By JARROD POTTER
VWCA Premier Firsts – round 18
WOEFUL bowling from Brunswick Park (9/151) allowed Dandenong (192) to get away with a middling batting effort to take the points in the Victorian Women’s Cricket Association.
Brunswick Park top scored for Dandenong in effect as the visitors waywardly hurled a superhumanly bad 58 extras, including 36 wides.
Of the Lions’ batting effort, Chelsea Moscript (35) top-scored in a dour 70-ball effort, posting a 78-run opening stand with captain Erica Kershaw (30). Alana King (22), pushed up the order with Kelly Applebee and Sarah Elliott on Victorian duty, hit some clean fours down the ground and gained help from all-rounder Emma Gallagher (12). From there the run-rate needed increasing and Dandenong succumbed to the Brunswick Park bowling with a ball to spare in its innings.
Brunswick Park was anchored ably by opener Holly Hyder (55), but she couldn’t find another willing partner to help chase the total. The Lions’ pride started to roar into life with Lara Croft (3/21), Calista Moffat (2/11) and King (2/16) making a steady supply of Brunswick Park wickets. Hyder’s scalp was offered up to Croft with a straight-ball that blew apart the stumps, leaving the task too great for Brunswick Park. Gallagher (1/27) kept things tight with the new ball and Primrose Wohlers (1/28) snared a scalp in her second first XI appearance.
Dandenong hosts Melbourne on Saturday at Greaves Reserve.
Victorian Premier Cricket – round 17 (week one)
DANDENONG Panthers posted their best effort of the new year, storming to 297 on the back of a Mick Sweeney (100) ton.
Sweeney posted his first triple-figure score in Victorian Premier Cricket to smash aside Northcote on day one of their round 17 clash. Tom Donnell (46) and James Wilcock (43) also performed well with the blade.
