All-round individual performances help Waddikee/Warramboo and Western Districts to wins
An inspired showing from Lubin Stringer helped Waddikee/Warramboo to a 48-run triumph against Kyancutta in A grade Le Hunte cricket on Saturday.
The opener fell just short of a half-century as the WaddiBoos posted 9/203 and then took five wickets to help bowl the hosts out for 155.
Stringer and Chandler May progressed to 38 to open the day before May was caught for 12, while Asher Sampson and Clint Winter made little impact.
Stringer was finally dismissed for 49 to take the score to 4/93, but after the wicket of Jared Sampson for one run it was time for Jake Bruce and Corey Waters to take command.
The pair put on 82 runs for the sixth wicket to take Waddikee/Warramboo to 6/188 when Bruce was caught for an innings-best of 61.
Waters was at the non-strikers' end as he saw the visitors eventually lose 4/10, before closing on 32 not out.
Ty McKenna removed both Stringer and Bruce on his way to 6/31, while Tasman Fitzgerald added 3/30.
Kyancutta came into the match on the back of three successive losses and needed a good start to be in with a chance of halting the downturn.
Opening duo Jordan Stutley and Hamish May provided as they reached 55 before the latter was caught for 17.
McKenna and Stutley then added a 54-run partnership which came to an end when McKenna was caught for a quickfire 25.
The wicket of Stutley for 58 took the score to 3/118 started a collapse as Stringer ran through the middle order.
It was one of seven wickets that Kyancutta lost for only 16 runs to take the match out of the hosts' grasp, with Damien Mullan watching on as he made an unbeaten 15.
Stringer finished with 5/33, while Kane Murphy took 3/34.
Elsewhere, Western Districts defeated Wudinna by 43 runs at Poochera.
Julian Gosling was terrific with the bat and ball as Districts' made 1/174 and then bowled Wudinna out for 131.
Gosling and Leigh Scholz put Wudinna to the sword with an 83-run opening partnership.
Scholz was the only wicket to fall - for 37 runs off the bowling of Steve Westlake - but 43 not out from Angus Gunn helped Districts to a commanding position.
He and Gosling combined for a partnership of 91, with the opener finishing on 81 not out.
Westlake then gave Wudinna a foundation with the bat as he opened with 30 runs after losing Darryl Marshall for just five.
The wicket of Westlake took the visitors to 2/47, but Viv O'Brien and Scott Allen kept the chase on track with a 74-run stand.
Allen was trapped leg before wicket for 28 to start a match-ending collapse as Wudinna lost its last eight wickets for only 10 runs.
O'Brien top-scored with 52 for Wudinna, while Gosling ripped through the order to take 6/12.