NATALIE HEAP has made quite an impact in the male dominated North Wales Cricket League after being introduced into Conwy Cricket Club's 2nd team this season.
Thought to be the only woman playing in the league, the 17-year-old has taken 12 wickets for 35 runs in the last four matches in which the Conwy team have netted 38 out of a possible 40 points to open a big lead at the top of Division Five.
In fact, teams in the Conwy borough lead three of the six divisions with three others in the top two. There is a full round-up of all the local cricket stories of the week in this week's Weekly News.
Rhos-on-Sea are the only team to make it eight wins out of eight in the Colwyn and Llandudno District Bowling League. Get up to date with all the North Wales bowls news, including another fine win for the Wales men's county team, plus all the local golf, darts and pool results and news of Colwyn Bay school teacher Rhian Davies who bravely fought off illness to win the Welsh Ladies Triathlon title.
Seventeen different sports are featured this week, and the junior sports page features Penrhyn Bay Reds Under-12s, who won the Colwyn and Aberconwy Junior Football League's Under-13s League Cup, Colwyn Bay Bullets Under-11s who were cup finalists in the North Wales Girls Football League, three members of the Llandudno Karate Association who have been successful at recent grading sessions, and news of eight North Wales youngsters picked to play for a European team at an international Under-16s Rugby League tournament in Serbia later this month.

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