Led again by opening bowler Jayke Fisher, Stanhope skittled Echuca South for just 37 in Saturday’s round of Goulburn Murray Cricket’s B grade clashes.
After a six-wicket haul the previous week, Fisher, with 4/20, helped cleaned up the South batting line-up in 30 overs.
Stanhope lost no wickets in securing a 10-wicket win.
With Darcy Backway showing the way with 46, Cooma posted 145 and then dismissed Moama for 129.
Kyabram Fire Brigade’s 8/169 was enough to get it a win over Rochester, restricted to 9/111 by some tight bowling from Jarrod Chapman and Steve George.
Elmore opener James Harney’s 70 off 75 balls with seven fours and a six was not enough to prevent it from a narrow loss to Rushworth, which was shown the way to victory by Jarryd Shepherd with a top score of 41, openers Tom Stevens (29) and Dan Newton (25) and Harley Taylor-Lloyd (24).
Regan Hanson and David Baldwin both claimed three wickets for Rushworth.
Tongala openers Jordan Souter (46) and Rory Knight (36) wiped off 74 of Tongala’s successful run chase of 102 against Colbinabbin.
Oscar McKeown starred with the ball for Tongala with 5/17 off eight overs.
In the other game LG accounted for BLU.
B GRADE
Justin Elliott hit 73 off 80 balls to set up a winning Fire Brigade score of 9/223 against Echuca, bowled out for 171.
Girgarre was skittled for 53 by Tongala, with Darcy Maloney (4/16) and Blake Jorgensen (3/8) triggering the collapse.
Opener Adam Neumann with an unbeaten 26 then guided Tongala to victory.
Jye Patten took 5/13 as Stanhope skittled Echuca South for 57.
Then openers Jacob Gillie (30) and Lee Rowlands (26) guided Stanhope to a 10-wicket win.
Rochester’s score of 274, highlighted by a century from opener T Griffiths, was too much for the Cooma batsmen, restricted to 4/108 off its 40 overs.
Northern United and Moama had the better of Nondies Cohuna and BLU respectively in the other games.
D GRADE
Openers Peter Raglus, with a vintage 49, and Brett Pateman (22) paved the way for Rushworth’s five-wicket win over BLU.
Fire Brigade came up three runs short in a low-scoring affair against Echuca, with Matt Schubach’s 22 the best effort for the losers.
Tongala’s batsmen scrambled 76 against Echuca, which lost just two wickets in securing the premiership points.