The Entrance has taken out Central Coast Cricket’s men’s first grade grand final, with three big matches over the weekend March 18-19 making a thrilling end to the season.
The Entrance defeated Northern Power 273 runs as batters Conner Haddow, 93, Dylan Bennett, 45, Simon Keen, 39, and Daniel O’Brien, 26, outclassed their opponents.
For Northern Power, batting credits went to Jeremy O’Connell, 72, Brett Lenton, 48, and Ben Yeats, 47.
Northern Power’s bowlers did their best to dismiss the eventual winners with Chris Archer, Mitchell Howard and Hayden Murphy each taking three wickets.
Simon Keen bowled a sensational 5fa off 26.4 overs, including five maiden overs.
Broc Hardy managed two wickets, with Mitchell Starkey and Conner Haddow taking one apiece.
Conner Haddow was declared the Damian Wright Medallist, after batting 93 off 160 and taking one wicket during the match.
The hotly contested women’s first grade grand final saw Lisarow Ourimbah 5 for 118 defeat Terrigal Matcham 7 for 113.
Lisarow Ourimbah batted first with openers, Captain Amy Cunningham and Sophie Karczmarz, looking to set a solid foundation for the team.
Karczmarz was dismissed by Grace Dignam with the score at 21 in the 4th over.
Jess Holmes went in at 2 for 26 and then proceeded to score 28 runs off 24 balls, with the support of Aanya Siingh, 18 not out and Jessica de Tarczynski, 19.
Lisarow Ourimbah finished 5 for 118 of their 20 overs.
As Terrigal Matcham took to the bat, Lisarow Ourimbah’s Elissa Andrews took two quick wickets off Jade Day and Grace Dignam to have Terrigal Matcham 2 for 56 off 11 overs.
Emily Humphries and Ella Bridge put on 19 and 22 to have Terrigal Matcham within reach of victory.
Needing 16 off the last over, Terrigal Matcham were restricted to 10 runs and two wickets to fall six runs short of Victory.
Jess Holmes was Player of the Match, with 28 off 24, one catch and two run outs.
In the men’s second grade grand final, Narara Wyoming took the honours, defeating Kincumber Avoca.
Kincumber Avoca were bowled out in their first innings for 68, with Nathan Aulsebrook the stand out batter on 20 not out.
Mitch Coombs was the pick of the Narara Wyoming bowlers with 4 for 26 off 9.2 overs.
Narara Wyoming then put on 182 for their first innings, with Mitch Coombs once again putting in a stellar performance with 109.
Glen Giddings with 5 for 50 and Liam Roche with 4 for 30 were the pick of the Kincumber Avoca bowlers.
Kincumber Avoca looked to make up the deficit and set a solid lead to manage 187 in their second innings.
Liam Roche was the pick of the batters with 79 off 72 balls.
Narara Wyoming’s Trent Scott did the damage with the ball taking 4 for 33 off 8.3 overs.
Set a relatively small target for victory, Narara Wyoming finished 2 for 75, Jake Duncan, 39, and Andrew Moseley, 28 not out, leading the way.
Player of the Match was Mitch Coombs.
Source:
Media release, Mar 20
Central Coast Cricket