By Casey O'Connor
The weather has played havoc with the start of the two day fixture competition in Stanthorpe. Day one of the first round of games was abandoned due to the conditions. The round five fixture reduced to one day’s play last Saturday. South’s played Valleys on Sheehan Oval and Wanderers and RSL played at CF White Oval.
Valleys certainly had the tails up after their 20/20 win on Friday night and were keen to bat first when they won the toss. An unbeaten innings of 134 by Valley’s Chris Perry was definitely the highlight of the game. Perry came to the wicket following the dismissal of David Marino and the score at 2/4. Perry showed his intentions from the first couple of deliveries he faced. The first ball off the bowling of Danny Folkers he put into the fence. The next over the fence. Folkers had however dismissed both Valleys openers cheaply.
The score moved to 53 before Perry’s batting partner Isaak Wallis was dismissed by Jordan Lanza for five. Jye Wallis failed to trouble the scorer and was out for a duck only a few balls later. As wickets fell around Perry continued looked solid as runs kept coming for him.
At 6/105 in the 31sy over Perry was joined by his captain at the crease and the pair, mindful that this was a restricted overs game moved the score along to 167 before Anderson was bowled by Dave Burgess for34.
Perry dominated the back end of the innings and valleys declared with the score at 9/214 in the 52nd over.
South’s bowlers failed to contain Perry but Liam Lanza, Danny Folkers and David Burgess each took two wickets. Others to take wickets were Jordan Lanza, Lachie Pill and Noah Mackenzie.
Much like Valley’s innings there was one standout performance in South’s run chase. Jordan Lanza hit 77 off 77 deliveries before Perry and Wallis combined to dismiss the South’s captain. At stumps Souths were 5/165. As teams adjust to the new format, there were some solid performances in the South’s middle order from Ben Staley (18), Dave Burgess (25no) Danny Folkers (14) and Liam Lanza (no 12).
In the drawn game both teams came away from the game with two points.
