South Launceston has secured a valuable bonus point with an 83-run win over Cricket North-West champion Burnie.
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Batting first at home, the Knights made 240 as Sean Harris posted his career-best first grade total of 130 not out.
The right-hander hit five sixes in the two-and-a-half-hour knock and looked likely to win the game off his own bat when the Hurricanes fell to 5-37.
A 108-run stand between Zach Walker (59) and Joe Fryett stopped the rot before Burnie's innings eventually ended on 157.
MORE CRICKET
Dane Anderson scored his second ton in as many weeks as WESTBURY took a 101-run bonus-point win over Devonport.
In a mood for runs on his 35th birthday, Anderson (120 off 96 balls) clubbed seven fours and seven sixes and shared a stand of 127 with captain Dan Murfet (49) before both fell in succession.
It was only Samuel Fogg's 5-45 that helped keep the Shamrocks to 243 all out - a total that seemed chaseable, but wasn't.
Oli Wood's 3-17 off 9.2 overs and Matthew Battle's 2-9 off seven overs strangled the life out of the Orions, who ended 142 all out with the determined Brent Lawler unbeaten with 31 off 90.
LAUNCESTON fought back from a top-order collapse to win against Wynyard for the second year running.
Struggling at 7-88 despite Cam Lynch's 31, the Lions scrapped 60 runs out of Will Bennett, Matthew Woods and Daniel Smith to reach 155 as Darcey Brazendale and Hashan Abeyrathna combined for 6-37.
Woods (3-12) and Smith (3-33) then followed up their batting heroics to help skittle the Blues for 100 and secure an unlikely bonus point.
Brazendale was again the pick of the batters for Wynyard with an unbeaten 20.
A flurry of middle-order wickets and a run-a-ball 53 from Chris Boon helped Latrobe to a four-wicket win over RIVERSIDE.
Cruising at 1-71, the Blues found themselves in dire straits at 7-126 when Paul Dickson took three quick wickets.
It was only a patient 49 from Josh Partridge and a pillaging 45 not out from Lyndon Stubbs that got the Blues to a competitive 192.
Sam Artis, West Indian Kirk Thompson and Tom Garwood all took two wickets to have the Demons on edge at 6-166, but Boon and Dickson saw the visitors home with five overs to spare.
MOWBRAY was bowled out for just 59 in a disappointing loss to Ulverstone.
Sent into the field, the Eagles couldn't dismiss opener Jacob Snare (65 not out) but kept the hosts to 5-188 as Spencer Hayes (4-38) took his best A-grade haul.
A cricket lesson followed as only John LeFevre and gritty opener Will Dakin made it into double figures.
Coby Walmsley and Liam Quaile both took three poles.
TOP PERFORMERS
- Sean Harris 130*
- Dane Anderson 120
- Josh Walmsley 70
- Samuel Fogg 5-45
- Spencer Hayes 4--37
- Matthew Woods 3-12
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