Waters took a wicket with his fourth delivery of the innings, then struck again in the fifth, ninth, 13th and 15th overs to have Fire Brigade 5-27.
He finished with 5-18 from eight overs after starting the season with one wicket from two matches in the A-grade competition.
Fraser Cleary and Jigneshsinh Vaghlea joined the party with wickets before a 37-run eighth wicket stand put Fire Brigade back on track.
Brenton Sheppard struck 29 from 30 deliveries (including six boundaries) and Shannon O’Brien (22) offered support as the team limped to be all out for 95 in 33.5 overs.
Vaghlea took 3-28 from 6.5 overs to take his season’s wicket tally to five, while Fraser Cleary took 1-16 from eight overs. In two A-grade matches he had taken three wickets to start the season.
Rochester’s run chase started badly with Matt Harrington, Corey Windridge and Ollie Wiliams out with the score on just 20. A 32-run fourth wicket stand between Ethan Howard (11) and Fraser Cleary (23 from 37 deliveries, with four boundaries) put the Rochester chase back on track.
It was then Nathan McCarty who inspired the tail end to carry the team to victory. He smashed six boundaries in a 35-delivery 28-run total and was the eighth man out with the match tied on 95 apiece.
Waters and Nick O’Connor were at the crease for the winning runs.
– A 65-run opening stand between Craig Williams and Brett Young started the Rochester C-grade match with Moama in the right vein.
Williams was out for 30 (from 47 deliveries) and Young for 43 (from 67 deliveries, with six boundaries) before Christopher Jennings (19) and Leigh Hartshorne (10) continued the momentum.
Unfortunately, the last four wickets fell for just 20 runs as Rochester was 6-120 at the compulsory closure of the innings.
Moama started in similarly bright fashion with a 51-run opening stand, broken by Hartshorne and followed up by the first of two Leigh Dolby wickets.
Dolby struck in successive overs as Moama was 3-55 before a 41-run fourth wicket stand set up its victory.
Moama lost only four wickets in the run chase, finishing at 4-121 after 21.3 overs.
– In women’s B-grade cricket the Rochester team tackled Shepparton Youth Club United, at Moon Oval.
Rochester finished just three runs shy of its target in the Twenty-20 match run chase, despite the efforts of Sadie Martin and Miranda Crawford.
The United team batted after winning the toss and was 6-73 at the end of 20 overs, Sadie Martin continuing a terrific season with three wickets for Rochester.
She took four wickets in an Under 14 match last week, then took 3-6 from three overs for the B-grade team against United.
Phoebe Cuttriss, Bridget Murray and Rebecca Monteith also took wickets for Rochester.
Rochester finished its 20 overs at 6-70, three runs shy of the United target, with Miranda Crawford (19 not out) and Sadie Martin (13 not out) its major contributors.
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