Batting first, Jacob Phillingham was the lone Tatura batsman to venture into double digits, but with castles falling all around the opener’s score meant little in the grand scheme of things as his side was rolled for 54.
Numurkah’s resident run-scoring machine Hunter Verhoeven had the Tatura bowlers tearing their hair out, smoking three to the ropes and one over the fence to top score for his side with 22.
Paired with contributions from two of the competition’s finest batsmen in Dustan Ebborn (15) and Bailey Roberts (17), the Blues kept the pace up to steam over the line and go nine points clear at the top.
At Memorial Oval, Euroa triumphed at home against Mooroopna thanks to an enrapturing spell from wizard Oliver Wilson.
The strike bowler announced himself on the junior stage with aplomb, taking 4-7 in two and a half overs to have the Cats all out for 84.
Josh Robertson and Nicholas McCabe dealt the bulk of the damage to the Mooroopna attack amassing 37 runs between them, while the Cats couldn’t find their line and length as 35 extras smothered the side’s chances of victory.
In the under-14 division, titan Numurkah took all the spoils against Old Students at Congupna.
Quick-fire knocks of 18 and 16 from Mitchell Higgins and Isaac Chandler respectively set a platform for Students, but a stranglehold from the Numurkah bowlers left the side languishing on 6-93 at the end of the innings.
Up stepped Blues opener Riley Dawson, whose anchoring 31 not out not only steered his side to the win, but also had him reach 150 runs for the season.
In a Deakin Reserve derby, Notre Dame-St Brendan’s Gold clinched a win against counterpart Notre Dame-St Brendan’s Black thanks to a close-fisted bowling display.
After restricting Black to 7-56 from its 25 overs, Gold’s Mason Reeves (25) and Tarkyn Huffer (21) creamed the ball all over the oval for their side to take the points with relative ease.
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