Riverside's Sophie Parkin dominates in Cricket North women's competition

A devastating opening spell saw Parkin claim the first three wickets without her teammates' assistance to leave the hosts reeling at 3-8.

Two clean bowleds and a caught and bowled contributed to Parkin's eventual figures of 3-8 and a maiden off her three overs.

Georgia Brain (a run-a-ball 19) and Isabel Partridge, who saw out the innings on 22 not out, stopped the rot and helped Mowbray reach 6-78 off their 20 overs.

Katie Broad followed Parkin's example with a miserly 2-4 - also including a maiden - off her three overs.

Not content with a job half done, Parkin then hit an unbeaten 38 at the top of the order to see her side to a nine-wicket win.

Phoebe Atkins claimed the solitary wicket to fall as the Blues nailed the chase inside eight overs.

A big fourth-wicket partnership between Meg Radford and Alice McLauchlan saw SOUTH LAUNCESTON to a five-wicket win over LAUNCESTON.

Ianthe Boden's fifth consecutive 30-plus score of 37 was the backbone of the Lions' innings as Victoria Geale (18) and Anna Janssen (12 not out) helped the total along to 5-102.

Four South bowlers claimed a wicket each.

In reply, South lost three of their top five for a total of just nine runs, but the other two made sure that didn't matter.

Radford eventually fell for 34 while McLauchlan amassed a quickfire 38 off 24 before falling just two runs short of the victory target.

Jade Devlin (2-25 off three) and Mary Broadhurst (2-28 off four) topped the bowling figures although Claire Alexander managed to claim the prized scalp of McLauchlan with a clean bowled despite only sending down three deliveries.

The win was secured with five-and-a-half overs to spare.