Under 12-9 Healesville 3/102 defeated by Yarra Junction 6/109 – by Adam Keath
Valiant loss in the top-of-the-table match between Yarra Junction and Healesville. Yarra junction started well protecting their wickets for the first 7 overs, some good bowling and catching in the middle of the innings slowed the scoring with Gus Morcombe 2/3 and Declan Kruize 2/9 the pick, Tom Quaggin 1/9 and Jackson Lehman 1/9 were the other wicket takers. Yarra Junction at the end of their 23 overs 6/109. Healesville’s batting started off strong again and wickets were hard to come by but with 12 runs needed to win off the last over it was just a little too much, Healesville falling short by 7 and finishing 3/102. Best with the bat Louis Keath 19, Fin Coleman 11 and Ryder Hudson 10.
Under 12-4 Healesville 2/159 defeated Chirnside Park 69 – by Matt Harding
Super effort in the field to save a stack of runs from the ever-reliable Monty. Great caught and bowled by Henry Harding (2/7) even after a collision with the batter, Tully Ellis chimed in with two wickets (2/3) in a great Captain’s performance. Taylor Caldicott knocked the stumps down to continue his great form of late with the ball (2/12). The Caldicott brother and sister combination opened the batting with Talyor and Summer both making 12. Ben Hunter (7*) was looking great defensively with the bat and got a great run out looking at just one stump earlier in the match. Another great knock from Raff Morcombe (60*) and Henry Harding (22*). Endo Gotch (9*) played his best game with the bat and kept well also. The call of the day when running between wickets was Archie Hempel (9*), well done for great confident calls.
Under 14 Healesville 92 defeated Mt Evelyn 5/83 – by Liam English
Good batting performance from Darcy English making 29 and Raff Morcombe making 22 to set a defendable total. Good effort from Raff Morcombe getting 2/5 and Henry Harding 1/7 to keep Mt Evelyn to 83 runs.
Under 16 Healesville 8/124 defeated Laburnum 121
Playing at Queens Park, Healesville bowled first and struggled to get early wickets. But some great bowling later in the innings by Sam Drummond (4/11) enabled them to bowl out Laburnum for 121. The run chase built momentum mid-way through the innings with Lucas Parker 29* and Bailey Rutley 20* scoring quickly and well supported by Sam Drummond 14* to enable Healesville to reach the total with 1 over spare.
Seniors 1st XI – Healesville 7/209 defeated South Warrandyte 7/208 – by Josh Handasyde
This week the Healesville 1st XI faced off against South Warrandyte for the second time in three weeks but this time in a one-day match. Once again Healesville lost the toss and was sent into the field with South Warrandyte getting off to a quick start before spinner Josh Handasyde was able to dismiss 2 of South Warrandyte’s batsmen in the one over and shortly after opener T.Woodward was unluckily run out after a strong drive from Joel Holewa deflected off bowler Josh Handasyde’s hand onto the stumps which had South Warrandyte at 3/85 at the drinks break. A fantastic one-handed diving catch from local hero Brenton Damrow gave Handasyde his third wicket leaving him with figures of 3/40 off his 8 overs. But the pick of the bowlers was Damrow with 3/28 with a scintillating hat trick late in the innings to ignite the Bloods as South Warrandyte ended at 7/208. The Bloods went out to bat and were quickly on the back foot at 3/15 and the situation got worse when Michael Jackson was sent to hospital after being struck in the face by bouncer and skipper Kris Anderson out shortly afterwards, leaving the Bloods at 5/34 chasing 208. Luke Chandler and Ben Wallace got to work at rebuilding the innings and got the total to 5/90 at the drinks break. Ben Wallace departed with the score on 130 which bought Troy Poynton to the crease with the team requiring 78 from the last 15 overs of the game. With some great batting from Luke Chandler and support from Troy Poynton, the Bloods were able to get it down to 50 runs required when Poynton was bowled for 17. Luke Chandler was dismissed soon after for a match-winning 92 off 85 balls leaving the Bloods 7/167 requiring 40 off 6 overs. Liam English and the ever-energetic Dillon Kerr joined at the crease and were busy from the start running hard between wickets and chipping away with ones and twos with the odd boundary and were able to get it down to 5 runs required off the last over before Kerr hit the final boundary to give the Bloods a 3 wicket win with 4 balls remaining. Kerr 21 off 14 balls and English 19 off 18 balls getting Healesville over the line. Heading into the Christmas break Healesville sits fifth on the ladder with 4 wins and 3 losses but even on points with third.
Seniors 2nd XI – Healesville 7/163 defeated by Mt Evelyn 5/218 – by Ethan Nikcevich
Healesville won the toss and sent Mount Evelyn in for a bat. Scott Fawdry picked up the danger man Luke Paterson for just 10 before Steve Martin came in at number 3 and made a classy 96* and paired with Chris Doyle (61*) for a late partnership to push Mount Evelyn to 5/218 off their 35 overs with Jack Drummond picking up 3 wickets. Needing 219 to win Ben Mackey (17) and Tom Handasyde (21) started strong but were both dismissed before the drinks break. Riley Cameron (43*) was the highlight with the bat and paired with Moss Fawdry (19) and Jack Drummond (27*) to push closer to the target but fell short ending the innings on 7/163.
Seniors 3rd XI – Healesville 3/180 defeated Ainslie Park 169 – by Sam Drummond
Healesville 3rd XI was sent into bat first with the dynamic duo, father and son Jack and Dave Plunkett opening up. The two quickly made runs with both batsmen making 27 and 28 respectively. Curtis Adamson came to the crease but was caught for 8. Gabriel Houlihan was next to bat and batted the rest of the innings compiling 37 not out. Matt Wilkinson, batsman of the match, came in afterwards retiring not out for 54 having hit a monstrous six to cap out the half-century. Vinny Plunkett 13* batted out the innings with Gabriel. Healesville finished the innings at 3-180. D Sykes and T. Flahavin opened the batting for Ainslie Park making 32 and 14 respectively. Bailey Rutley and Gabriel Houlihan managed to dismiss the two openers. DJ Parkinson and GA Thomas then came to the crease, making a combined total of 61 with Parkinson making 21 (run out) and Thomas making 40 (caught). Sam Drummond and Denzel Parsons took the two wickets, ending what was a well-needed partnership for Ainslie Park. G. Walles was dismissed by Gabriel Houlihan with a small total of 1, sending N. Delahunty into bat who finished with 28 before being dismissed by Bailey Rutley. Wickets then began to fall with MJ Thomas, A. Vanhoogstraten, I. Dharmasena and M. Sykes making 12, 1, 1 and 0 respectively. The best bowling figures for Healesville were 3-24 off 5.3 overs (Sam Drummond) and 3-28 off 5 overs (Bailey Rutley). Curtis Adamson was the fielder of the match, taking two lovely catches. Congratulations to Healesville 3rd XI on their first win of the season and good luck to both teams when they come back after the break!
Seniors 4th XI – Healesville won by forfeit
