WESTBURY made it back-to-back Cricket North first-grade premierships with a comprehensive victory over South Launceston by an innings and one run in the grand final that wrapped up at the NTCA Ground yesterday.
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The win continued the Shamrocks' amazing run of success with the 2014-15 flag the club's third premiership in four years with Richard Howe a deserving winner of the Ricky Ponting Medal as the man-of-the-match.
South resumed at 8-115, still trailing Westbury's first innings by eight runs and lost its final two wickets quickly for the addition of just seven runs to be all out for 122 in its second dig.
Jonathan Chapman claimed the last two Knights batsmen in Casey Young and Ben Austen to finish with figures of 4-35, off 12.5 overs. It completed another good all-round performance for his team claiming five wickets for the match and 37 runs with the bat alongside Howe's medal-winning effort of seven wickets and 50 runs.
Westbury captain Dane Anderson was proud of his side's performance and the club's continuing success after the win.
"We stuck at the task for three days and I'm proud of the boys and it's hard to put to words," he said. "Everyone's pretty excited and it's good for the club.
"The way we've turned the club around in the past three or four years has been brilliant and it's reward for the loyal servants and helpers by winning this one.
"We have won three of the past four and have a good core bunch of players and I think today we had five of the guys who played in the first one four years ago.
"It shows we are still rotating the players through and the young kids like Joey Cullen and Daniel Murfet played in their first one today and contributed to the team as much as the older guys like myself.
"We bowled really well - we probably didn't get the runs out of the top order we were looking for but at the end of the day it was about getting them and Richard Howe's game was sensational both ways."