WESTERN Zone’s three junior sides got their season underway in the best possible fashion by sweeping all their trial games against Gordon in Bathurst on Monday.
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The under 18s colts boys led the way with their comfortable 109 run success at The Scots’ School while Western’s under 16s were made to work hard for their 34 run win at Brooke Moore Oval.
The standout performance of the day across all age groups came from Bathurst junior Hamish Siegert at his home ground, All Saints’ College.
His unbeaten century (101) for the under 14s set up Western’s 47 run victory.
While Siegart was the standout, a number of Dubbo players impressed in the under 18s.
It wasn’t an ideal start with the bat for the oldest of the Western teams, with Nic Broes (1) and Mark Day (0) removed inside four overs.
With the score at 2-5 the remaining Western opener Sam Hall (37) helped to get the innings back under control before Dubbo duo Tom Atlee and Thomas Nelson took over.
The duo added 47 for the fifth wicket, Atlee departing for a well-made 56 while Nelson anchored the innings.
Western’s tail showed fight, Nelson finishing made 43 as his side was bowled out for 217 in the 49th over.
With the ball in hand Western never allowed Gordon to gain any rhythm.
When Gordon were reduced to 3-23 in the space of 15 overs Western were on the track for a big win.
There was some middle over resistance but it was futile as Gordon was bowled all out for 108.
Ryan Peacock finished with Western’s best figures of 3-8 while Dubbo’s Ben Knagss finished with 2-16 from five.
Western under 18s manager Greg Nicholls said his team’s big effort in the field made up for a mixed day with the willow.
“I think it just came down to our guys bowling good lines,” Western 18s manager Greg Nicholls said.
“Luke Powell and Hamish Starr set us up really well from the start. Peakers (Peacock) obviously bowled really well for his three-fer.”
Nicholls will take the win but was disappointed to see his side fall short of batting out their 50 overs.
“Young Sam Hall batted very well. Tom Atlee and Tom Nelson had a great partnership which kept our innings together,” he said.
“We should have got 250 but because we were down on wickets we couldn’t really afford to accelerate. Given that we were down on wickets early getting to 217 was good in that sense.”
In the Western under 16s game it was the Tanvir Singh and Ben Mitchell show.
Singh (79, 3-37) and Mitchell (37, 3-19) produced stunning all-round performances in their side’s victory while Siegert led the 14s to a dominant win.
