Teams cannot win DJ Barry Cup matches outright without bowlers capable of taking 20 wickets.
Horouta achieved that, through the new ball pairing of Shubham Raihan (two wickets for nine runs off five overs, including three maiden overs) and Billy Morse (3-36 off 10.2 overs, two maidens), and Bruno Judd (3-11 off six, one maiden).
"It was good to get competition points on the board and the overall win,” a modest Situ said.
Te Waka No.11 Billy Morse (3 not out) tucked a leg glance fine off Fearnley from the last ball of the second over of the morning.
GBHS wicketkeeper Alex Shanks dived to his left, rolled, gathered the ball and ran out Horouta No.10 Adam Situ (1), the non-striker.
That ended Horouta’s first innings at 144 in 51 overs. Opener Stanley Blake's 21 and first-drop Gautam Sareen's 53 were at the heart of their efforts as they took a 68-run first innings lead.
A Boys' High team wanting to improve on their first-innings 76 from Day 1 had a tough start.
Raihan and Morse sent down maidens to Fearnley and Malsha Mahabalage before Raihan trapped Fearnley leg before wicket in the third over.
First-drop Shanks continued his good recent batting form with 57 off 90 balls and left-hander Markus Gray made 31 in 44 from No.7.
Left-hander Kavidu Withanage (13), was the only other GBHS batsman to score in double-figures as they posted 110.
Raihan, Morse and Judd took 10 wickets in 35.2 overs to set up outright victory.
Horouta lost Stanley Blake for a second-ball duck to David Gray (1-14 off six), standing in as captain in the absence of Bekko Page and Jarrod Ormison.
Fearnley (1-15 off 3.2 overs) had Sareen (14) caught by first 11 debutant Robbie Newlands, 14 in the covers to reduce the Waka to 36-2, but they reached their target in 11.2 overs.
Bollywood High School Old Boys' captain Dave Castle and mercurial talent Scott Tallott were the stars of the batting show of the season on Saturday.
On Reserve No.2, Bollywood High School Old Boys skipper Dave Castle had declared their first innings against Coastal Concrete Old Boys Rugby closed at 245-9 on Day 1.
HSOB took first innings points early on Day 2 by dismissing OBR for 127, and then put up a two-man show in their second knock.
HSOB vice-captain Tallott, who made 34 at No.3 on Day 1, struck four sixes and 16 boundaries in a superlative knock of 116.
Castle, who made 58 at the top of the order in the first innings, came in at No.4 and hit a run-a-ball century — his first ton in Gisborne.
The pair came together in the eight over at the fall of left-hander Carl Shaw for 12.
Their stand of 235 was the biggest in local cricket to date this season, and the only one pairing two centurions.
Only Horouta opener Harmanpreet Singh — 105 in Round 3 of the Doleman Cup on November 11 last year — had "tonned up" in the Premier Grade this season before Saturday although Castle did make 91 versus Horouta on October 28 of last year.
Blue and Whites skipper Castle was ecstatic.
"It was brilliant to be at the other end during Scotty's innings. To witness his chanceless century first-hand was fantastic," said Castle.
"Of the OBR bowlers, Jimmy Holden was excellent — he had me fishing at his outswinger — and Hayden Keast bowled accurately, with pace and presented a great challenge.
“I was thrilled to get my first hundred in Gisborne — the result of a fair bit of hard work and a level of application I'd been able to unlock. To put on 235 together was brilliant, what we live for as batsmen — smashing tons with a mate."
When asked about his unbeaten 116 and his thought process during it, Tallott quoted former Mets baseball star William "Mookie" Wilson.
"When I'm in a slump, I comfort myself by saying if I believe in dinosaurs, then somewhere, they must be believing in me. And if they believe in me, then I can believe in me. Then I bust out."
Left-handers Te-Reimana Gray (33) and Sean Henry (20) put on 33 before bustling left-arm seamer Keegan Jooste (1-37, seven overs) had Gray caught by Castle three balls into the eighth over.
HSOB spearhead left-armer Jak Rowe took 2-45 from eight overs in his first spell, and finished with 2-54 off 12.
Tom Garrett, who hit a six and seven other boundaries in his 23 ball-knock of 42 in the first innings, zapped a six and five fours in 23 balls for 35.
His strike rates of 182 and 152 from No.5 were the highest of any score of consequence in the match, followed by Steve Lamb (48 not out) from No.7 in HSOBs' first turn at bat.
Promoted from No.8 to second-drop in OBR’s second innings, Hayden Keast finished 28 not out.
Fourth seamer Anthony Boyder (1-18, off 4.2 overs) and off-spinner Castle (1-16 off two) also took wickets for HSOB but Keast and Karan Solanki (8 no) stopped the slide.
And the match ended with OBR at 155-5 in 32.2 overs and trailing by 216 runs.
Castle and his OBR opposite Matt Cook called the match a draw at 5.46pm, with HSOB taking first innings points.
After Round 1 of the DJ Barry Cup two-day Premier Grade Championship, Horouta have 13.94 competition points, HSOB 11.95 points, OBR 6.52 points and GBHS 3.26 points.
