On a day when just two wickets fell in three sessions, the Launceston captain-coach shared a 202-run stand with good mate Zac Oldenhof to lead his side to an easy victory over Mowbray.

Taylor was at the crease when Oldenhof made his second first-grade hundred, and stayed even after the right-hander was caught off Cobey Evans for 101. 

He put on a quickfire 50-run stand with Rowan Smith before declaring at 4-323 with a personal tally of 132 not out.  

"I’m thrilled for Zac ... he’s a had a bit of a rough patch lately and he’s been fantastic," Taylor said.

"We love batting with one another - we’re pretty good mates off the field so it’s pretty easy to bat with him.

"We obviously haven't done it too much this year with playing in the Raiders but we got a good opportunity today - he’s a ripping bloke to bat with."

Taylor's hundred was his second for the season after a brutal 101 in a T20 against George Town.

The wicketkeeper has shown no signs of feeling the pressure since adding the head coach role to his captaincy last year, amassing 386 runs for the Lions despite playing a majority of his cricket for the Greater Northern Raiders.

"There’s probably a bit more pressure on the shoulders to perform and I’m probably just maturing as a player," he said.

"I did a lot of work in pre-season to change pretty much my whole batting technique so that’s worked pretty well and trying to perform well for the boys … we’re all best mates here at the club so you want each other to do well.

"You enjoy each other's success and today it was me and Zac - hopefully next week it’ll be someone else.

"To score a hundred for your club is a fantastic feeling and to have two in the one innings - I don’t think we’ve had that for a very long time, we can’t think of one in the last 10 years I don’t think."

Launceston gave itself 34 overs to shoot for an outright win, but the Eagles stood firm to reach 1-124 with Luke Scott making 53 not out and captain John LeFevre 40. 

WESTBURY snatched a crucial win against South Launceston as Dane Anderson strolled to his second ton of the season. 

Chasing 192, the Knights appeared to be cruising towards victory at 4-137 until some expert fielding from Matthew Battle stemmed the flow.

Playing his first game of the year, the all-rounder ran out star batsman Nathan Philip and before long the home side was 173 all out. 

A day that saw two batsmen dismissed hit wicket then afforded Cricket North's most prolific run-scorer a splendid 114 not out as Westbury finished 6-234. 

Shamrocks skipper Richard Howe said the run-out and spin twins Will Donald and Kieren Hume had helped turn the game. 

Donald took 3-19 from 19.4 overs and bowled 14 maidens to take his season tally to 42, while Hume took 2-26 off 16.

"Matty Battle ran Nathan Philip out just after the first drinks break and that got us going a little bit, we got a little bit of belief through the group," Shamrocks skipper Richard Howe said.

"After that the guys in the field lifted, we got another run out and the two spinners did a really good job maintaining pressure on the batsmen and maintained line and lengths and building up that dot ball pressure which was really good in the finish."

Howe said Anderson's knock was a good sign leading into finals. 

"He sort of showed a few other guys how to go about it - controlling an innings and making sure you’re there at the end of the day.

"He’s been in pretty good nick all year and we just hope he can keep continuing his form for us for the rest of the year."

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