CRICKET<\/p>\n
CLV<\/p>\n
By LIAM DURKIN<\/p>\n
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BOWLERS generally had more success than batsmen in Cricket Latrobe Valley at the weekend.<\/p>\n
Across the two first grade divisions, there was five five wicket hauls taken on Day 1 of Round 8.<\/p>\n
This was likely attributed to rust from most players, who hadn\u2019t had a hit for the best part of a month due to poor weather.<\/p>\n
MORWELL should wrap up first innings points against Centrals.<\/p>\n
The Tigers are 0\/100 chasing 174 at Keegan Street.<\/p>\n
Blair Clymo has found form, and is unbeaten on 54 for the home side, partnering with Kris Fortuin on 39, in what could technically be classed as his 299.5th game.<\/p>\n
The Lions\u2019 innings was plagued by starts, as five players reached double figures.<\/p>\n
Only Tyron Gamage (53 not out), who was dismissed off a no ball, and Jaxon Murdoch (32) were able to make an impression.<\/p>\n
Morwell bowled well as a unit, with five of six bowlers taking a wicket.<\/p>\n
Todd Dixon snared 3\/9 and off-spinner Ross Whelpdale 3\/41 on return to the club.<\/p>\n
IMPERIALS hold all the aces against Moe.<\/p>\n
The boys from Catterick Crescent have already won on first innings, and lead by 36 runs with three wickets in hand.<\/p>\n
Imperials have the option of going for quick runs to set up an outright, or batting long enough to make the Lions shake hands at arvo tea.<\/p>\n
Given Todd Mann is at the crease, with Aaron Johnstone to come, it appears a safe bet Imperials will hit out.<\/p>\n
All this said, outrights are hard to achieve, and Moe could well shut up shop in its second dig if it doesn\u2019t feel a reverse outright is worth risking.<\/p>\n
Imperials off-spinner Charlie Pilling did the damage early in the day, taking 5\/21 off eight overs.<\/p>\n
Moe was cruising at 2\/90 before collapsing.<\/p>\n
EX STUDENTS batted all day.<\/p>\n
The Sharks put up 7\/261 against Glengarry, headlined by Matt Dyke scoring 118 in a marathon 252-ball stay at the crease.<\/p>\n
The opener hit 13 fours at Terry Hunter Oval, but was mainly featured in application and deft touches to get off strike.<\/p>\n
Ex Students can bat into Day 2 if they wish, although a score of 260 should be enough.<\/p>\n
A few Glengarry players might have a light week on the track, especially Al Jenkin, who sent down 28 overs for 2\/93.<\/p>\n
TOONGABBIE might be staring down the relegation barrel already.<\/p>\n
The Rams are 1\/1 chasing 259 against Churchill at Roger Reis Oval.<\/p>\n
Cobras skipper Ryan Ayres fell just eight runs short of a ton batting at four, backing up the good work of opener Brae Kelly, who made 68.<\/p>\n
Ric Velardi featured in the side for the first time this season, and played his role with 29 off 94 balls.<\/p>\n
Gayashan Munasinghe bent his back for 20 overs, and was rewarded with a five wicket haul.<\/p>\n
TRARALGON WEST got past 200 against Latrobe in A Grade.<\/p>\n
The Eagles were asked to have a hit at Jack Canavan, and responded through Hayden Kimpton (65), Alfie Peck (57) and Chris Glynn (42).<\/p>\n
Of concern however was the number of bowled dismissals \u2013 six all up.<\/p>\n
Rob Webber and Liam Duncan were the chief destroyers for Latrobe, taking eight poles between them.<\/p>\n
The Sharks are 0\/23 in reply, after negotiating 18 overs before stumps.<\/p>\n
ROVERS declared at 8\/254.<\/p>\n
Travelling to Stoddard Oval, the team from Duncan Cameron made the most of the opportunity to bat first on Gormandale\u2019s deck.<\/p>\n
Openers Simon Duff and Tyler Pearce both registered half-centuries, paving the way for Darion Duncan to come in and make a run-a-ball 64 not out.<\/p>\n
Yohan Soyza was the pick of the Tigers bowlers, saluting with 5\/50 off 25 overs.<\/p>\n
DOES this say more about Raiders or Mirboo North?<\/p>\n
Raiders has already won on first innings, and is primed to roll the Tigers outright.<\/p>\n
The team from Yinnar made 178 batting first at home, before left arm quick Keenan Hughes ran through the Mirboo North line-up, to see the visitors skittled for 40.<\/p>\n
Hughes took 7\/26, following the lead of his skipper, Liam Maynard, who made 63 earlier in the piece.<\/p>\n
Raiders enforced the follow on, and Mirboo North will resume at 0\/10, still 128 runs shy of even making Raiders bat again.<\/p>\n
IF Willow Grove wins this, it will surely be one of the greatest wins in the club\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
The small town club has a fighting chance to beat the well-resourced CATS on their home turf.<\/p>\n
CATS are 6\/82 chasing 134.<\/p>\n
Willow Grove captain Ben Edebohls has so far taken 3\/16 and made 43 with the bat, and could hold the key to what happens this Saturday.<\/p>\n
Equally however, CATS still have Cal Stewart and Tinashe Panyangara to bat.<\/p>\n
If ever there was a reason to show why CATS recruit players of this calibre, now is surely the time.<\/p>\n
Stewart has three wickets in the game, as does Dane Fawcett, who can certainly bat.<\/p>\n
Josh Keyhoe gave CATS a good look at victory opening the batting, scoring 51.<\/p>\n
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T20s<\/p>\n
THE last pool games of the Cricket Latrobe Valley Twenty20 competition have been completed.<\/p>\n
Round 1 matches were rescheduled to Tuesday, December 9 after poor weather forced an abandonment of the original schedule.<\/p>\n
The competition then moved into the quarter finals, played last night (Tuesday, December 16) after the Express went to press.<\/p>\n
MOE went undefeated during its qualifying games in Pool A.<\/p>\n
The Lions beat Morwell by four wickets and with seven balls to spare chasing 113 at Keegan Street.<\/p>\n
Chris Robinson made a return to cricket, scoring 26 off 28 balls opening up for the visitors.
