Bomaderry played the role of party poopers when they denied Oak Flats victory in their return to the South Coast first-grade competition in a two-run thriller at Geoff Shaw Oval.<\/p>\n
It was a round where games finished in nail-biters or massive victories with Shellharbour just scraping home by two wickets against North Nowra in another match that went right down to the wire. <\/p>\n
Premiers Lake Illawarra trounced Albion Park, Kiama did likewise to Ex-Servos while Bay and Basin Dolphins cruised to a five-wicket win over Kookas.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The Rats looked like they would be celebrating their return to the top grade in style on their home turf after they bowled Bomaderry out for 150. <\/p>\n
Bomaderry captain Kealen Blattner got his team\u2019s innings off to a blistering start from the top of the order with 44 from just 25 deliveries but opposing skipper Jack Bennett (4-22) and all-rounder Scott McAndrew (3-27) turned the tide.<\/p>\n
Oak Flats were on target at 4-119 but after McAndrew was stumped for 49, they collapsed to lose 6-29 to fall just three runs short.<\/p>\n
North Nowra skipper Nathan Thomas (73) and opener Nick McDonald (61) formed the backbone of their total of 241 at Bernie Regan Sports Ground <\/p>\n
Shellharbour were sailing along with Oran Pattison making 70 but after a middle-order collapse, they were looking shaky but skipper Alex Brown\u2019s unbeaten 108 got them home with just one more batter in the shed.<\/p>\n
Lake belted 313 against Albion Park with captain Kerrod White top-scoring on 87 and tailenders Jaiden Robinson (49) and Jarryd White (50) going on with the job despite 5-59 from Matthew Burns.<\/p>\n
The Park lost their first four wickets cheaply and were never in the hunt despite fighting knocks by Aiden Campion (30) and Will Schofield (28).<\/p>\n
At Oakleigh Park, the Kookas batted out the 50 overs to put 8-188 on the board thanks to Michael Perry\u2019s 59 and veteran opener Craig Bramble\u2019s paitent 41.<\/p>\n
Dolphins seamer Brock Balgowan led the way with 4-24 in attack and in reply, the visitors rarely looked troubled as they hauled in the runs with 14 overs to spare after Riley Haig\u2019s unbeaten 51 followed opener Daniel Hylton-Cummins\u2019 44.<\/p>\n
Kiama kicked off their season with a bang by thrashing Ex Servos 301-81 with Adam Ison (86) and David Coleman (60) the stars with the bat and Ison\u2019s brother, Brad, among the wickets with 5-35.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bomaderry played the role of party poopers when they denied Oak Flats victory in their return to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-214677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}