L. Hurum also scored a handy 33 before he was caught by C. Ronan.

Clubs bowlers took a bit of a mauling with T. Fletcher bowling eight overs and taking one for 42 runs, C. Hambrook bowled seven overs, one maiden and took two for 25 runs while J. Hennock bowled eight overs and took one for 31.

There were 13 sundries and the Bears won the match by five wickets with a score of 125.

Best and fairest players for the Clubs were Martin (3 points), C. Hambrook (2 points) and J. Hennock (1 point) and for the Bears J. Brewster (3 points), Hurcum (2 points) and McIllhatton (1 point).

Keith Cullen Oval was the venue for the match between the Coyotes and the Shamrocks. The coyotes won the toss and elected to bat.

G. Palmer led the Coyote assault with a firm opening knock of 136 before being caught by D. Gerrard from the bowling of G Cooper. Z. Maxwell chipped in with a handy 42 runs before being caught by C. Kuhm from the bowling of C. Cooper and S. Langford produced a handy 31 runs before being bowled by G. L’estrange. There were 6 sundries and the coyotes were all out for a very respectable 268 runs.

M. Jollife was the most successful bowler for the Shamrocks taking two wickets for 38 runs off four overs. P. Jollife bowled eight overs, one maiden and claimed two wickets for 56 runs and C. Cooper bowled eight overs, tow for 48.

L’estrange opened the batting for the Shamrocks and scored a handy 36 before being stumped by Ashton from the bowling of Maxwell. M. McAnespie remained not out on 54 but he was the only other Shamrock batsmen to reach good double figures as the side were finally all out for 172.

Maxwell and Langford were the best of the Coyotes bowlers, both bowled eight overs and both took four wickets, with Maxwell yielding 53 runs while only 25 were gained from Langford.

Best and fairest points for the Coyotes went to Palmer (3 points), Maxwell (2points) and Langford (1 point) and for the Shamrocks McAnespie (3 points), L’estrange (2 points) and Cooper (1 point).

JRL and the Services Young Ones played the fourth match of the day at Sawpit Gully with JRL winning the toss and electing to bat. They were all out for 44 runs. Their highest scoring batsman scored 15 runs and 19 sundries contributed to more than half the score.

J. Corbett was the best bowler for Services on the day, taking 5 wickets from five overs for the loss of 20 runs.

L. Cosgrove remained not out for 25 runs as Services Young Ones as they quickly ran down JRL’s total.

For JRL A. Maxwell bowled five overs, one maiden and took one for 15 while T. Mulquinney bowled one over and took one for six runs.

Best and fairest points went to W. Hurcum (3 points), A Maxwell (2 points) and N. Hart (1 point) for JRL and J. Corbett (3 points), L. Cosgrove (2 points) and R Scelly (1 point) for Services Young Ones.