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WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS

 

GRAND FINALS
14,15 & 21st March, 2009

THE MISSEN STATEMENT
Mark Missen's review of the Grand Finals

EAST FEAST AGAIN

East Sandringham completed their seventh premiership in the past eight seasons when they blasted past West Bentleigh in the Longmuir Shield Grand Final at Hurlingham Park on Saturday.
West Bentleigh resumed at 3/61 after 39 overs were completed last Sunday and under a controversial ruling both teams were allocated 55 overs to bat.
West began behind the eight ball after such slow going last week and needed to make quick progress in order to set East a tough target but such was the discipline of the bowling they made little headway and the early removal of two of West’s most dashing players in Damien Holmes and Chris Fidler early made rapid progress difficult and although Danny Frew (39) remained steadfast his runs flowed like treacle as he laboured for 50 overs before being dismissed. Nonetheless it was a gutsy display by the veteran but with none of West’s other bats firing the scoring remained tardy.
Anthony Reid (26*) supplied a late flurry and left onlookers wondering why his hard hitting approach was not used earlier and West had to settle for 8/116 with Luke Manders outstanding with the ball as he added a further three wickets tote two he had collected last week to finish with 5/44 in a marathon display. Luke Dallas (2/38) provided fine support at the other end and left their batsmen with a relatively simple task.
Mark “Cracker” Devereaux lived right up to his nickname and cracked a breezy unbeaten 82 to take the man of the match award. Devereaux played every shot in his repertoire to totally dominate the West attack which had little chance of defending the paltry tally their bats had provided. Glen Phelan (21) and Anton Duddy (15*) wer both happy to play second fiddle as the Gold Caps romped home.
Woolnough Shield looked like providing a much tighter contest after Kingston Heath resumed their innings at 6/171 and were allocated a further six overs in which to make hay. Daniel Schwarze resumed on 49 and took his total to 69 before the innings closed whilst Matt Reid (18) and captain Leroy De Alwis (25* off just 13 balls) blasted off at the other end and The Heath managed 7/220.
Moorabbin West lost a couple of early wickets but Steve Worker (48) and Darren McConville (28) got the score to 80 at the tea break and the game was evenly poised but both were run out in mix ups shortly after the resumption and the Westers innings fell away under the pressure of some brilliant Kingston Heath fielding and the innings was wrapped up at 140. Callum Rayner (3/35) took the figures but James Bourke was ultra impressive in a long tight spell of leg spin grabbing two wickets but rarely bowling a bad ball.
Bentleigh Uniting restricted Washington Park to 117 in C Grade and their powerful batting cruised past with ease.

In D Grade Kingston Heath made it a great day all round with a 9 wicket victory over Bentleigh Uniting Nathan Sheehan making 43 not out and Williams the Wrecker taking 4/32.

In other grades Bentleigh ANA were too strong for Omega in E Grade while Kingston health made it 3 from 3 in F grade with young gun Josh Manning making an unbeaten 66.

Moorabbin West won a thriller in G grade with Alex Jones doing the damage taking 4/12. Carnegie Sth were comfortable winners in H Grade thanks mainly to Alby Mihulkas performance of 5/51, whilst Bentleigh Uniting took the honours in I grade with a 48 run win over Aspendale Edithvale

 

ADDITIONAL REPORTS

In H grade, the undefeated Carnegie South brought home the club's only flag this year with a hard fought win over Omega. In the rain last week, Omega crawled to 154, with Marty Lyons top-scoring with 41 and John McAlroy 30. Some great catching by South's Ray Halsell saw the end of Omega's strong batting line-up relatively cheaply. A superb bowling effort by South, lead by Andy Muhulka (19-3-6-51) saw Omega restricted to their lowest total in a while, in very difficult conditions. Faced with 45 minutes to bat last Sunday evening, South threw in Lance Crittenden, elevated from number 8 to open the batting. As the club trip away was scheduled for day 3 the following weekend, Lance was going to be faced with a tough choice if he didn't bat on the 2nd day. Fortunately a rapid 19 and a dismissal from a typically great Marty Lyons stumping enabled the trip away to proceed with all attendees. On day 3, Carnegie South battled hard against some fine swing bowling from Mick Krull and John McAlroy with Phil Taranto claiming the wickets (3-24). But South's Peter Kemp, with an opening effort of 44 followed by youngsters Will Nash (28 no) and Riley Houghton (27) enabled South to chase down the total for the loss of only five wickets. Andy Mihulka's fine 6 wicket haul saw him named man of the match.



               SENIORS                          
                        

LONGMUIR SHIELD

East Sandringham B C               1 / 119  Mark Devereaux 82*                                                          def
West Bentleigh                             8 / 116  Dan Frew 37, Luke Manders 5/44, Luke Dallas 2/48

 WOOLNOUGH SHIELD

Kingston Heath                          8 / 220    D. Schwarze  69*, M. Morel  38            def 
Moorabbin West                             142    S. Worker 48, C. Rayner 3/35
            
 C GRADE 

Bentleigh Uniting                         4 / 141  Alex Zaia 55*             def       
Washington Park                              140  Tim Doherty  5/50  

D GRADE

Bentleigh Uniting                               90  A. Williams 4/32   lost
Kingston Heath                          1 / 103   N. Sheehan 43*                              

