LOCAL cricket supporters were treated to some tight finishes to complete round six of the Reeves Shield at the weekend.
Ferntree Gully paid dearly for losing three late wickets before stumps last week, falling seven runs short to Upwey Tecoma, who rebounded from their poor loss in the previous round to Johnson Park.
Dain Howe’s 77 proved to be the difference between the two sides, setting the Blues 175 to win and then brilliantly supported by reliable seamer Leigh Bianchi with 5/61 to grasp six valuable points.
Top side Eildon Park tasted their first defeat of the season at the hands of Johnson Park by six runs.
Chasing an improbable 260, the Panthers put up a terrific chase to be dismissed in the last over of the game for 255 thanks to a superb 89 from 21-year-old former Mulgrave junior Lee Waldron.
For the Sharks, Ben Stallworthy collected 4/50 to go with his half-century last week.
Monbulk hosted Knox Gardens in a one day game with the visitors successful by 29 runs courtesy of Shannon Small (44) and Jarrod Butcher (42) arguably the best in-form opening combination in the competition.
Blake Walter performed well for Monbulk, with 30 and 3/16 but it was the wise old Travis “Agent” Mulder with 3/22 from his eight overs who stole the show.
Knoxfield are playing with confidence and defended 187 against Footballers, who were restricted to 168 as Scott McKenzie took 4/53 elevating the Knights to their fourth win.
In the final game, Upper Gully Kings were too powerful with a dominant victory over bottom side Belgrave.
Daniel Beyer top scored for the Kings as Belgrave’s Luke Manion took four of the eight wickets to fall in a game the Magpies should quickly put behind them.
Highlights from Decoite Shield included a century to Manning from Saint Johns Tecoma who fell agonisingly short of an outright win over Knox City.
Saints bowler Kyle Grenda too nine wickets in the match.
South Belgrave just got home against the Lysterfield Beavers by 14 runs.
Auravale upset Rowville in the second last over of the day as 50-year-old Kevin McDonald took 4/31 in a return to the flannels.
Newly selected Victorian Country squad member Cameron Wheeler claimed 4/38 from 17 overs for Mountain Gate as the Gators easily accounted for The Basin in a season defining moment.
ROUND 6
Reeves Shield
Knoxfield 187 d Footballers 168 (Bogar 39, Carey 32, McKenzie 4/53, Scanlan 3/24).
Upper Gully 8/181 (Beyer 37, Colee 31, Manion 4/38) d Belgrave 96 (Carnell 34).
Upwey Tecoma 174 (Howe 77, Mannaert 3/26, Farrukh 3/31) d Ferntree Gully 168 (Salan 30, Bianchi 5/61).
Johnson Park 7/260 (Waldron 89, Morris 50, Stallworthy 4/50) d Eildon Park 255 (Devenish 58, Stallworthy 57, Devenish 52, Caton-Roberston 4/39).
Knox Gardens 9/169 (Butcher 44, Small 42, McInerney 40, Walter 3/16) d Monbulk 9/140 (Walter 30, Mulder 3/22).
Decoite Shield
Saint Johns Tecoma 8/267 (Manning 110, Parlby 38, Johnson 39, Virk 3/29) d Knox City 180 (Hoggett 64, Grenda 4/62).
South Belgrave 212 (Chivers 6/60, McElroy 4/41, McDermott 68, Hart 60) d Lysterfield 198 (Wells 39, Atkinson 4/30, Suckling 4/43).
Mountain Gate 208 (Buckland 104, Bowyer 5/55) d The Basin 166 (Vozzo 35, Wheeler 4/38, Bowden 3/42).
Auravale 7/143 (Purkiss 45) d Rowville 8/141 (Evans 48, Balfour 41, McDonald 4/31).
Division Three
Belgrave 166 (Wiseman 30, Murphy 43, Salter 5/60) d Upper Gully 151 (Bailey 7/49).
Upwey Tecoma 3/131 (McCarrick 67, Hurst 32) d Ferntree Gully 7/124.
Eildon Park 6/340 (Dietzel 87, Latty 68, Hicks 53, Pollard 34) d Johnson Park 65 (Cutts 5/22, Brown 4/32).
Knoxfield 9/284 (Kodi 59, Perry 63, Burley 34, Parroisen 41, Delivera 5/79) d Footballers 191 (Storey 39, Marriott 36, McKeown 32, Sunderesh 3/29, Osborne 3/43, Swan 3/61).
Knox Gardens 8/300 (Morrison 107) d Monbulk 9/288 (Clark 102, Simmonds 34, Mackin 51, Maher 38, Adams 6/95).
Division Four
Saint Johns Tecoma 149 (Harley 33, Williams 4/42) d Knox Boronia Churches 108 (Smith 4/34, Crichton 4/36).
The Basin 2/165 (Bunker 84, Betka 39) d Mountain Gate 162 (McComb 44, Clark 34, Wallace 4/23).
South Belgrave 9/188 (Fedley 45, Hart 35, Kinniburgh 5/32) versus Lysterfield 6/138 (Morris 47, Kinniburgh 41).
Rowville 194 (Marshall 3/45) d Auravale 109.
Division Five
Knox Gardens 4/204 (Buljabasic 103, Montague 35) d Belgrave 190 (Hoppner 43, Porter 31, Fleming 54, Greenway 5/25).
