Saturday Sundries are all the extra highlights from the weekend’s lower grade cricket — from the top run-scorer to the best bowling figures and anything else of interest from the district grounds.
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Below are some of the highlights from Saturday’s action you may have missed.
News photographer Megan Fisher attended the B-grade contest between Old Students and Nagambie and captured plenty of action.
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Arch the back: Old Students' Brendan Crouch. Photo by Megan FisherImage 2 of 7
No run there: Nagambie's Brad Smith. Photo by Megan FisherImage 3 of 7
Talk it out: Nagambie's Dale Short and Brad Smith. Photo by Megan FisherImage 4 of 7
Steaming in: Old Students' Xavier Lewis. Photo by Megan FisherImage 5 of 7
Pass it around: Old Students' Gerald Sabri. Photo by Megan FisherImage 6 of 7
In the zone: Old Students wicket-keeper Luca Mamone. Photo by Megan FisherImage 7 of 7
Crunch: Nagambie's Brad Smith. Photo by Megan FisherGuppy is no fish out of water
Travis Guppy is in a rich vein of form.
The Karramomus C-grade captain recorded his second century in three weeks in his side’s 126-run victory over Central Park-St Brendan’s.
Guppy crunched 108 runs from 107 deliveries in a special knock that consisted of 15 boundaries and one six.
The Bloods skipper went one better than his 107-run effort in round 16.
From six C-grade innings the dominant batter is averaging 50.2 with the bat.
Lakers book final ticket
Nagambie’s A-grade outfit may have missed out on booking a finals appearance, but the club’s B-grade unit didn’t suffer the same fate.
In a tense and nervous round 14 encounter against Old Students, a side that was hunting sixth spot, Nagambie was able to prevail by 33 runs which rubber-stamped a date in finals action.
Nagambie’s top-order starred with the bat and reached the half-century mark, with Dale Short the standout with 69 off 82 deliveries.
Brad Smith and Blair Taylor-Lloyd chipped in with 59 and 50 not out respectively as Nagambie reached 2-232.
The Lakers’ James Brook was phenomenal with ball in hand and notched 5-30.
Long day in the field
It’s not often you see a scoreboard display a side bowled out for less than 20 runs, but that’s exactly what happened in a D-grade contest on Saturday.
Pine Lodge wreaked havoc on a depleted Shepparton United at Kialla West and dismissed the away side for a jaw-dropping 18 runs.
Braydon Kearns walked away with envious figures of 8-9 as the Lodgers rolled through their opponents inside nine overs.
United finished 288 runs short of Pine Lodge’s target of 8-306.
Close, but no cigar
Three Cricket Shepparton stalwarts came agonisingly close to raising the bat on Saturday.
In B-grade, Tatura legend Peter Watt made 87 in his side’s narrow two-wicket loss, while Kyabram’s Glenn Hart made 86.
Yet those two don’t come close to how cruel life got for David Marsters.
The Murchison talent was dismissed two runs shy of what would have been his third century for the club.