Sport
5 March, 2024
Harry’s Heroes: Malone steers flag success
BOORT YANDO have come back from a one year hiatus to become the 2023-2024 Upper Loddon junior premiers. In taking out their fourth Upper Loddon flag, Boort Yando who led the competition all season, were able to overcome Kingower’s total of 7/104...
BOORT YANDO have come back from a one year hiatus to become the 2023-2024 Upper Loddon
junior premiers.
In taking out their fourth Upper Loddon flag, Boort Yando who led the competition all season, were able to overcome Kingower’s total of 7/104 to register a seven wicket victory.
Played on the turf wicket at Wedderburn, play commenced on Saturday with Kingower having first use of the wicket. No Kingower batsmen were able to take full control of the bowling, although Tyler Murphy and Evan McCoy who top scored with 24, were able to add 40 runs for the
second wicket, the best partnership of the innings.
Ryder Smith was unlucky to get a shooter from Lachie Hall in the first over following the break, before Leah McCoy and Morgan Lonza shared in a 32-run sixth wicket partnership to ensure Kingower batted out the day.
Harry Malone took the wickets of both openers while Deklan King also took two wickets, conceding only 10 runs off his eight overs. Luke Boyd also bowled economically sending down eight overs for just seven runs.
Boort Yando started their innings cautiously on Sunday, losing the wicket of the league’s leading run scorer Cooper Gooding with the score on seven.
When Hall departed 13 runs later, the game was evenly poised. Malone joined Owen Byrne who was solely concentrating on holding up an end, and this pair shared in what was a match-winning partnership of 73.
Malone dominated the scoring reaching his 50 which included eight boundaries and one six.
Byrne was finally dismissed in the 33rd over , with his team in sight of victory, for a very patient eleven runs. Byrne’s contribution was enormously important to his team’s win.
Three Kingower shared the wickets while Jackson Luckman while not successful , was extremely frugal in having only one ball scored off in his seven overs.
Following the game Boort Yando’s captain Malone was presented with the Les and Margaret Miller Premiership Shield. He was also named player of the finals.
Jasmine Nevins of the Melbourne Stars helped out with the other presentations which included the Inglewood and Districts Community Bank’s Player of the year Riley Murphy (381 points), batting Cooper Gooding (273 runs) and bowling awards Darby Perryman (13 wickets average 3.92).
Boort Yando v Kingower
Kingower
T. Murphy b H. Malone 19
R. Murphy c G. Gooding b H. Malone 0
E. McCoy b D. King 24
J. Luckman b D. King 0
R. Smith lbw b L. Hall 6
L. McCoy caught & b F. Arnold 12
M. Lonza c L. Hall b F. Gjorup 19
R. Leach not out 0
X. Wilson not out 0
Extras 24
Total 7/104
Bowling H. Malone 10-3-2-24, L. Boyd 8-5-0-7, S. Toose 7-2-0-12, L. Hall 7-3-1-14, D. King 8-3-2-10, O. Byrne 1-0-0-1, D. Perryman 3-0-0-9, F. Arnold 2-0-1-4, T. Zanker 2-0-0-10, F. Gjorup 1-0-1-4
Boort Yando
O. Byrne c E. McCoy b R. Murphy 11
C. Gooding b T. Murphy 4
L. Hall c J. Luckman b R. Smith 9
H. Malone retired 52
L. Boyd not out 2
S. Toose not out 7
Extras 20
Total 105
Bowling T. Murphy 10-2-1-25, R. Murphy 10-2-1-19, R. Smith 6-0-1-26, J. Luckman 7-6-0-4, M. Lonza 1-0-0-9, E. McCoy 1-0-0-3