Outrights elude to sides

Despite big batting efforts last week, Lake Illawarra, Warilla Sports, The Rail and Oak Flats were unable to emerge from Saturday’s round of matches with outright wins, despite securing first innings points.

Warilla Sports and Jamberoo produced the best game of the day when Jamberoo made a solid reply to the Sports’ first innings of eight for 252.

Resuming at 2-79, Jamberoo finished with 213, led by a solid innings of 63 from Ian Bradburn (63) and good contributions from Luke Rogers (33) and Liam Mann (32).

Opening bowler Corey Piccarillo was best of the Kookaburra’s bowlers with 4-45.

Warilla went on the attack in their second innings and scored 5 for 195 off just 27.4 overs, thanks to Chris Jarman (56 not out) and Mick Perry (45) to set up their chance of securing outright points and went within an ace of doing that when Jamberoo were 7-48 at stumps, with Ellis Dale finishing with 4-18.

Gerringong Jets faced an uphill battle against Oak Flats when they resumed at 2-29 chasing the Rats six for 313 and battled hard before being bowled out for 212, with Matt Crouch top scoring with a determined 32. Ty Cherry took 4-37 and Darren O’Connell 2-22 for the Flats.

Following on, Gerringong finished the day at six wickets down for 182, with opener Glenn Hamblen remaining 59 not out, while Matt Tyler (31) and Hayden Horne (33) also batting well. Young spinner Jack Bennett finished with the best bowling figures with 3/67.

A second century of the season by Shellharbour’s Pat Moulton kept the pressure on The Rail, who were defending their score of five declared for 305, with Shellharbour eventually being bowled out for 272.

Moulton scored 116 and received solid support from John Puckeridge (33), Matt Phelps (30) and Rob Monaghan (34 not out), with Andrew Warren producing a superb bowling effort to finish with 7-92 off 72 overs.

Batting a second time, the Rail finished the day at five for 109, with Scott Groves scoring 35 and Monaghan and Chris Tonks taking two wickets each.

The remaining game saw Lake Illawarra go within one wicket of taking outright points when Kiama finished the day at nine wickets down in their second innings.

Chasing the Lakers 253, Kiama succumbed to the wiley spin on Tony Panecasio (5-40) to be bowled out for 144, with John Simon top scoring for the Cavaliers with 28.

Folliwng on, Kiama finished at 9-125, with Ben King-Gee (22), Jaya Hartgerink (29) and Dale Scifleet (28) their best, while Panecasio again best with 3-34 from 18 overs.