E GRADE

Bentleigh ANA       7 / 113  P. Bishop 37, J. Wilson 2/18, Bourne 2/19, M. McCartney 2/37      def                                                    
Omega                         109  Matt MCCartney 31, J. Coyne 6/27

F GRADE                 

Kingston Heath      7 / 156  J. Manning (Jnr) 66*, D. Speed 5/48                def
Carnegie South             88  J. Fisher 31, H. MacLean 4/17, T. Reid 3/3

G GRADE        

Moorabbin West               8 / 125   Beazley 3/31              def
East Bentleigh Central          124   Alex Jones 4/12

H GRADE                     

Carnegie South                  5 / 159    Peter Kemp 44, Phil Taranto 3/24                             def
Omega
                                     154    M. Lyons 41, J. McIlroy 30, A. Mihulka 5/51         

I GRADE                   

Bentleigh Uniting                       127   John Halliday 42, Steve Croiuch 35, Nick Halliday 24, M. Guinea 5/57   def
Aspendale Edithvale RSL          79   Ben Humphrey 5/19, Shekar 3/29
                   
1 Day Grade               

Hampton Central                      140   N. McMillan  60*, Rombotis 3/22, Booker 3/23       lost         
Omega                                 5 / 142   J. Cloke 50*, J. Rombotis 28, G. Magaw 24, N. Murray-White 3/33

 

Junior

 

Twilight  - Grand Finals  -    6 & 13th March, 2009

Under 16A

Bentleigh Uniting              4/104  M. Allenby 23*, B. Still 23                                                                     def
Omega                                    99  B. Wilson 29, S. Zaia 4/20, M. Backman 3/21, J. Drummond 2/6

Under 16B

Dingley                                 9/169  D. Andrews 59*, S. Berger 44, Adam Verberne 6/19, J. Marshall 2/25     def       
South Caulfield/Ormond          61  H. Thompson 3/9, D. Tanner 2/5, D. Andrews 2/11
Under 16C

Hampton                            7/169  Hamish Scully 50, T. Witherow 25, Adam Hutton 22, C. Floca 20    def
East Sand. B C                   9/91  Ben Rawling 20, A. Johns 4/21

Under 14A

Beaumaris                         8/168   M. Williams 33, S. Chamberlain 31, D. Johns 29, N. Vorach 25, J. Hall 2/21     def  
Elsternwick                            101  I. Parta 31, S. Chamberlain 2/18

Under 14B

Carnegie South                   9 / 138  K. Ponniah  31                                                                                   lost
Brighton District                  7 / 147  J. Mallard 35, R. Slade 27,. H. Whitelege 20, T. Andrews 2/21               

Under 14C

Le Page Park                      9/108  H. Jones 24, L. Hay 3/7                                                                  def   
Hampton Central                    103  D. Compton 25, R. Keating 4/12, C. Ross 2/17, N. Buck 2/20

Under 14D

Bentleigh Uniting                    143  A. Zanca 50*, J. Capp 3/3, C. Willoughby 2/22                             lost
West Bentleigh                    5/179  J. Capp 50*, K. Toshack 32, R. O'Brien 29*, N. Jones 2/20

 

Saturday- Grand Finals  -   14 & 15th March, 2009

Under 16A

Dingley                  9 /  114   Jordan Wood 33, Josh Allen 25, Riley Florence 24, Andrew Birt 3/11, Yanni Pasialis 3/23      def
Kingston Heath     8 / 113    Josh Manning 27*, Jordan Wood 3/11, Josh Allen 2/13, C. McCready 2/33

Under 14A

Omega                   4 / 178  M. Caia 508, S. Lay 50*    def      
Bentleigh Uniting          73  K. Harris 3/5 

Under 14B
 Kingston Heath          157  C. Ryan 35, C. Birt 32, K. McDonagh 25, L. Mitchell 20, T. Ryan 3/11, l. Feather 3/26,
                                               J. Schenk 2/20                                            lost
Omega                    9 /185   H. Russo 66*, M. Lee 21, C. Birt 5/26                 

Under 12A

Hampton United    5 / 199  M. Murray 30*, W. Pucovsky 31*, T. Wilson 23*, J. Aikins 20, Smith 3/19    def
McKinnon                    113  D. Daj Gupta 31*, W. Agar 28, D. Kenelley 2/7 

Under 12B

Le Page Park         8 / 103  R. Pal 21                                                                                                          lost
Bentleigh Uniting    3 / 104  B. Mangal 30*, M. Millwood 25*, G. Seneveratne 2, L. Globan 2/5

Under 12C West

Brighton                          116   E. Vile 2/9, M. Evans 2/14, A. Agawal 2/19                                                       lost
Cluden                            118   Matthew Evans 38*, K. Marshall 21, W. Paul 4/11, H. Kimpton-Moss 2/26                   

Under 12C East


Mackie                            6 / 166  Dean Krelle 30*, Brayden Woodbridge 30*, Elliott Bradley 30*, Bernard O'Meara 24*      def
Carnegie South                    96  Brayden Woodbridge 2/8, Dean Krelle 2/12

Under 12D West

Brighton Dist.                147  L. Simmons 30*, J. Noske 20, J. Punshon 4/17, E. Gooden 2/19      lost
Hampton                  8 / 149  R. Gozzard 27, O. Pearson 3/21

Under 12D East

Moorabbin            3 / 126                                                                       def  
Ormond                 7/ 125  A. Henry 20*, S. Van Der Soun 2/12