By Michael Jackson, Josh Handasyde, Adam Keath, Ben Wallace, Matt Wilkinson, Pete Nolan and Chris Handasyde
U12-3 No game
U12-7 Healesville 3/74 defeated Hoddles Creek 5/69
Healesville Under 12’s finished off the first half of the season with a win against Hoddles Creek, their fifth to date.
Healesville restricted Hoddles to 69 with excellent bowling from Otis Rowland (3/7 off 3 overs), who narrowly missed a hatrick.
All bowlers did well with Rory Jackson Ward (1/4 off 3) and Arlo Turner (1/16 off 3) being the other wicket takers.
Healesville chased the score down with plenty of overs to spare. Angus Holmes once again showed his batting strength with an unbeaten 26, well supported by Alby Gotch, (13 n.o.). Felix McMahon (6 n.o)and Rory Jackson-Ward (6 n.o.) put on a good partnership to guide Healesville home.
With two byes for the next two rounds, the Healesville players are setting up well for a run towards our first finals series.
U14-3 Healesville 8/160 defeated Norwood 9/80
Away against Norwood Aeden Senti won the toss and elected to bat on a pristine outfield.
Mika Kerst and James Howden opened up with Mika going out on his penultimate ball for 17.
Aeden would make 24 before being dismissed with a consistent flow of wickets at the other end.
The only other resistance in the middle was Raff Morcombe plundering 17 runs off six balls before being bowled. With the score 7/80 off 11 overs.
The team was in a strange situation when Summer Caldicott and Louis Keath came together and batted brilliantly running well and punishing the bad ball to finish 19* and 29* respectively.
Ryder Hudson and Henry Harding would finish up the innings at 9/160.
A big score that would be hard to chase.
Early in roads were hard to get but tight bowling was displayed with Louis Keath picking up 3/4 in the middle overs and then a consistent flow once the dam wall break with lots of one wicket hauls to most bowlers, with Norwood ending 9/80, another good win for the team as they approach the Christmas break.
U14-7 Healesville 6/109 defeated by Heatherdale 5/110
Tully Ellis 25*, Manny Winrow 18*, Angus Morcombe 13* and 1/7, Kael Senti 11* and 1/10, Thomas Quaggin 1/6
U16-4 Healesville 2/115 defeated Chirnside Park 5/112
A beautiful day greeted us at Don Road as Healesville got ready to play Chirnside Park, a lot of outs and last minute inclusions meant Healesville had 10 on the field for the first time this year.
Winning the toss and bowling, the team were energetic and kept it tight all day, keeping Chirnside to 5/112, the wicket takers Denzel Parsons, 1/4 off 3, Tyler Braden 1/9 off 3, Tom Handasyde 1/13 off 3 and Cooper Bell 1/17 off 4.
A run out from Tom also rounded out the wickets.
The chase started strong and steady with the openers Tyler Braden 21 (25 balls) retired and Sam Keath eight retired seeing off the new ball.
Leonard Robinson nine retired, Cooper Bell and Nate Caldicott continued with the steady progress against some very good bowling, leaving us at 2/59 off 16 overs.
With wickets in hand and captain Denzel and new addition Tom coming to the crease we needed 54 off the last nine overs.
Some hitting saw this halved by the end of the 20th over and the needed run rate reduced to under six.
In the end the pair reached the target with seven balls to spare, Denzel undefeated on 33 off 22 balls and Tom on 28 off his 25.
A great tight win leaving us outright second on the ladder at the half way mark of the year.
1st XI Healesville 4/122 defeated Wantirna Sth 9/119
Making the voyage to Wantirna South, Skipper Darren Edwards won the toss and elected to field with Edwards himself getting the early breakthrough.
It was slow going early before Darcy English strangled the other opener down the leg side.
A slow outfield and little intent to score meant boring cricket for a while before Josh Handasyde lured the batsmen down the wicket for a stumping from brother Tom.
The game continued to peter out with Josh creating a plethora of chances that weren’t taken before Maxy ‘cleaning crew’ Minney seemed to have the golden arm taking 3/14 to see Wantirna finish on 9/119.
Chasing a low score both Joah Handasyde and Zinghini departed early.
Tom Handasyde and Ash Hamer would build a partnership and steady the ship before Ash was bowled.
Max Minney made a nice 25 before barbecuing himself seeing Luke Chandler to come in and give the crowd something to watch lobbing 6s and 4s to finish the game off with Chang ending 16* and Tom 46*.
A nice win for the team seeing them a game clear on second with a big clash against ladder leaders Wonga Park next week before the Christmas Break Up.
2nd XI Healesville 170 defeated Yarra Junction 96
Healesville won the toss and chose to bat. With regular wickets falling and a slow run rate, Healesville found themselves in a bit of trouble at 4/57.
A quick fire 29 off 22 balls from Grant Braden helped tick the score along.
With wickets continuing to fall, Ryan Webster (60*) batted superbly.
He batted through the innings, guiding the Bloods to a competitive 170 after the 40 overs.
Healesville’s bowling couldn’t have gotten off to a better start. Max Wallace 5/8 ripping through Yarra Junction’s top order.
With Beau Hawkins (1/17) chipping in with a wicket, the Bloods had them at 6/20. With a bit of resistance from Yarra Junction’s Troy Poynton (48) the Bloods continued to bowl a tight line and length.
With Brenton Damrow 2/26, and Grant Braden 2/6, Yarra Junction were all out for 96. Great win for Healesville to stay in the top four.
3rd XI Healesville 166 defeated by Kilsyth 4/170
A tough loss for the Healesville 3rds this week.
After winning the toss and batting first, the bloods found themselves in trouble early with Travis Tyszkiewicz claiming a hat trick in the seventh over of the match.
Ben Mackey (32), Aeden Senti (30no) and Raff Morecombe (55) gave Healesville a competitive total of 166.
Healesvilles bowlers were up against it on a very quick outfield. Summer Caldicott bowling superbly with 1/16 off 6. Healesville eventually going down by six wickets
4th XI – Healesville 9/224 defeated Norwood 6/222
Norwood 6th XI hosted Healesville 4th XI at Dorset Recreation Reserve. Norwood won the toss and elected to bat. Norwoods opening batsman got off to a fast start, the home side making 139 runs before loosing their first wicket.
Bowling got a bit easier at this point Healesville holding Norwood to 6/222 (M Kirst 1/21, L Keith 1/24, A Keith 1/29, H Harding 1/31).
Knowing Healesville needed to get off to a great start A Keith wasted no time smashing 48 off just 26 deliveries, the run chase was seeming to be just out of reach with Healesville needing 25 runs off the last two overs with no wickets in left in hand, what heppend next was nothing short of spectacular M Harding and young T Ellis navigating the situation with expertise, M Harding scoring the bulk of the required runs.
Healesville would finish with a total of 9/224 giving Healesville the victory by one wicket (M Harding 72*, A Keith 48, L Keith 24).
5th XI – Healesville had the bye
