THE Taylor brothers, Dom and Cameron, played key roles in Strathdale-Maristians beating Strathfieldsaye in the Bendigo District Cricket Association’s first XI clash on Saturday.
Dom scored 30 runs and took 2-17, and Cameron hit the Suns’ top score of 54 on home turf at Bell Oval.
A highlight of the contest was the century by Strathfieldsaye’s Tim Wood.
After playing some great innings for the BDCA in its successful run at Melbourne Country Week, Wood rescued the Jets from a disastrous 5-39.
The Suns grassed a couple of chances before Wood had scored.
The Jets’ star then went on to strike seven sixes and six fours as he reached 100 off 85 deliveries.
Wood and Corey Devanny, nine, added 55 for the seventh wicket.
The only other Jets batsman to reach double figures was Andrew Stove on 12 as Strathfieldsaye reached 175.
After a big week in Melbourne, Ben DeAraugo bowled second change took 2-20 off six in his first spell and came back to bowl the 41st and 43rd overs in which he took Wood’s wicket on the way to figures of 3-28.
Braden Hocking, 2-7 off seven, and Ryan Haythorpe, 2-21 off nine, also bowled well for the Suns.
Although the Suns were scoring at the required rate, a score of 4-70 meant the Jets were right in the contest.Cam Taylor and Ben DeAraugo added 76 for the fifth wicket.
Tight bowling by spin bowler Liam Smith, 1-20 off nine overs, kept the heat on as the Suns reached 6-156 with four overs to go.
After conceding just 16 runs off five overs in his first spell, Daniel Francis was back in the attack.
Hocking pulled the first delivery over mid-wicket for six runs and another six off the final ball to put the Suns within reach.
DeAraugo scored the winning runs from the first ball of the 44th over.
Cam Taylor’s innings included a six and five fours, and Dom Taylor struck five boundaries.
Golden Square star Scott Johnson capped another man of the match performance in the Bulldogs’ win against Sandhurst at Atkins Street in North Bendigo.
Johnson took 3-29 off nine overs in Sandhurst’s innings of 157 and batted all the way through Square’s chase for victory.
Sandhurst’s innings was led by opening batsman Anthony West as he struck 66 before being caught by Phil Hetherington to be Johnson’s first wicket of the contest.
West’s dismissal ended a 61-run partnership with Travis Crouch, who hit a season best 37 runs for the Dragons.
Opening bowler James Pietromaco took 3-40 off nine overs, and Daniel Nalder and captain Grant Connelly took two wickets apiece.
The Bulldogs’ chase did not start well when Marcus McKern, 12, was caught by wicketkeeper Nick Scullie off a Scott Harper delivery.
Golden Square’s leading run-scorers of this summer, Johnson and Phil Hetherington then combined for an 87-run stand.
A great innings of 68 by Hetherington was over when caught by Crouch off the bowling of Matthew Pask.
The quick dismissals of Scott Trollope and Grant Connelly meant the Dragons had taken three wickets for just six runs.
Brad Perrow, 20, and Jason Johnson, 12 n.o., teamed with Scott Johnson in stands of 27 runs apiece to ensure the ladder leaders reached the target in the 43rd over. Pask, 2-30, and Harper, 2-39, were the leading wicket-takers.
Although their figures were 1-21 and 0-15, Tim Robertson and Quinton Bentley made sure the Dragons kept the heat on the Dogs.
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