There might have been no title win for Western Plains side at the NSW Youth Championships during the past week but the neighbouring Central West is celebrating success in the under 14s.
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After the first round of the championships' Thunder Pool matches were plated in Orange, the rest of the tournament for under 13s, 14s, and 15s sides was hosted by the Dubbo region from last Friday through to Monday.
Central West finished as champions of the under 14s division, with coach Garth Dean's carnival experience proving key.
Dean has coached many representative sides and knows when you win, you need to win big.
It worked out at the championships as his side was crowned champions on nett run rate, just nudging out the Greater Southern Marlins.
The Central West outfit won three of the six games they played and in those victories they were dominant.
They beat Western Plains by 126 runs in their opener at Orange to earn a bonus point. Then at Dubbo Central West crushed Murrumbidgee by 10 wickets and beat CAW Murray by seven wickets.
Though they were unable to win any of their Twenty20 games which followed, those three victories were good enough to give them the title.
"Having experience with these sort of carnivals over the years, I've seen teams win carnivals by doing that. You've just got to create all those bonus points and you've got to make the nett run rate high because you don't know what is going to happen," Dean said.
"I'm really proud, there are some very, very good players in there.
"We didn't quite work out the 20 over games, we fiddled a bit with the game plans and we probably didn't need to in the end because we played those 50 over games so well, we should've left it alone."
