Under 14-3 Healesville 5/123 defeated Montrose 4/118
Bowling first with eight players, Healesville bowled very tightly.
Despite only six fielders, Healesville restricted Montrose to 118, with Sammy Hyndman and Harry the picks of the bowlers.
Losing Ryder early didn’t help but Kael and Louis built a strong foundation with Kael finishing 10* and Louis falling for 11.
But it allowed Harry and Sammy Hyndman to attack in the middle overs taking the runs required down at a decent clip with Sammy finishing with 26* and Harry 15*.
Joshy Braden would then come in with 25 needed off six overs and hit a run a ball 14 to see the team over the line.
Under 14-7 Healesville 9/104 defeated Warranwood 10/86
The under 14-7s have started their season with a convincing win over Warranwood, after winning the toss and choosing to bat first Healesville posted a competitive total of 104 with a gutsy innings from captain Gus Morcombe 19, with great support from Arlo Turner 11, Reggie Morcombe 16.
With runs on the board, the opposition started positively but the tight bowling and energy in the field from the bloods was overwhelming and could not recover from captain Morcombe’s opening spell claiming four wickets.
Overall it was a great team effort from all involved showing plenty of determination from start to finish bowling out Warranwood for 86 runs.
Under 16-2 Healesville 6/64 defeated Wonga Park 10/61
Playing away at Wonga Park, Healesville bowled first and soon had Wonga Park on the back foot at 3/14 thanks to two wickets from Darcy English (2/5) and one to Sam Keath (1/19).
A good partnership steadied Wonga Park who reached 3/53 but then our spinners Henry Harding (4/11) and Raff Morcombe (3/14) took the last seven wickets for eight runs to bowl out Wonga Park for 61.
The low score chased proved harder than expected loosing six wickets and only getting to victory in with two overs to spare.
Darcy English 20*, Henry Harding 12* and Max Ferris 12 were our top run scorers.
1st XI Healesville 7/132 defeated by Heathwood 4/133
Losing the toss and being stuck in to bat Josh Handasyde departed early nicking off. Brother Tom and Nick Zinghini built a partnership, but at 1/47 at drinks you felt we were a bit behind the rate to set a competitive score.
Trying to up the ante, “Zinger” departed shortly for 19 followed by Tom Handasyde (30) which left us in a precarious position at 3/70.
Small partnerships followed but the only meaningful contribution coming from Eddies making 31* and Darcy English 11* got us up to 132.
It felt 40 runs short.
The third over saw Darcy English take the prized wicket of their premier batsmen and the team was up and about.
But unable to take the chances we didn’t see another wicket until Josh Handasyde dismissed the other opener with the score at 57.
Another partnership was built and catches were dropped.
Tarkyn bowled well and picked up two late wickets but overall the side will have to improve next week.
2nd XI Healesville 241 defeated Chirnside Park 98
Winning the toss, Healesville elected to bat. Healesville’s openers Denzel Parsons (7) and Dan Ebbels (55) got us off to a great start with some big hitting from Dan took us through to the ninth over when Denzel was unfortunately dismissed after some patient batting.
Dan then played only his second false shot to be dismissed in the 17th over, Chirnside must have felt relieved thinking the big hitting was over but then Grant Braden (79) come to the crease and Dan Furgerson (33) put on a quick score further dropping the heads of the chirnside players.
Aeden Senti (14) patiently batted, ticking over the run rate almost seeing out their innings with them finishing all out for 241.
Brothers, Jack Drummond (1/37 off 8) and Sam Drummond (4/19 off 8) on his debut game in the seconds opened the bowling and with Dan Ferguson (2/15 off 4) Tyler Braden (2/17 off 4.3) Chirnside were dismissed for 98.
3rd XI Healesville 8/160 defeated Croydon Ranges 116
Croydon won the toss and elected to bowl and it looked a good decision as Healesville slumped to 7/46 before the drinks break.
At the crease club stalwart Brenton Damrow and wily veteran Allan Pearce decided they had seen enough of the rot and set about changing the course of the game with a fantastic 96 run partnership.
Both batted superbly with Damrow reaching 48 and Pearce top scoring with 55* to drag Healesville to a competitive 8/160.
The sterling fightback had the Bloods pumped and they came out with plenty of enthusiasm in the second innings.
Regular wickets fell and a really committed effort in the field from the whole team saw Croydon dismissed for 116.
Prem Singh (4/28) and Damrow (4/29) did the bulk of the damage while young Ryder Hudson took two sharp catches behind the stumps to setup a great start to the season for the Bloods.
