After round 11 in the Ringwood and District senior cricket competition, Montrose 1st XI is sitting pretty taking a comfortable 7/258 against East Ringwood on Saturday 14 January.
Despite the heat and with East Ringwood yet to bat, Montrose is sitting in a good position after Kieran Perkins (49), Justin Perkins (50) and Matthew Whittaker (45) knocked half centuries, or close to, throughout the match.
J Perkins and Cooper Grigg were not out at the end of the day, with Grigg hitting 22 runs in the partnership.
Alfie Cooper also led the team to 38 runs before being caught and bowled.
Kilsyth 1st XI headed to Wonga Park, batting first after winning the toss. The team was all out for 258 after 69.5 overs, a great effort from the side in the heat.
Josh Turner and Jarrod McPhee were players of the day notching up 77 and 63 runs respectively.
Joshua Gregory also secured 40 runs before being caught and bowled.
Wonga Park started their run chase, ending the day 0/32.
For Kilsyth’s women’s 1st XI team, despite Officer taking the first innings win by 29 runs, Ashleigh Katoa was able to make club history hitting the first ever six for a Kilysth women’s player.
Although at home, Mooroolbark 1st XI had a rough start against Warrandyte going all out for 89.
The run chase from Warrandyte began well, seeing them score 0/76.
Over in the women’s competition however, Mooroolbark’s B Grade team has seen another excellent performance from Jess Adams who retired not out after making her third century in just four games.
Partnered with Sharnni Di Mauro who scored 73 not out, the pair helped secure the 1/226 win over Chirnside Park who were set the challenge of catching Mooroolbark.
Chirnside Park was 8/150 by the day’s end.
With the Mount Evelyn 1st XI travelling to Chirnside Park, players Troy Hancock (67) and Brad Jones (51no) were excellent in getting the team to a 9/264 finish after in the first innings, with Chirnside Park still to bat.
Success continued for Montrose, with the 2nd XI finishing the day with a score of 7/344 against Kilsyth 2nd XI in the Steve Pascoe Shield.
Leading the charge was Josh McCallum, who had an unbelievable day scoring 166 runs.
Mount Evelyn 2nd XI faced Chirnside Park, scoring 207 runs. Chirnside Park began the run chase, finishing the day 0/12.
At home, Montrose’s 3rd XI took on Mooroolbark 2nd XI declaring after scoring 9/343 in 73 overs.
Mooroolbark will come out to bat next week.
