{"id":5061,"date":"2018-05-25T14:24:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T13:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/?p=5061"},"modified":"2018-05-25T14:39:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T13:39:12","slug":"cricket-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/2018\/cricket-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Soroptimists Support Girls Cricket Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Boxmoor Wins the Girls&#8217; Under 13&#8217;s Cricket Festival\u00a0<a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/202-Cricket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5068\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/202-Cricket-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/202-Cricket-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/202-Cricket-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/202-Cricket-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/202-Cricket.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/200-Cricket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5066\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/200-Cricket-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/200-Cricket-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/200-Cricket-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/200-Cricket-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/200-Cricket.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/201-Cricket.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5067\" src=\"\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/201-Cricket-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/201-Cricket-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/201-Cricket-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/201-Cricket-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/files\/201-Cricket.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a weekend of wall to wall sunshine, and the joy of a Royal Wedding, Barbara Saunders and Helen Byrne from St Albans and District Soroptimists (SISTAs) had the pleasure of presenting a cup and\u00a0shield to\u00a0Boxmoor Cricket Club\u2019s girls&#8217; team, at a festival of girls&#8217; cricket held at Abbots Langley Cricket Club on Sunday 20th May.<\/p>\n<p>Five local girls teams took part in this Under 13\u2019s Festival. There were some good cricketing skills on show and the girls played their matches with enthusiasm and a competitive spirit. The winning team, runners up (St Albans Cricket Club) and their coaches received individual medals which Barbara also presented.<\/p>\n<p>Barbara spoke of the ongoing commitment of the St Albans Soroptimists to encourage and support girls&#8217; cricket in recognition of the pioneering contribution to women&#8217;s cricket of their late member Audrey Collins OBE. Audrey played cricket for England and left a legacy to promote the girls game. One part of Audrey&#8217;s legacy is the SOROPTIMIST AUDREY COLLINS GIRLS U13 CRICKET LEAGUE To read more about Soroptimist International St Albans and District&#8217;s support for girl&#8217;s cricket and Audrey&#8217;s legacy please see this web page\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/st-albans-and-district\/charities\/cricket\/\">www.sigbi.org\/st-albans\/charities\/cricket<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Girls&#8217; cricket is thriving in Hertfordshire thanks to the enthusiastic support of clubs, parents and local volunteers and St Albans Soroptimists are proud to be involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxmoor Wins the Girls&#8217; Under 13&#8217;s Cricket Festival\u00a0 During a weekend of wall to wall&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[381,7,403,14,9,402,8,44,10,41,72,123,12,60,11,13,99],"class_list":["post-5061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-club-news","category-club-projects","tag-abbots-langley","tag-audrey-collins","tag-boxmoor","tag-club","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-festival","tag-girls","tag-harpenden","tag-hemel-hempstead","tag-hertfordshire","tag-knebworth","tag-ladies","tag-soroptimist","tag-soroptimist-international","tag-st-albans","tag-women","tag-womens-organisation"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Soroptimists Support Girls Cricket Festival | News | Blog | Events | SI St Albans and District<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI St Albans and District : Blog &amp; News : Soroptimists Support Girls Cricket Festival : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI St Albans and District . 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