It was a quiet weekend on the district’s cricket pitches after significant rain late in the week made several pitches unplayable.

Both Brim-Kellalac-Sheep Hills matches were scheduled on turf pitches, and they had to be abandoned, and the Blackheath-Dimboola C grade team had the bye.

The West Wimmera Warriors teams did get to play but didn’t have a great day.

Laharum 117 (N Alexander 4/9, B Alexander 4/28) defeated West Wimmera Warriors 42 (L Smith 13*)

In the A grade played at Laharum, the visitors were asked to field first, and restricted their hosts to a modest 117 off 42.1 overs. Nathan Alexander led the bowling with for wickets for nine runs off 7.1 overs, and Brad Alexander also took four wickets, with Xavier Bone and Luke Smith taking one each.

Their run chase did not start well, with four wickets falling before the team total had reached double figures, and nine batters were back in the pavilion with the total on twenty-five.

A seventeen-run last-wicket partnership was the biggest for the innings, but it was too little too late, and the inning ended well short of the target. Luke Smith dominated the batting to finish not out on 13.

Homers 7/127 (Riley Gebert 3/17, A Dickinson 2/13) defeated West Wimmera Warriors 112 (A Dickinson 38, G Treverton 37, W Wheaton 18)

On Davis Park, the local C grade team played out a much closer contest with Homers.

The Horsham team chose to bat first, and made a confident 127 for the loss of seven wickets in their 4 overs. Riely Gebert was the best of the Warriors’ bowlers, taking three wickets for seventeen runs from six overs, and Ash Dickinson chipped in with two late wickets.

Pictured – Umpire, Dimboola’s Charles Rees, keeps an eye on proceedings as West Wimmera Warriors’ Glen Treverton sends down another delivery.

In the run-chase, the Warriors stayed in touch with the target, with a 38 run second-wicket partnership between Glen Treverton (37) and Wallace Wheaton (18), but wickets fell regularly and although Dickinson (38) made a significant contribution after coming in at the fall of the fifth wicket, the team finished an agonising five runs short of their target.

In the A grade next Saturday, Brim-Kellalac-Sheep Hills will travel to Murtoa to take on Lubeck-Murtoa, and the Warriors will look for their first win when they play Colts on the turf pitch at Dudley Cornell Park.

With Blackheath-Dimboola withdrawing their team from the C grade division, the Warriors no longer have a bye this week but will also travel to Dudley Cornell Park in Horsham to play the Tigers on the synthetic pitch.

The B grade, the BKSH Eagles have the bye.

** The draw for the next round was correct as per the Horsham Cricket Association’s PlayHQ website at the time of publishing this article. **