A's fight hard but come up short

Still 75 runs behind from last week, with only 6 wickets left, but the skip had a bit of confidence at the start of the day with Aidan back in the team and a few batsmen to play with (And Old Boys losing 2 of their bowlers to prems, with Janice Fraser - Ru's missus - filling in). Phil and Jeff were in, and they started the day solidly, lasting about half an hour before Phil was cleaned up bowled for the second time in the match. Only 60 runs behind. An hour later and the lead was 40, Janice had just been pounded for 15 off an over and things were looking rosy, with Aidan on 70 off about 50, and Jeff in the 30's. Things were looking up. Unfortunately Star manage to get themselves out of good positions. Aidan went to their 9th change bowler, Josh didn't last long, Jeff was caught behind off Janice (after being dropped twice off her bowling), Shabir was skittled trying to put one to the moon, and JB cleaned up at the end. We lost 5/25 at the end for a 65 run lead. Never enough.
The guys tried their hardest in the field, and we managed to get 4 of them with Phil grabbing a couple, Jess one and Aidan one, but the previous week cost us. We would have only needed 50 more, but it was still an excellent fight back and I think we all ended the day pretty happy with some confidence going in to next weeks game against Te Rapa.

Points:
Aidan 3
Jeff 2
Jess 1