Hibo Gold first grade side defeated Coolavin Young Guns outright in the two day match just completed. The win lifts Hibo Gold into second place on the ladder moving past Young Guns.
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In the first innings Young Guns won the toss and elected to bat in very hot conditions at Wexted Oval the choice paid early dividends with Jack Goodwin and Cohen Stevenson batting solidly enough to take the Young Guns to 1/20 when Mik Webber bowled Stevenson for 6. Luke Davis and Goodwin continued to build the Young Guns innings to 2/39 when Brad Mitchell trapped Davis LBW for 7. Hibo continued to take wickets steadily with Goodwin remaining solid at the crease until Marcus bowled him for a very solid knock of 39 in a real openers innings. This left Young Guns at 5/62 but Young Guns skipper Jake Backhouse had another game plan and took the fight to the Hibo bowlers hitting two sixes and six fours before Brad Smith had him, caught by Dale Cummins for 50. Backhouse and Tom Condylios (10) had lifted Young Guns fortunes to 8/121 Smith mopped up the innings to leave Young Guns all out for 122.
Bowling for Hibo saw Smith return 4/28 off 12 overs, Webber 2/34 off 13 overs Mitchell 2/25 and James 1/31.
Young Guns struck early in Hibo’s innings when Jack Goodwin bowled Smith for 2 and Hibo 1/6, which became 2/16. Goodwin removed Webber for 6. Hibo slumped to 4/20 to the persistent Young Guns attack until Brad Webster steadied the ship but was forced to retire hurt on 16. Mitchell and keeper Nathan Stewart then became involved in a solid partnership to see Hibo to stumps on day one at 4/93 and the match in the balance.
Day two started well for Young Guns, when Backhouse sent Mitchell for 41 and Goodwin grabbed Stewart’s for 16 and Hibo had now lost two wickets for the addition of only three runs to be 6/96. Ryan Day and Sam Cosgrove took the score to 7/119 but Day was dismissed for 13, which included two big sixes he was bowled by Backhouse.
Cosgrove shouldered the burden of getting Hibo over the line for the first innings lead. He was eventually out bowled by Stevenson for 37 and Hibo was all out for 153, a handy 31 run lead. Jack Goodwin was the stand out bowler for Young Guns with 5/49 off 18 overs, supported by Ben Gearing with 2/18 off 7 and Backhouse 2/20 off 7.
Young Guns second innings became hard work. They lost wickets steadily to the persistent pace attack of Webber and Smith to be all out for 53.
Webber took 5/30 off 9 overs and Smith, 4/22 off 8
This left Hibo requiring 22 runs for the outright win. This was achieved with the loss of two wickets giving Hibo Gold an eight wicket win.
