By Helena Adeloju
Lowly Keysborough did it tough against top ranked Springvale South and will be hoping to regain some confidence before playing out the second innings at the weekend.
Coomoora’s Mervan Fernando (4/65) was dangerous with the ball against Hallam-Kalora Park’s batsmen, claiming his season best figures.
@BT Sub Sport News:Parkfield v Doveton
Sent to the crease after losing the toss Doveton set about making the best of the Parkfield Reserve pitch. Doveton’s batsmen pulled off a respectable 256 total with just one duck between them.
Stand out performers Matthew Hutchinson (47) and Daniel Raines (46) came up just shy of their first half-centuries of the season, denied by an on the ball Parkfield side.
Doveton’s Nathan Wilson (35) and Shaun Tongue (34) also came up with the goods when it counted, leaving them with two men standing at the close of play.
Dale Harris (3/20) was Parkfield’s most economical of the bowlers, taking his first wicket of the season and adding two more scalps to his wicket haul to clean up the lower order in his 4 over spell.
Shane Doig (2/59) restricted the middle order damage and Mark Butters (2/82) took care of some of the danger men early on, leaving it to their batsmen to pick up where they left off.
@BT Sub Sport News:Coomoora v Hallam- Kalora Park
It wasn’t their choice to start the batting and it showed, with one of Hallam-Kalora Park’s openers caught out for a duck. Steve Chapman (78), Nicholas Hawking (52 not out) and fellow opener Michael Torcasio (50) fared better, but Coomoora had Hallam ducking with middle order anchorman Nicholas Cox falling cheaply.
With two wickets in hand at day’s end, third placed Hallam-Kalora Park set Coomoora an honest 249 runs to chase next weekend.
Coomoora started with the ball and Mervan Fernando (4/65) was dangerous taking out almost half of the Hallam-Kalora Park’s batsmen to claim his season best figures.
David Nutting (3/90) was back in form after a wicketless last round taking Fernando’s lead to lock in his own season’s best performance.
@BT Sub Sport News:Keysborough v Springvale South
It first placed Springvale South up against last placed Keysborough… and there were no surprises.
Keysborough was sent in to bat after losing the toss and it wasn’t long before they completely lost their nerve. Three ducks and 9 single figure scores later Keyborough’s innings was all over for just 47 runs.
Springvale’s opening batsmen had no mercy on Keysborough’s bowling line-up as they came out swinging, making 206 from 37 overs and declaring, with eight wickets in hand.
Jason Quirk (59 not out) helped himself to his second half-century, Lance Mac Dougall (56) made his presence felt on debut in Turf One and Rory Ingram (49) came up just short of his half-century, while the skipper Craig Slocombe (37 not out) put in his bit before leaving it up to Keysborough to try and rally for their second innings next weekend.
@BT Sub Sport News:Buckley Ridges v North Dandenong
Buckley Ridges won the toss and sent North Dandenong to the Oval Park crease, but they weren’t intimidated by the second placed Buckley Ridges bowling line-up, with the middle order confidently picking up the early slack with some big scoring.
The final total of 259 was a team effort with Scott Neeson (62), skipper Adrian Baltruschaitis (59), David Bell (33) and Carman Mapatuna (25) the leading run-getters.
Buckley Ridges’ Paul Rudd (3/14), Anthony Clarke-Bruce (3/51) and William Buttler (2/47) who took his first wicket of the season this round, were the standouts with the ball.
@BT Sub Sport News:Narre Warren v St Mary’s
Top five-placed Narre Warren had it all their way for their home game at Wilson Oval, winning the toss and electing to bat. There were no ducks in the Narre Warren huddle this week and the runs were flowing early with skipper-opening batsman Troy Cashman leading from the front.
234 runs was the final total with Luke Byron (72), Troy Cashman (61) and Paul Sharp (38 not out) combining to make the majority of the team’s runs.
St Mary’s bowlers Dwayne Scott (3/67), Shane Simpson (2/24) Ryan Christie (2/28) did well to limit Narre Warren’s run rate and hold them at an achievable score.