Ross Whelpdale (2\/18) and Todd Dixon (2\/25) were the multiple wicket-takers for the Tigers.<\/p>\n
Leading lights with the ball for Moe were Ben Zomer (3\/18) and Callum Grant (2\/13).
Raiders easily accounted for Mirboo North.<\/p>\n
The team from Yinnar posted 3\/129 at home, before bowling the Tigers out for 60.<\/p>\n
Harri McColl was given a licence at the top, and dashed to 53 off 56 balls.<\/p>\n
Liam Maynard made a busy 39 not out off 32 balls.<\/p>\n
McColl completed a productive Tuesday night, taking 3\/17, while Keenan Hughes returned somewhat bewildering figures for a T20, taking 4\/3 off four overs with two maidens.<\/p>\n
Despite the margin of victory, it was not enough to propel Raiders into the quarter finals.<\/p>\n
TRARALGON WEST accounted for Jeeralang-Boolarra to qualify in Pool B.<\/p>\n
The Eagles chased the 96 needed on the Boolarra hard stuff.<\/p>\n
Panthers veteran Glen Smith was his side\u2019s top-scorer, noodling 35 off 44 balls.<\/p>\n
Wickets were shared among the Traralgon West trundlers. Ben Fleming (2\/13), Hayden Kimpton (2\/17) and Jack Cooke (2\/24) all chimed in.<\/p>\n
Alfie Peck (43) and Josh Monacella (30) then did the work with the bat.<\/p>\n
Young gun Cooper Stanton took 2\/18.<\/p>\n
No scores were published for the Toongabbie\/Churchill game, which saw the Rams win with a handful of balls to spare.<\/p>\n
EX STUDENTS defeated Glengarry in Pool C.<\/p>\n
Matt Dyke led the way with 60 off 49 balls opening the batting at Terry Hunter Reserve, in a total of 132.<\/p>\n
The Magpies used six bowlers, five of whom took wickets. Andrew Winter finished with 2\/26.<\/p>\n
Paul Henry again showed he is an A Grader playing B Grade on Saturdays, making 49 off 47 balls flaying the new rock to all corners of the oval.<\/p>\n
Glengarry however fell short of the target, finishing at 6\/118 after their 20 overs.<\/p>\n
Michael Bentley took 2\/24 for the winners.<\/p>\n
Willow Grove had an easy win over Gormandale.<\/p>\n
The Tigers were reduced to 5\/14, and from there, scrapped to 68.<\/p>\n
Rob Fiddelaers (3\/15) and Ben Edebohls (2\/6) ran riot with the new ball for the Wolves, before Nathan Wheildon (2\/8) came into play later in the innings.<\/p>\n
Luke Payton then hit five sixes at Stoddart Oval, making his half-century as the game wrapped up just after 10 overs.<\/p>\n
Matt Dykes had some joy for Gormandale, taking 2\/14.<\/p>\n
ROVERS defeated Imperials by six runs in Pool D.<\/p>\n
Batting first at Duncan Cameron, the home side closed at 6\/126.<\/p>\n
Skipper Dougal Williams made an unbeaten 58 off 48 balls.<\/p>\n
As is the nature of T20 cricket, the match could have easily gone either way, with Imperials finishing at 8\/120.<\/p>\n
Leighton Shuttleworth batted the entire innings, making 65 not out off 54 balls.<\/p>\n
Rovers threw the ball around to eight players. Liam Little nabbed 2\/24.<\/p>\n
Centrals defeated Latrobe in a low-scorer.<\/p>\n
The Sharks batted first at Apex, but managed just 69.<\/p>\n
Ed Hopper scored 26 not out, yet struggled to rotate the strike, chewing up 45 balls in the process.<\/p>\n
The Lions got the points inside 15 overs.<\/p>\n
Tye Hourigan played smartly, getting to 40 not out off 35 balls.<\/p>\n
Express quick Rhys Noble provided an early hope for the visitors, taking 2\/7.<\/p>\n
Round 3 of Pool D was completed last Thursday (December 11).<\/p>\n
Rovers defeated Centrals in a one-run thriller at Apex.<\/p>\n
Defending 126, the visitors took a wicket off the final ball, with Alexander Rathbone executing under the most extreme pressure.<\/p>\n
Ewan Williams had earlier made 38 against the new ball, as wickets were shared among the Lion\u2019s line-up. Daniel Doble delivered a maiden in figures of 2\/19.<\/p>\n
Lachie Speairs registered a half-century up top, as he and Tye Hourigan (35 off 23) did all they could to see Centrals to victory.<\/p>\n
Rathbone however enjoyed his moment of glory, finishing a two-over stint with 2\/8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CRICKET CLV By LIAM DURKIN \u00a0 BOWLERS generally had more success than batsmen in Cricket Latrobe Valley at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-350892","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350892","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=350892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}