SOME good scoring lit up the Seymour District Cricket Association throughout the weekend.
Tallarook continued its dominance of the competition by putting Avenel to the sword, scoring a 142-run victory.
Lachlan Watts was the hero, scoring the competition’s second century of the season, with his 123 runs coming off just 103 balls, which included 11 fours and two sixes.
Watts’ heroics allowed Tallarook to recover from 5/74 to set 7/204, and it was Kalon Winnell who did the rest, taking 6/19 off 9.5 overs to overwhelm Avenel’s batting lineup. Along with Tarkyn Dundon’s 3/5 off six overs, Avenel was all out for 62.
Seymour took a tense game against Yea, doing just enough to defend 149.
After a slow start, Luke Woolan’s 48 and Jack Hesse’s 44 allowed Seymour to set something it could defend, eventually making 8/149 off its 45 overs.
In response, Yea started slowly, but good middle-order hitting from Andrew Butterworth allowed the Tigers to get back into the game.
However, Seymour was able to bowl well in the clutch, especially with Lachlan Drummond taking 3/16 off nine overs, holding Yea to 7/144 and, as a result, has scored a break over the competition in third.
Pyalong continue to emerge as one of the main contenders in the competition, but had to survive a thriller against Puckapunyal, winning by just one run.
Pyalong batted first, and thanks to Mitchell Ryan’s 39 and Jamie Pryor’s 50, managed to make 5/183 off its 45 overs.
Danny Fountain led the way with the ball for Pucka with 2/31 off nine overs.
Pucka, in response, looked to be well on the way to scoring victory, especially with Nicholas Bennetts scoring at will in making 59 runs.
However, Anthony Pratt and Alexander Ryan took three wickets apiece to help Pyalong hold Pucka when it needed to right at the end and stole victory by one run in a tense finish, with Pucka scoring 9/182.
In the B grade competition, Tallarook needed all of its reserves to eventually take victory over Avenel by two wickets in a low-scoring game.
Russell Downie took three wickets, and Finn Melville and Braeden Dundon two apiece in rolling Avenel for 79, but Tallarook had great difficulty getting to the target.
Kieran Minter’s 20 and Brendan O’Donnell’s 17 allowed Tallarook to hang on, scoring 8/81 to win.
Brett Gordon’s 55 allowed Seymour to make an impressive 8/186, the highest score of the round, before Janak Abeywardane and Damian Murphy took three wickets apiece to hold Yea to 9/98.
Puckapunyal and Pyalong had a game equally as its A grade counterparts.
Batting first, Pyalong looked to have a good footing with Matthew Wilkins scoring 47 and Daniel Sowden 28, but collapsed from 4/106 to be all out for 118.
Jacob Nipperess did the damage with 4/25.
In response, Pucka did just enough, with Nipperess scoring 35 and Vaughan Agnew adding 26, but needed all its reserves to get the job done, scoring 8/121.
Jaxon Hill took four wickets for Pyalong in a losing effort.
