Kyabram Fire Brigade’s Red team has provided a reminder that it is up for the challenge in the second round Thursday evening matches in the Community Bank Tongala Mathoura under-15 competition.
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After being bundled out for 76 in its opening round match with Echuca Green it responded against Kyabram Redbacks by posting a massive 208.
In week one the Fire Brigade White team stole all the limelight with a 41-over 263-run score and a 184-run win against Echuca South.
This week it was Red that scored 200-plus, on day one of its two day match with the Redbacks.
The runs came off 39.3 overs as the Redbacks responded late by taking the last four wickets for 35 runs.
Antonio De Pasquale was a star for Fire Brigade Red, setting an early tone when he hit two sixes in the fourth over and retired with 50 runs from 43 deliveries before the end of the 10th over.
Archer Backway (21 off 25) and Lara Hooper (22 off 39) maintained the momentum before Mitch Wilson smashed 27 from 25 deliveries (including five boundaries) and Ben Chapman held up an end (21 not out) as the final wickets fell around him.
Keplar Cleveland, Anthony Evans and Liam McInnes all took two wickets, McInnes allowing just 11 runs from his five overs.
The Redbacks will need to improve on their 44-run (all out in 22 overs) total against Echuca White in the first round in order to get close to the Fire Birgade Red tally.
·Fire Brigade White followed up round one’s big tally with 8-161 from 40 overs against Tongala at Brose Reserve on Thursday evening.
Timothy Mawley was the star, having missed out with only 12 in the opening round of the season, with an unbeaten 66 (from 59 deliveries) and seven boundaries (along with two sixes).
He opened the batting with Ethan Greiner (20 from 30 deliveries, with three boundaries), but only one other batsman made double figures (Nicholas Dodos, 10 from 24).
Fire Brigade was 4-98 in the 20th over, but lost five wickets for 31 runs before Mawley returned to the crease with Nicholas Barbagello (not out 6). They added another 32 runs to the total.
The final over of the innings had 13 runs scored, Mawley hitting a boundary and a six to finish the innings on a high.
Hugo Monnich Vo took 3-27 from his five overs and five other Tongala bowlers took one wicket, including River Townsend (1-12 from four overs) on the back of his 2-18 against Moama the week before.
Under-17
Set a monster total of 234 by Moama on day one of the two-day second round match, Kyabram Fire Brigade fell 68 runs shy in the chase.
It wasn’t all one-way traffic as Hamish Stewart batted with Braith Northausen (19), Lachlan Carver (16) and round one hero Hunter Fawcett (25) to set a strong tone.
Stewart struck four boundaries and a six in his 52 before retiring and leaving it up to Oliver Barnett to continue the momentum. Barnett, who struck three boundaries in his 12-run total last week, was similarly aggressive in round two.
His 23 included three boundaries and a six, but was the last double figure tally for the Fire Brigade team as it was 7-166 at the end of 40 overs.
Under-13
Kyabram Redbacks managed a 7-117 tally from their 32 overs against Kyabram Fire Brigade in day one of their two-day match at Cooma Recreation Reserve.
After losing two early wickets, thanks to Max Gould taking wickets in successive overs, Redbacks stars Heath Ogden (21 from 36 deliveries), Jack Halstead (not out 25 from 29) and Rhys Parsons (not out 20 from 30) combined to set the foundations of a triple-figure score.
Gould again broke the rhythm of the opposition when he took a third scalp and finished with 3-9 from his four overs.
Jonty Sefton and Xavier Dodos then added to the Redbacks’ woes when they took three wickets between them as the final four wickets of the innings fell for 37 runs.
· Tongala has a big run chase this week after it chased leather all night as Echuca Green registered 5-216 from 33 overs.
Four Echuca batsmen retired after facing 30 deliveries, opener Hamish Leersen striking 10 boundaries and two sixes in his not out 57.
Angus Greenman, despite the onslaught, managed to return figures of 2-11 from four overs. He also took a pair of BLU scalps in week one of the season.
Under-11
Kyabram Redbacks’ sister sides did battle at Girgarre Recreation Reserve on Friday night and it was the Black team that emerged victorious with an impressive 123 runs from its 20 overs.
The Black team sent its opposition in to bat after winning the toss in the Community Bank Tongala Mathoura competition which operates under slightly different rules to the other age divisions.
Kyabram Redbacks scored 83, with two players hitting boundaries (Rhys McKiernan and Noah Virivirilau). Lucas Mangan also made seven in the total.
Cooper Fisher was outstanding with the ball, taking three wickets, while Aiden Drew and Zavier Parsons both took two wickets for the Black team.
The stars for Black were Harry Roberts (not out 11 from 14 deliveries) and Drew, who hit one four and the only six of the match in his innings of 11.
Roberts and Cooper Fisher struck two boundaries in their innings’.
The under-11 competition is played on a 16m pitch and instead of batsmen being dismissed, when a wicket is claimed the opposition team receives four runs.
The boundaries are only 35m and the competiton will be five games before Christmas and five games after.
· Nate Chantler backed up his round one heroics for Tongala by claiming four wickets on Friday evening at Rochester Secondary College.
Chantler scored 12 not out and two two wickets in the loss to Kyabram Fire Brigade last week and this week finished with figures of 4-8 from three overs.
He and Tilly Forde were the only Tongala wicket-takers as Rochester scored 93 from its 20 overs.