{"id":238228,"date":"2020-03-22T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/238228\/eagles-bag-another-win-for-the-season\/"},"modified":"2020-03-23T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2020-03-23T13:16:03","slug":"eagles-bag-another-win-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2020\/03\/22\/eagles-bag-another-win-for-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Another victorious weekend for the Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Elsburg Eagles Cricket Club continued their Easterns Cricket League campaign, recently.<\/p>\n<p>The club hosted Thokoza Cricket Club on March 8 in the Sunday Directors League.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Elsburg batted first and set a target of 250 runs for 10 wickets in their 50 overs.<\/p>\n<p>The top batsmen were Johan van Greunen with 75 runs not out, and Frank Williams with 39 runs.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Thokoza came in to bat and got 134 runs for 10 wickets in their 50 overs securing Elsburg a 116-run victory.<\/p>\n<p>The match\u2019s top bowler, with the man of the match award, was van Greunen with six wickets for 15 runs in eight overs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_238230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-238230\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-238230\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2020\/03\/IMG_6376_67090-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2020\/03\/IMG_6376_67090-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2020\/03\/IMG_6376_67090-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2020\/03\/IMG_6376_67090-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2020\/03\/IMG_6376_67090.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-238230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elsburg Eagles Cricket Club and Thokoza Cricket Club faced each other in the Easterns Cricket League\u2019s Sunday Directors League at the Elsburg Sports Complex on Sunday.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As the cricket season is at an end, the club\u2019s chairperson, Martiens Grobler, said they are looking for new members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/229328\/tough-weekend-for-eagles-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tough weekend for Eagles<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/234052\/eagles-aim-to-close-season-on-a-high\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eagles aim to close season on a high<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe would like to invite new players who want to join the club next season to come down to the club and have a talk with us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are looking at enrolling more junior and senior sides next season,\u201d said Grobler.<\/p>\n<p>He said the club is growing and they would like to get an idea of how many teams they can have next season.<\/p>\n<p>The club also recently had their AGM and elected a new committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The committee is as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Chairperson: Martiens Grobler<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Vice-chairperson: Len Jacobs<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Secretary: Carolina Jacobs<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Club captain: Theuns Herbst<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Senior additional member: Darren Van Tonder<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Junior additional members: Ruan Prinsloo and Edmund Ackerman<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Senior head coach: Johan van Greunen<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Junior head coaches: Theuns Herbst and Ruan Prinsloo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Hav<\/strong><strong>e a story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Contact the newsroom by emailing: Melissa Hart (Editor)<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-admin\/germistoncitynews@caxton.co.za\">germistoncitynews@caxton.co.za,<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>Leigh Hodgson (News Editor)<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"mailto:leighh@caxton.co.za\">leighh@caxton.co.za\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>or Busi Vilakazi (Journalist)\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"mailto:busiv@caxton.co.za\"><strong>busiv@caxton.co.za.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Also follow us on:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"anchor_post\" 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