by Jude Vella, who claimed 2-27 in a lively five over spell and quick Lawson Foster (1-9 off four).
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