By Chris Handasyde
U12-3 Healesville 2/127 defeated Lilydale 7/100
Ryder Hudson 41*, Kael Senti 31*, Jackson Lehman 3/7
U12-7 Healesville 7/64 lost to Wandin 2/68
The U12’s took on the Wandin Bulldogs away in Wandin and wow, what a display from the re-grouped Healesville side.
Welcoming Levi to the group the boys all displayed significantly improved all-round skills compared to last season.
The game was tight and finished with a loss by only three runs.
Plenty of energy and excitement for the season ahead!
U14-3 Healesville 8/91 defeated Wantirna Sth 9/86
Travelling to Wantirna the team won the toss and elected to bowl on a slow boggy outfield.
Endo Gotch got the first wicket caught at first slip, and a strong bowling effort ensued.
Tight bowling and good fielding meant Wantirna South were strangled from the get go.
Harry Duff bowling fast left arm finished with 2/8 and Harry Thomas and Mika Kerst took 2/3 apiece hitting the spot.
Some late runs meant Wantirna South scraped up to 9/86 after their 25 overs.
Raff Morcombe and Max Ferris opened the batting and were both back sitting in the shed quickly due to some good fast bowling with James Howden knocking a couple of boundaries before joining them leaving Healesville nervous at 3/10.
Louis Keath and Harry Duff joined at the wicket, and a fortunate innings from Keath seeing him dropped four times and bowled on a no-ball saw him finish on 20 runs not out, a crucial innings that Wantirna will be kicking themselves about.
Summer Caldicott made 12* and Harry Thomas 10. With the bloods chasing down the total in the second last over with two wickets left in the shed left for a nerve racking victory with Endo Gotch and Henry Harding seeing the team over the line. Well Done.
U14-7 Healesville 4/101 defeated by Chirnside Park 3/111
Taylor Caldicott 15*, Tully Ellis 14* Monty Forbes 11*, Tully Ellis 2/5
U16-4 Healesville 6/101 defeated Yarra Glen 9/94
Denzel Parsons 27*, Cooper Bell 18*, Sam Keath 14, Cooper Bell 2/9, Tyler Braden 2/7
The Healesville U16 boys had their first win for the Season versing Yarra Glen at home at Don Road.
Again playing short with nine players and the now permanent young fielder Eli to give us 10 on the field, Healesville won the toss and elected to Bowl.
Some good disciplined bowling and great fielding/chatter, kept Yarra Glen to 9/94 off their 25 overs.
The wickets were shared around with Cooper bell, 2/9 (four overs), Tyler Braden 2/7 (three overs) the main strikers, Denzel Parsons, Sam Drummond, Will Watson and Sam Keath all chipped in with one wicket.
Some great fielding has the team still with no dropped catches for the year, Patty Leonard snaring 2, Tyler, Denzel and Sam K all with one, and a great run out by Wyat Coleman had the boys all up an about to chase.
The two Sams opened and looked like they were both going to retire until Sam K was bowled on his 25th ball, but they had set the scene with 26 runs between them, Cooper Bell (18), Denzel P (27 and Cooper Duff (12) followed on the good start to get the boys to 6/101 and the win with one over to spare.
1st XI Healesville 6/175 defeated by East Ringwood 5/179
For the First Full Match of the season, the 1st travelled to East Ringwood seeking vengeance against the side who knocked them out in the Prelim final last season.
Being sent in to bat, Josh Handasyde and Nick Zinghini gave the bloods the perfect start navigating through the strong East Ringwood attack which boasted good fast bowlers.
The boys built a strong partnership building through the overs before Zinghini was dismissed for 43 with the score 1/129 after 27 overs.
The perfect platform. Max Minney joined Handasyde at the crease who continued to work hard but Minney was unfortunately caught at Mid-Wicket, Luke Chandler then soon followed.
The collapse meant the Bloods had to rebuild through the Handasyde boys before Josh trying to push the score along was stumped for a well made 83.
Healesville finished on 6/175, 20-30 runsshort of what they expected after a strong start.
But still defendable with strike Bowler Mitch Tampaline taking a wicket in the first over.
Unfortunately for Healesville bad bowling meant that the runs flowed and it wasn’t until Josh Handasyde came on when they got their second breakthrough at 2/105.
Handasyde would take another wicket bowling tightly and restricting the batsmen but the game was too forgone and East Ringwood finished up the game in the 36th over.
2nd XI Healesville 8/228 defeated Kilsyth 124
The 2nds won the toss and went into bat.
Kris Andersen got off to a flying start again until his innings was cut short for 27.
During a bit of a top order collapse max wallace kept his cool batting patiently while we were 5-105 things were looking grim.
Harry Baxter then came to the crease and settled in with max until max was dismissed for a well earned 46.
After losing a couple more quick wickets Allan Pearce came to the crease at a score of 8-141 with 14 overs left to bat used his wealth of experience to work with Harry to get us to a final score of 8/228 scoring 43* and Harry finishing off a well earned 54*.
Max wallace and Darcy English opened up the bowling striking early with Max getting two quick wickets.
Darcy bowling with speed and accuracy tore through Kilsyth’s attack earning himself his first senior cricket five wicket haul finishing with 5/27 from eight overs.
Sam Keath bowled well getting his first 2nd XI wicket and Dylan Edwards finished off Kilsyth with a sharp catch in short by Kris Andersen also getting his first 2nd XI wicket dismissing Kilsyth for 124 runs
3rd XI Healesville 111 defeated St Andrews 107
Bloods win a nail biter
Healesville lost the toss and were sent in by St Andrew’s.
Runs were very hard to come by on a sponging and slow ground.
Jesse Thomas (19 off 75) played a great anchor role as wickets were falling around him, Healesville posted a score of 111 (G.Braden 37, M.Wilkinson 17) which was defendable.
Our bowlers got the job done with fantastic performances from S.Drummond, T.Braden, E.Nikcevich and S.Caldicott (all two wickets) getting Healesville over the line by four runs.
4th XI Healesville 9/131 defeated by Heatherdale 0/133
Aeden Senti 27, Brad Reid 27, Matt Harding 20
