Runs and wickets still at stake

Marlborough’s Falcons and Stoke Nayland are already locked in for the following weekend’s Top of the South Kelvin Scoble Trophy premier one day club final.

It means that everyone might be expected to simply be going through the motions in Saturday’s final round, although there’s still plenty at stake for both teams and individuals as the club season draws to a close.

Both the Falcons and Stoke Nayland will be keen to enter the final with winning momentum behind them. In Stoke Nayland’s case, that also means taking on Wakatu in Sunday’s Nelson 50-over final at Saxton Oval, just a day after completing their Kelvin Scoble Trophy round robin series against Waimea Toi Toi United at Jubilee Park.

The Falcons head to Ngawhatu Park to take on Nelson College, while Wakatu will also be looking to take some sort of edge into Sunday’s final against Stoke Nayland when they host Wanderers at Victory Square on Saturday.

In the day’s other remaining fixture, Athletic College Old Boys are at home to the Marlborough Dolphins at the Botanics.

Meanwhile, there are still runs and wickets on offer for Nelson’s players, with Wakatu batsman Campbell McLean’s century against the Dolphins in Blenheim last Saturday shunting him to the top of the Vonda Edwards Trophy batting competition.

Mclean’s 107-run innings pushed his aggregate through to 491, just nine clear of Wanderers’ Joe O’Connor who missed last week’s action.

Stoke Nayland seamer Dylan Eginton has maintained his lead in the Syd Guppy Cup bowling competition and now sits on 33 wickets, three ahead of WTTU seamer Tom O’Neill who went wicketless in his team’s heavy 10-wicket loss to the Falcons in Blenheim.