Crows’ find runs against Kangas
Longwarry 247 v Hallora
Longwarry continued the WDCA runfest trend with a big score over Hallora on the weekend.
Winning the crucial toss, and top-order had a field day on their home turf with Randall Mitchell (63) the catalyst early. Dom Pullen (57) and Scotty Kelly (42) made the most of Mitchell’s good work through the middle of the innings, as the Crows set the platform to launch late. A tail-end collapse kept them to 247, as Alex Henshall (3-34) ensured the score wouldn’t blow out towards 280, with Longwarry potentially ruing the three overs they weren’t able to face come next week. Garfield-Tynong 4/280 v Western Park Garfield-Tynong has put Western Park through the torture chamber at home on the weekend, dominating proceedings with the bat. Facing a young team, last year’s Division 1 wooden-spooners showed their class, as all six batsmen that were required proved far too good for the young Warriors. Matthew Dodman (98) played a true captain’s knock, batting for four hours as he fell agonizingly short of a chanceless century, falling to Patty Ireland (2-58) looking for the runs to bring up triple figures.
Dodman was well and truly supported by JPR Umayanga (27), AK Tyrone (25), and Isaac Braaksma (22) as Western Park were unable to gain any traction, before a whirlwind 97-run stand from Tanay Katarey (66*) and Tate Burgmann (33*) dominated the last hour, pushing the Titan’s total to 4-280.
Iona 7/361 v Jindivick Jindivick’s struggling bowling attack took another brutal blow on the weekend, as they were thoroughly dominated by Iona. Graeme Rankin (49) and Wade Haysom (33) got things rolling early for the Swamp Tigers, before Liam Lenders (42) and Nick Felstead (33) ensured that the Jumping Jacks were unable to gain any momentum throughout the day.
Harry Moore (3-57) fought hard to peg things back through the middle, and was relatively successful, however, it was a monstrous final two hours that proved to be the difference for Iona. Luke Ferguson blasted 93 off just 77 balls to utterly annihilate his foes, whilst Kieran Lenders added a quickfire 60 of his own, as a total that looked like it may reach 250 went north of 350, one of Iona’s greatest days with the bat finally coming to a close with the total 7-361.
Catani 92 v Drouin 56
The only bowler-dominated day in the top two divisions this weekend has seen Catani claim a wild first-day victory over rivals Drouin.
Batting first on a pitch that offered something for the bowlers, the WDCA’s newest team had a rare failure with the willow as only Daniel Vela (36) made a score of note for the ladder-leaders.
Mitch Smith (4-26) showed his class, as did Mitch Goodwin (4-31), with the experienced pair dominating to remove Catani for just 92. Drouin seemingly would’ve aimed for victory on day 1 and expected it, however, Catani fired back viciously with the ball. John Perry (21) fought hard, but the likes of Sam Wyatt (3) were unable to fire, as Tyler Molloy (6-8) went ballistic to set up an unlikely victory. The nagging right-armer created a collapse of 10-30, as he and Josh Miller (3-15) routed Drouin for just 56, giving them the six points (for now) heading into an intriguing second day.