By Chris Handasyde
U12-4: Semi Final – Healesville 7/70 defeated Mt Evelyn 8/69
A nailbiter at Queens park on Friday night sees the Healesville U12 division 4 team into the grand final next week.
Wining the toss and bowling first the Healesville team were alert in the field and bowled tight lines, giving away the least number of extras for the year.
A wicket to Manny Winrow 1/6 in the first over set the tone as the team collected 5 catches and two runouts to bowl Mt Evelyn out for 69 runs in the 22nd over. Other wicket takers were Jackson Leahman 2/11, Ahren Wicker 2/7 and Arthur Coleman 1/1.
The modest total was almost too much for Healesville though, losing 3 wickets in the first 5 overs.
Some disciplined, steady batting in the middle kept the team in the game, but it was Ahren Wicker from the 10th over who played the aggressor smacking 3 boundaries on the way to top scoring with 18 off 15 balls allowing Manny Winrow 6 N.O. and Ryder Hudson 9 N.O. to bring the team home, winning by one wicket with 5 overs to spare. Mika Kirst with 12 runs and Gus Morcombe with 7 were the other batters in the runs.
A great team effort sets them up for a grand finale against minor premiers Mooroolbark next Friday
U14-3: Healesville 9/213 defeated by Knox City 6/217
With Finals not on the horizon for the U14-3 team but 213 on the board we were keen to finish the season with a win.
Knox City bought their A game and wickets were tough to get.
Unfortunately the team’s total was passed with 7 overs remaining.
Henry Harding 3/28 was our only multiple wicket taker.
Having moved up into a higher division this season the team proved they are capable and this season was a great learning curve on the way to improving the team.
U14-7: Healesville 130 defeated by St Andrews 9/179
Half way through this split innings match where both teams had batted 25 overs last week, the team was 29 runs behind.
St Andrews resumed their innings on 4/85 and scored another 94 runs in their next 25 overs.
The highlight was Summer Caldicott claiming her first 5 wicket haul with 5/9 from 7 overs.
Needing 124 from the team’s last 25 overs, they stumbled early and the score was too great.
Alex Simmons made his highest score with 21 and Mika Kerst made 18.
Tully Ellis who had retired last week come back out and remained not out on 22.
U16-4: Healesville 7/205 defeated Warranwood 9/179
With the finals on the line we continued our bowling innings and kept Warranwood to 9/179 from their allotted 50 overs.
Denzel Parsons claimed 2/16 and most bowlers got a wicket each.
Resuming the team’s innings on 3/106, they needed 74 runs from 25 overs.
Denzel Parsons 39* and Tyler Braden 27* continued on from last week and Sam Drummond 35* batted well to ensure we passed the total and book their place in the first final next week.
Senior Female – Tuesday 27 Feb Healesville 8/67 defeated by Bayswater Park 0/147
The last game had the team bowling first against some very good batting.
Unable to capture a wicket Bayswater Park amased 0/147 from their 20 overs.
The girls were determined to bat out our 20 overs and that they did.
Summer Caldicott the star with the bat scoring 33.
Thanks to all the girls for getting our Female team on the ground.
The enthusiasm and effort has been fantastic and look forward to building on this first season.
Seniors 1st XI: Healesville 151 defeated by Lusatia Park 9/259
Chased 259 at Woori Yallock and to remain in 3rd position, the team got off to a bad start losing opener Mark Powell for 2 then Josh Handasyde for 3.
Constant dismissals meant the run chase never had momentum.
The super reliable Ryan Webster 48 batted well and Ash Hamer made 38.
The team now had back to Woori Yallock reserve this week to play Lusatia Park in an elimination final.
Seniors 2nd XI: Healesville 7/186 defeated Lusatia Park 183, Healesville 4/52 Vs Lusatia Park 183 (Two Day Match)
The team was 4/52 at close of play last week so needed another 132.
Jonny Heywood 108* lead the charge but with wickets falling around him the game remained in the balance right to the end.
Darcy English made 16* from 36 balls to put on a crucial 46 run partnership with Jonny to get the team over the line and into the finals.
Coming from last on the ladder a Christmas, the team has played some great cricket to sneak into finals.
Seniors 3rd XI: Healesville 7/173 defeated Coldstream 4/168
A must win game to make finals, the team had to play top of the ladder Coldstream.
Coldstream batted first and wickets were hard to get as Coldstream batted solidly to reach 4/168 from their 36 overs.
Denzel Parson took 3/27.
It come down to make 169+ to play finals.
Father son combination Grant and Tyler Braden opened with Grant setting up the innings with 70.
Denzel made 19 and Eli Prentice was batting well for 30 until he was bowled.
Needing 22 from 24 balls the game was in the balance.
Some late runs from Tom Dalley and Jess Thomas got us over the line in the last over and into the finals.
Seniors 4th XI: Healesville 103 defeated by Kilsyth 5/105
With finals out of reach, the team batted first and was bowled out for 103 on a hard and fast ground.
Adam Keath top scored with 33 and Tom Robinson made his highest score this season with 10.
They bowled well and got ourselves in the game having Kilsyth 4/36 and then 5/65.
However Kilsyth got a partnership going to finish off the game.
Megan Schelfhout bowled well with 2/12 and Sam Keath bowled 3 maidens with figures of 1/8.
