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Girgarre’s nine wicket grand final win

Kangaroo king: Girgarre opener Matt McCready scored 32 from just 40 deliveries in the run chase to a nine wicket C-grade Goulburn Murray Cricket premiership against Echuca at Kyabram’s Northern Oval on Saturday,

GMC C-GRADE GRAND FINAL

ECHUCA v GIRGARRE

(at Northern Oval, Kyabram)

Girgarre won toss and bowled.

ECHUCA

HJ Hegarty c A Scoble b S Doolan..............7

S McCallum c A Hughes b S Doolan...........3

D Hegarty c RJ Febey b A Anderson...........0

DH Patel c A Medhurst b J Sherritt.............8

E Carlile c MW Cowley b A Hughes............22

B Henson run out (A Hughes/A Scoble)......3

J Pedersen lbw b M McCready.....................4

R Nathan c RJ Febey b S Doolan..................6

D Laffy not out...............................................0

Sundries (1nb, 3w, 4b 3lb)...........................11

TOTAL.....................................................73

Bowling: Shaun Doolan 5-3-2-2, A Anderson 5-0-23-1, M McCready 6-1-14-1, J Sherritt 5.2-1-7-1, A Hughes 5-1-7-1, Simon Doolan 5-1-13-1. Overs: 31.2

GIRGARRE

L Kempinski c Laffy b Hegarty.....................12

M McCready not out.....................................32

M Cowley not out..........................................26

Sundries (2nb, 1w, 1lb)...................................4

ONE wkt for...............................................74

Bowling: H Danzinger 4-0-11-0, Z Hegarty 5-1-25-1, D Laffy 2-0-8-0, J Pedersen 1.5-0-25-0, H Hegarty 1-0-6-0. Overs: 12.5.

Girgarre won by nine wickets

Title tilt: Lee Kempinski scored 2341 runs at 30.12 with Girgarre this season, but was the only wicket to fall in the grand final run chase last weekend.
Goulburn Murray Cricket champions: Echuca claimed the 2022-23 GMC A-grade title and in doing so became back-to-back winners Photo by Josh Huntly
D-grade title: Bamawm Lockington United won its grand final against Tongala. Photo by Steve Huntley
B-grade champions: Bamawm Lockington United with the spoils of victory.