Club claim convincing win

A Grade, Division 1

WONTHAGGI Club overpowered Nerrena in Saturday’s one day match at Wonthaggi’s McMahon Reserve.

Club started on its winning way when it won the toss and went in to bat first.

Entering at 1/17, Ben Walsh added 50 runs to the account before a catch from Josh Checkley had him sidelined. 

Batting midway through the order, captain Joel Brann led his team to victory with an impressive 87 runs. 

Multiple wickets were claimed by Josh Trease and Jarrod Hoy.

Club was sitting comfortably at 7/210 after its 40 overs.

Captain Mitchell Clark opened the batting for Nerrena and added 26 runs to the account.

Club’s fielding kept the pressure on Nerrena and dwindled the batting order down until Caine Salmon rounded out the innings with another 23 runs.

Mark McCall caused the most damage against Nerrena, claiming 4/20, whilst Jarvis Harvey took 3/23.

Nerrena was defeated with a total of 10/108.

Town threatens ladder leader

LEONGATHA Town held firm and managed to come away with a win over ladder leader Phillip Island at Scorpion Park.

Phillip Island won the toss and sent Town in to bat first.

Ron Abeysinghe started the innings strong with 38 runs before the wicket was taken by Timothy McNiven.

Dulaj Lakshitha Mendis Polwaththa Gallage and Rob Eddy contributed 29 and 27 runs respectively.

McNiven and Heath Womersley took three wickets each, leaving Town to defend 10/161.

A wicket claimed by Town’s Rhett Hume sent Brodie Johnston back to the sideline at 1/10 at the beginning of Phillip Island’s innings.

Daniel Mock stepped up to the crease and top scored with 55 runs.

Shiran Rathnayake contributed 34 runs.

Darcy Hume was Town’s leading bowler, taking 4/28.

Ron Abeysinghe also performed well, taking 3/24.

Phillip Island ended the innings 10 runs short with 10/151.

Brann shines but  Imps too strong 

CAPTAIN Koby Brann produced a 92-run effort, but OMK still went down to the Imperials on Saturday.

Brann’s innings fell short of a ton, as his wicket was claimed by Lachie Wright at 6/183.

Wright posed a threat to OMK’s line up, taking 4/42, backed by captain Jack Ginnane, who was responsible for three more fallen wickets. 

Mudassar Riaz and Noel Creed increased OMK’s tally with 34 and 31 runs respectively.

OMK wrapped up its innings with 8/201. 

Unfazed by the challenge ahead, Imperials’ opening batsmen Luke Rogers and Nick Eddy combined well to reach 34 and 55 runs respectively.

Mark Lafferty completed the innings with 46 not out.

Riaz, Peter Dell and Jake Cochrane were OMK’s multiple wicket takers.

The Imperials surpassed OMK’s score with 6/202.

Cobras outclass the Stingrays

A DETERMINED Korumburra side thwarted Inverloch at the Korumburra Recreation Reserve on Saturday.
Five wickets fell due to the bowling prowess of the Cobra’s Thilakaratna Dilshan, knocking out much of Inverloch’s batting side before any real damage could be done.

Jacob Strickland kept the Stingrays in the game with 20 runs before he was stumped.

Inverloch’s was left to defend 10/100 at the end of the innings.

Dilshan continued his run with a game winning 33 runs before Jesse Dugard took the wicket.

Tom Crocker and Shane Dole added 14 runs each.

Dugard was Inverloch’s top bowler, taking 2/27.

Other wickets were claimed by Harry Butcher, Andrew Donohue and Jake Dennerley.

Korumburra recorded the win with a score of 5/101.