Ferntree Gully 234 (McKenna 106, Catalano 51, Cross 5/26) d Upwey Tecoma 112 (Cross 62, Glare 4/17, McPherson 3/35).
Eildon Park 7/541 (Szabo 37, Gaskin 119, Cutts 283, Dewer 3/130) d Johnson Park 108 (Ramboldo 42).
Knoxfield 7/170 (Stewart 62) d Footballers 87 (Johnson 5/24, Stewart 4/48).
Division Six
Mountain Gate 134 (Argus 50, Lawson 5/38) d South Belgrave 129 (O’Brien 56, Stangherlin 6/36).
The Basin 5/281 (Brown 100, Lee 94, Freeling 47) d Auravale 7/84.
Lysterfield 120 (McDuffie 4/18, Graffen 3/22) d Knox Boronia Churches 7/92 (D’Rosario 3/10).
Eildon Park 188 (Tibballs 48, Siwek 30, Woodward 30, Singh 4/37) d Knox City 123 (Romana 32, Sandhu 31, Mohammed 3/27, Zanial 3/6).
Division Seven
Lysterfield 9/284 (Hawkins 102, Cummings 75, Pollard 3/55) d The Basin 9/259 (Betka 49, Gill 40, Gibson 33, Hawkins 3/55).
Ferntree Gully 9/190 (Benham 82, Dennis 35) d Saint Johns Tecoma 125 (Woods 3/28, Parker 3/0) .
Eildon Park 8/271 d Knoxfield 9/253 (Gregg 39).
Rowville 7/172 (Howell 75) d Monbulk 7/51.
Upwey 6/245 (Waters 98, Hughes 36) d Knox Gardens 6/240 (Jongen 149, Waters 3/42).
B1
Wandin East 7/185 d Upper Gully 106.
Lysterfield 161 (Doughty 37, Femia 3/25, Tardini 3/37) d Eildon Park 160 (Davey 50, Rotheram 47).
Footballers 129 d The Basin 100.
Wanderers 8/242 (Gunathunga 33, Stephens 32, Fernando 54) d Johnson Park 8/215 (Bourke 51, Hales 50, Fernando 3/23).
B2
Belgrave 5/118 (Wade 35, Thiel 45, Hunt 4/8) d Lysterfield 114 (Feeney 3/12).
Upper Gully 7/117 (Zaloumis 51) d Monbulk 9/110 (Zaloumis 4/21).
Under 17
Upper Gully 5/122 (Begley 52) d Knoxfield 4/121 (Gerloff 50).
Lysterfield 2/109 (Downes 32) d Eildon Park Wildcats 7/68 (Hetrelezis 3/16).
Ferntree Gully 5/138 (Catalano 46, Turner 37) d Eildon Park Panthers 132 (Evans 51, March 40).
Knox Gardens 3/131 (Flintoff 52, Jankovskis 41) d South Belgrave/Belgrave 110.
Under 15
Knoxfield 4/90 (Smyth 26) d Johnson Park 8/85 (Robertson 28).
Eildon Park Panthers 5/135 (Young 25) d Upwey Tecoma 9/95 (Smith 29, Dunning 25, Gibson 4/11).
Upper Gully 3/131 (Grey 27, Bailey 26, Shineburg 28) d Eildon Park 7/82 (O’Sullivan 25).
Mazenod OC 6/110 (Mason 2/14, Warrin 2/9) d Eildon Park Wildcats 4/105 (Tardini 25).
Knox Gardens 7/79 d Ferntree Gully 8/60.
Lysterfield 9/87 d Rowville 8/54 (Walker 27).
Monbulk 6/101 (Gillard 25) d The Basin 5/100.
Lysterfield 1/127 (Taylor 25, Singh 21, Beer 3/10) d Knox Gardens 7/75.
Under 13
Johnson Park 7/152 (Barrington 31, Jacobs 3/28) d Bayswater 5/104 (Cameron 30).
Hawks/Knights 3/260 (Hill 30, Noonan 30) d Upwey/St Johns 54.
Eildon Park Panthers 2/193 (Luke 33, Gwynne 30, Singh 31, Edwards 31) d Ferntree Gully 7/101 (Cole 30, DeWet 31, Holland 3/15).
South Belgrave/Auravale 183 (Charman 49, Nicholls 43, Guirini 3/17, Roche 2/17, Booth 3/18) d Upper Gully 6/175 (Koenders 30, Griffiths 33, Cramer 2/22, Nicholls 2/17).
Under 12
Eildon Park Panthers 88 (Collins 25, Bullock 20, Harrison 3/7) d Ferntree Gully White 80 (Tibballs 3/7, Meyer 3/3, Lamb 18).
Lysterfield 7/184 (Arundell 30, Gibson 23, Taylor 22) d Upwey Tecoma 8/141 (Jansen 29, Sinclair 24, Dunning 21, Phipps 2/15, Shaw 2/17, Edwards 2/16).
Knox Gardens Black 3/149 (Dekel 30, Plumridge 31, Williamson 22) d Ferntree Gully Blue 74 (Stock 18, Dean 3/3).
Monbulk 108 d Upper Gully 9/85 (Dennison 3/5, Farmer 3/7).
