By Rob Boxell
Under 12’s vs Woori Yallock/Launching Place
Skipper for the evening Charlie Guerin won the bat flip and decided to bowl first on a great evening for cricket. This decision proved to be the right one with Tyson Oates striking twice in quick succession to give the eagles a great start. Woori/Launch rebuilt with a good partnership before wickets from Luke Dark and Daniel Lefel put the squeeze on the opposition before a run out thanks to some great fielding from Oates and Wil Joseph on the final ball of the innings kept Woori/Launch to 6/80. Junction’s innings got off to the worst possible start with Oates clean bowled second ball for a duck and Kye Van De Maat quickly followed. Jordy Thornton and Guerin came in and rebuilt the innings with both retiring before Dark came in who followed suit. Junction lost another wicket when Aidan Fogerty was bowled before more good batting from Al Mason, Wil Joseph and Daniel Lefel got Junction over the line finishing on 5/128. Four batters in the game scored career-high runs which is a testament to how they have trained and improved since the start of the season.
Yarra Junction 5/128 (J Thornton 18, A Mason 15*) def Woori/Launch 6/80 (T Oates 3/5)
Women’s vs Montrose
Junction travelled to Montrose on the hottest day of the season so far and skipper Carly Millar lost the toss and was sent into bat. Lisa Hilton and Millie Kuth opened the batting and Montrose bowled extremely tight until a couple of loose balls set Kuth on her way with a 4 and a 6 until she was trapped in front LBW for 12. Hilton soon followed for a duck. Millar and Rachel Pilton put on a promising partnership of 30 before Millar was run out for 6. Maddie Bennett and Taylor Stevens both followed in the same over before Bec Brown came in and upped the ante before being run out for 8. Pilton was the star, making 15* with Junction finishing on 6/79. Kuth and Alannah Bomford opened the bowling and bowled extremely tight keeping the runs down before both struck in quick succession to leave Montrose 3/14. Tara Wilson came into the attack and grabbed a wicket to restrict Montrose even further to 4/41 and the game was in the balance until Charli Stevens came in smashing a 17 ball 30* to see Montrose over the line. Hilton took a consolation wicket but ultimately, Montrose was too good on the day.
Yarra Junction 6/79 def by Montrose 5/83 (A Kuth 2/6)
3rd XI vs Healesville
Yarra Junction 10/36 def by Healesville 2/262 (K Vandermaat 1/18)
2nd XI vs North Ringwood
Yarra Junction 7/170 (B Hawkins 37, A Druitt 36) def North Ringwood 8/168 (L Van Der Vlugt 3/27, B Hawkins 3/51)
1st XI vs Seville
Yarra Junction 10/134 (T Nightingale 43, N Bark 33) def by Seville 10/154 (J Poynton 3/27, K Bomford 2/15)
