{"id":548939,"date":"2026-03-18T18:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548939\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:57:11","slug":"battapi-go-back-to-back-for-second-a-grade-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548939\/","title":{"rendered":"Battapi go back-to-back for second A Grade title"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Battapi have made it back to back A Grade premierships with a grand final victory over Cambridge Cats.<\/p>\n

Forbes District Cricket Association hosted A Grade and B Grade finals across the lake-front Grinsted and South Circle ovals on Saturday in a day filled with excitement. <\/p>\n

In A Grade, the Battapi overcame a pressured run chase with a tight bowling attack from the Cambridge Cats, while in the B Grade grand final, the Forbes Sport & Rec Bowlie Tigers were able to secure another title to their collection. <\/p>\n

A GRADE <\/p>\n

On Grinsted Oval, the Cambridge Cats won the toss and elected to start the day with the bat. <\/p>\n

Early on, the Cats were off to a strong start with Hunter Hawke taking on the Forbes Battapi opening attack managing to score a quick 28 runs before falling to Battapi spinner Elliott Parker, having Cambridge at 1\/38. <\/p>\n

With momentum taken over by some tight bowling from the Battapi, the home side was able to strike to keep the opposition to 4\/38. <\/p>\n

A cameo from middle order batsman Shaun Bateson (15), and a tail ending partnership of Greg Doyle (25 not out) and Graeme Bayliss (7 not out) lifted the Cambridge to a total score of 8\/102 from 30.0 overs. <\/p>\n

Great bowling was on display for the Battapi by Brenton Howarth 4\/19, Harry Leadbitter 2\/10 and Ollie Patterson 1\/8 off their six overs each. <\/p>\n

After Cambridge had set their total, Charlie Mitton (10) and Will Seyffer (21) come to the crease looking to score early. <\/p>\n

An important patient innings from Ky O\u2019Byrne (18) helped steering an innings where middle order wickets fell cheaply for the home team. <\/p>\n

Harry Leadbitter came to the crease for the Forbes Battapi at 4\/38, and much like O\u2019Byrne, Leadbitter played an a crucial innings to navigate a way to victory with a match sealing 40 not out, to chase down the Cambridge Cats total of 102 in the 29th over. <\/p>\n

Assisting Leadbitter at the end was Ollie Patterson, who scored the winning runs with a nice stroke shot for three, giving the Forbes Battapi a maiden back-to-back A grade titles. <\/p>\n

For the Cambridge Cats, a great bowling display by young gun Zac Guy with an impressive 3\/10 (6.0), and Shaun Bateson with neat figures of 1\/7 (6.0). A well deserved man of the match was awarded to Harry Leadbitter. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile the B Grade grand final was playing out on South Circle Oval, where Tigers Captain Jayme Sherritt had won the toss and elected to bat first against the Magpies. <\/p>\n

\"\"\"\"Tigers captain Jayme Sherritt accepts the B Grade trophy.<\/p>\n

The experienced Mark Stirling took to the middle and played an instrumental role with the willow. <\/p>\n

Stirling scoring an emphatic 64 to lead the Tigers to a total of 10\/145 runs off 28.0 overs. <\/p>\n

Contributions from the Tigers were also scored by Jacob Reid (12), Jye Skinner (13) and Warwick Edgerton (17). <\/p>\n

An impressive display of bowling for the Magpies outfit from Zeke Hartwig taking 6\/16 off 4.0 overs, backed up by Henry Hodges with figures of 3\/11 off 5.0 overs. <\/p>\n

An unfortunate day with the bat from the Magpies, saw the team all out for 17 runs in the second innings.<\/p>\n

Joe Morrison claiming 10 runs, while some strong bowling from Isaac Sly 5\/15 off 5.1 overs, and Mark Stirling 5\/2 off 5.0 overs. A well deserved man of the match rewarded to Mark Stirling. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Battapi have made it back to back A Grade premierships with a grand final victory over Cambridge…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-548939","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\/548939","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=548939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}