Wrekin tumble out to a powerful outfit
Wrekin College's bid for Under-18 T20 glory was ended at the regional semi-final stage by a powerful Malvern College outfit.
Malvern batted first and scored an impressive 155-7 with wicketkeeper Ben Tegg hitting 71.
The Wrekin bowlers and fielders stuck manfully to their task against a very strong visiting team containing five players with Worcestershire second Xl experience.
Dillon Pennington and Brad Thornton (3-26) were the pick of the Wrekin bowlers with Pennington taking the key wicket of England Under-17 star Ben Twohig, clean bowled for a duck.
Chasing nearly eight an over to win, Wrekin lost wickets at regular intervals and only Ed Udale with 41 off 42 balls managed to get on top of a strong Malvern attack, with Liam Smith taking 2-15 off his four overs.
Wrekin's innings finished on 115-8 leaving Malvern winners by 40 runs.
Malvern then went on to comfortably win their national semi-final before losing to Hurstpierpoint College in the final.
An injury depleted Shrewsbury School side were edged out by Sedbergh School in the quarter-final of the School Under-17 National Competition.
Sedbergh scored an impressive 236-9 off their 40-over allocation. Tom Brunskill, one of six Under-15 players in the Shrewsbury team, was the most economical of the bowlers taking 2-38 off eight overs.
Charlie Cooke bagged two wickets with England Under-17 all-rounder George Panayi, Pat Jacob and Dan Lloyd claiming one each.
Shrewsbury made a good start in reply with George Garrett (24) and George Hargrave (63) putting on 49 for the first wicket in good time. They were well supported by Harry Adair (60) and captain Panayi (64 not out) but it was not quite enough as they finished on 233-4 leaving Sedbergh the winners by three runs.
Sedbergh then went on to beat Bromsgrove School in the semi-final.
