Junior cricketers from across the Northern Rivers zone will compete in the annual Junior Country Week carnival, starting Monday.
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Taleted young cricketers from the Bendigo, Shepparton, Goulburn Murray, Murray Valley, Seymour and Upper Loddon associations will play up to four days of cricket across nine age groups.
For the first time a under-14 girls competition will be played, with Goulburn Murray fielding two teams and Bendigo one.
Eight of the nine age groups play one-day matches, while the under-17 boys division features two Twenty20 matches per day.
The top two teams in each age group after three days of preliminary round matches qualify for Thursday's grand finals.
Draw for Monday's opening day of the carnival:
Under-14 (10.30am start) - Goulburn Murray v Murray Valley at Windridge Oval, Rochester. Shepparton v Bendigo at Deakin Reserve, Shepparton.
Under-16 (10.30am start) - Goulburn Murray v Murray Valley at Northern Oval, Kyabram. Shepparton v Bendigo at Mooroopna.
Under-17 girls (10.30am start) - Goulburn Murray v Shepparton at Bamawm. Bendigo bye.
Under-17 boys - (10am and 2pm start) - Murray Valley v Goulburn Murray at Cobram. Seymour v Upper Loddon at Golden Square. Bendigo v Shepparton at Bell Oval.
Under-15A - (10.30am start) - Murray Valley v Goulburn Murray at Barooga. Bendigo v Shepparton at Weeroona Oval.
Under-13A - (10.30am start) - Murray Valley v Goulburn Murray at Katunga. Bendigo v Shepparton at Marist College.
Under-13B - 10.30am start) - Goulburn Murray v Murray Valley at Brose Recreation Reserve. Shepparton 1 v Bendigo at Mooroopna. Seymour v Shepparton 2 at Avenel.
Under-15B - (10.30am start) - Goulburn Murray v Seymour at Cooma. Shepparton v Bendigo at Vilbert Reserve, Shepparton.
Under-14 girls (10.30am start) - Bendigo v Goulburn Murray 1 at Shadforth Park. Goulburn Murray 2 bye.
Bendigo District Cricket Association squads:
Under-13A - Taj Taylor (Eh) captain, Harry Purcell (SM) vice-captain, Eamon Austin (BUCC), Jacob Boucher (Eh), Oscar Cail (BUCC), Xavier Grant (SM), Vailen Hickman (Bgo), Lachie Magee (SM), Maysen Pettersen (Eh), Byron Ritchie (SM), Clayton Smith (KF), Noah Willits (BUCC), Jonty Yates (S'saye).
Under-13B - Miller Armstrong (S'saye) captain, Zachery Hinck (Eh) vice-captain, Louis Eddy (SM), Felix Keane (Bgo), Lachlan McKay (KF), Oliver McKenzie (MG), Lenny McNamara (BUCC), Khai O'Hehir (Eh), Lewis Ritchie (SM), Thomas Seipolt (SM), Tom Smith (SM), Riley Travaglia (BUCC), Drew Warren (MG). Emergency - Jack Burns (KF).
Under-14 girls - Skye Barker (SM), Maddy Best (WH), Abbey Burns (SM), Ruby Demeo (SM), Zoe DiCamillo (S'saye), Natalie Flood (Mar), Steph Mayes (S'saye), Megan Pearce (Bgo), Sarah Piotrowski (WH), Zoe Ross (B'go), Abby Scott (WH), Kylah Virtue (MG), Megan Walker (BUCC).
Under-14 boys - Kyen Burill-Grinton (HNE), Archie Edwards (SM), Jett Grundy (S'saye), Oliver Hannaford (BUCC), Gus Hay (BUCC), Oliver McMurray (WH), Anderson Pithie (Bgo), Sebastian Rossi (SM), Nick Rowley (Bgo), Tobie Travaglia (BUCC), Harvey White (Eh), Jake Wight (KF), Jimmy Wilkinson (GS), Lachlan Wilson (HNE).
Under-15A - Jack Byrne (BUCC), Max Cahoon (BUCC), Noah Cain (KF), Jasper Cheesman (S'saye), Archer Day (BUCC), Judd Gilchrist (HNE), Tyler Green (Bgo), Tadgh McBurney (SM), Jedd O'Keefe (S'saye), Henry Rathjen (BUCC), Brodie Reaper (SM), Ben Trew (Eh), Jack Wilson (HNE).
Under-15B - William Bowles (GS), Brandon Columbus (Eh), Nathan Di Camillo (S'saye), Lachlan Harris (BUCC), Mason Horne (S'saye), Will Mannes (S'saye), Jack McCullough (SM), Orin McKay (KF), Lachie Nicholson (Bgo), Cooper Orton (KF), Liam Rielly (KF), Lachlan Ross (GS), Declan Stevenson (BUCC). Emergency - Jack Bell (S'saye).
Under-16 - Xavier Austin (BUCC), Louis Banfield (BUCC), Charlie Edwards (SM), Deacon Evans (Bgo), Will Gilmore (SM), Ed Gingell (Bgo), Bayden Hunter (S'saye), Sam Lowes (WH), Jack Pysing (SM), Jack Smith (SM), Callum Thompson (SM), Aston Wilson (S'saye).
Under-17 girls - Georgia Barnett (Bgo), Paige Beamish (S'saye), Amy Bilsborow (S'saye), Ella Flavell (WB), Dannielle Flood (Mar), Hannah Flood (GS), Arielle Glatte (WB), Ella Griffin (Bgo), Lila Keck (Bgo), Emily Leach (Bgo), Taylah Murphy (WB), Mackenzie Porter (WB), Lindsay Simpson (Bgo).
Under-17 boys - James Barri (SM), Aidan Clemens (BUCC), Brodie Coombs (Sh), Rowan Fox (S'saye), Jasper Langley (Sh), Max McMurray (WH), Patrick Murphy (SM), Tom Perrin (SM), Reilley Porter (Sh), Tom Purcell (SM), Nash Robinson (Bgo), Jaidyn Taylor (Bgo), Wil Touhey (SM).
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