RSL 2-196 defeated SWAN HILL 10-69
RSL shook off their T20 blues with a commanding 127-run victory over Swan Hill on Saturday afternoon.
The Blues dominated from start to finish, with skipper Ryan Hinton leading the way with 83 at the top of the order, combining with Ben Hallam for a 112 run second wicket partnership. Hallam was equally as impressive, scoring an unbeaten 53 and showing that he will be a very handy inclusion into the RSL batting line-up this season.
The Swans were disappointing with the ball, not only struggling to make any real in roads into the RSL batting line-up, but also bowling 15 wides and 7 no balls throughout the innings.
In reply, the Swans found themselves in early trouble, with captain Cal Noonan dismissed for just three runs.
It didn’t get much better as the innings progressed, with Swan Hill at one stage losing five wickets for just six runs, as Michael Harrower and Pat Caldwell cleaned up the Swans middle order.
Brady Hogan (17) and Nathan McInerney added 32 runs for the ninth wicket to give the Swans some respectability, but it was far too little as they were eventually dismissed in the 29th over for just 69 – handing RSL a massive confidence boost heading into this weekend’s danger game against Ultima-TUF.
NYAH DISTRICT 5-165 defeated WANDELLA 10-126
NYAH District continued on their winning ways with a solid 39-run win over league newcomers Wandella under lights at Nyah on the weekend.
Drew Lloyd would have been hoping skipper Ben Shadbolt had have sent the Bombers instead after the first ball of the game from Ryan Barnes cannoned into Lloyd’s woodwork, with the visitors off to the perfect start.
The score soon went from 1 for 0 to 2 for 1 just moments later, when Charlie Boulton was caught out for just one, with the Demons in some early trouble. Dean Harrop and Mitch Grinham then set about rebuilding the innings, putting on 67 runs for the third wicket, before Grinham hit a return catch to Toby Gray, after scoring a determined 26.
Harrop continued blasting the Bombers attack to all parts, pushing the score along to 115 before he was dismissed for a well-made 66. Toomey (26), Oliver Boulton (16*) and Mackie Rogers (20*) all continued to tick the scoreboard over through the later overs, with the Demons eventually finishing their forty overs on 165.
Wandella then set about chasing down the Demons’ total and appeared to be cruising at 1 for 42, until Shadbolt removed both Gray (17) and Laine Gibbons (16) in a matter of balls. When Jackson Hopkins trapped Luke Murray (0) in front shortly after, the Bombers found themselves in real trouble at 4-48.
Captain Greg Dickson (21) tried his best to rescue the innings, but consistent wickets meant Wandella were unable to find that match-saving partnership they desperately needed, with the visitors eventually bowled out for 126, with eleven overs still to be bowled.
Ben Shadbolt, with figures of 3 for 14 off seven overs was the pick of the bowlers, along with youngster Charlie Boulton, who cleaned up the tail with 3 for 15.
ST MARY’S-TYNTYNDER 10-91 defeated WOORINEN 10-60
WHILE it may have been a rematch of the previous evening’s heart-stopping encounter, the return bout on Saturday afternoon had far more wickets – and fewer runs – for both St Mary’s and Woorinen.
Bailey Codling was unable to repeat his heroics from the night before and was the first man dismissed with the score at just 15 for the Saints.
Stefan Mangiameli was causing all sorts of headaches through the middle overs for the visitors, dismissing Jake Foster, Austin McKerrow and Charlie King, with St Mary’s-Tyntynder continuously losing wickets in clumps.
Riley Daniels (25) was the only batsman to make a score of any note, as the Tigers extracted their revenge on the disappointing loss the night before to have St Mary’s all out for just 91 runs, with Guri Singh (3 wickets) and Robert Rush (2 wickets) joining Mangiameli as the chief destroyers for the home side.
That’s where the party ended for Woorinen however, as they too found the going difficult with the bat. Corey Daniels with four wickets and Nathaniel Holmes-Brown with two ripped the Tigers top and middle order to pieces, taking wickets at regular intervals and not allowing the Woorinen batsman to build a partnership of any real note.
Not to be outdone, Dom Violi finished off the Woorinen tail, claiming three wickets of his own to bowl the reigning premiers out for a paltry 60 runs in what could only be described as a game where the ball absolutely dominated the bat.
