Kingower’s first decider in four years

KINGOWER has earned the right to meet Arnold in this weekend’s Upper Loddon Junior cricket grand final.

The game will be played at Bridgewater with Arnold aiming for back to back flags while Kingower will be featuring in a grand final for the first time in four seasons after defeating Bridgewater last weekend.

Kingower batted first after winning the toss on Saturday and hit up a total of five for 235.

The innings was book ended by the Murphy brothers, Tyler and Riley who matched each other’s score of 51 retired.

First up was Tyler early in the innings with Jackson Luckman lending support scoring 28 and later Riley with the help of Ryder Smith and Morgan Lonza taking Kingower to their final total.

The Bridgewater bowlers stuck to their task with Lewis Lonsdale

By MICHAEL ROSE

the most successful with three wickets. Nate Harrison, after an errant first over tightened up and bowled a handy spell picking up a wicket with Daisy Stringer the other wicket taker.

Sunday saw Bridgewater commence its big chase however it was a bad start losing their first four wickets for just 16 runs.

Shayla Lister and Harrison set about repairing the damage and occupied the crease for some 15 overs, sharing a 33-run partnership.

Harrison scored the bulk of these runs before being dismissed for a top score of 21.

Xavier Power also batted well down the order to score a career high score of 15 and help post a final total of 96, Bridgewater’s best score of the season.

Kingower’s bowling was led by

Ryder Smith who claimed three wickets, while Isaac JohnsonMcCloud, Luckman and Riley Leach each took two. Luckman enjoyed a good day in the field collecting three catches while Tyler Murphy was the other wicket taker bowling four overs without conceding a run.

L. Lonsdale b T. Murphy 1

B. Smyth c J. Luckman b I. Johnson-McCloud 4

D. Stringer c M. Lonza b I. Johnson-McCloud 2

H. Daldy b J. Luckman 7

S. Lister b R. Smith 6

N. Harrison c T. Murphy b R. Smith 21

N. wickham b J. Luckman

H. Kilby c J. Luckman b R. Leach 1

X. Power c L. McCoy b R. Leach 15

I. Ferguson c J. Luckman b R. Smith 3

E. O’Toole not out 1

Extras 33

Total 96

Bowling T. Murphy 4-4-1-0, I. Johnson-Mc-

Cloud 3-0-2-9, J. Luckman 2-0-2-8, E. Mc-

Coy 1-0-0-4, R. Smith 10-2-3-16, M. Lonza z Play in the weekend’s twoday grand final will start at 9am Saturday.

4-0-0-14, R. Murphy 4-1-0-4, X. Wilson 5-20-8, R. Leach 6-0-2-20, C. Soulsby 2-0-0-9.

Immediately following the game on Sunday, the winning captain will be presented with the Miller Shield. Winners of bowling and batting awards will also receive their trophies.

KINGOWER’S Jackson Luckman (left) and Xander Wilson have taken out the association top player awards.

Luckman received 202 points in the player of the year, ahead of Campbell Hancock (Arnold) 177 and Kale Hewett (Arnold) 171. He also topped the batting with 162 from Hancock 132 and Evan McCoy (Kingower) 126.

Wilson won the bowling award with six wickets at 2.83 runs from Seth Hewett (Arnold) and Lewis Lonsdale (Bridgewater).

The awards are sponsored by Inglewood and District Community Bank.