Doherty stars with bat

A ROLLICKING 65 by all-rounder Josh Doherty was the main catalyst to Greytown's 39-run win over Red Star in their Wairarapa Cricket Association Bidwell Cup senior inter-club cricker match at the Park Sportsground in Masterton on Saturday.
Red Star looked well on the way to what would have been an upset win when they took an 18-run first innings lead, reaching 113 in reply for Greytown's 95 thanks to some hard hitting from Jamie Governor.,whose 40 included one six and Nick Moorcock who struck three fours in his 20.
Greytown's second innings could hardly have started worse and they slumped from 2-2 to 13-5 before Doherty, who came in at number six, took over. Two of his first three scoring shots were fours and hs 65 included three sixes and six fours.
He was given handy support by lower order players Andy Ewington (17), Glen Jonas (16) and Ben Hodder (20 not out) and when the last wicket fell Greytown had got through to 139.
Jared Watt with 4-29 and Carwyn Caffell with 4-22 were the main wicket takers for Red Star and there was some lively bowling from left armer Keith Pullman who had 2-25 after seven overs before he had 20 runs, including two siuxes, taken off his eighth and last over.
Set 122 for the outright win Red Star's batting struggled against a powerful Greytown attack and they were all out for 83 with Daniel Stonely's 17
the top score.
Promising Ben Hodder completed a fine all-round effort for Greytown by takin 4-7 from just four overs while Shane Mellor finished with 2-19 and Glen Jonas 2-11.
Scoreboards:-
GREYTOWN
First Innings: 95
Second Innings
Childs c??b Watt 2
Ross c?.b Pullman 4
Tatham c?.b Watt 0
Mellor b Pullman 4
Osborne c?.b Watt 1
Doherty c b Caffell 65
Ewington c?..b Watt 17
Jonas c??b Caffell 16
Hodder not out 20
Spierling c?..b Caffell 3
James c?.b Caffell 6
Extras 2
Total 139
Watt 11-0-29-4, Pullman 8-2-45-2, Moorcock 8-0-41-0, Caffell 6-0-22-4.
RED STAR
First Innings: 113
Second Innings
Stonely c?.b Mellor 17
Tyacke b Jones 8
Governor c Childs b
Spierling 0
Roseingrave c Childs b
Mellor 12
Burling b Jones 16
Moorcock b James 1
Knight c?.b Hodder 5
Sigvertsen b Hodder 10
Pullman c?.b Hodder 1
Caffell c ChildsbHodder0
Watt not out 1
Extras 1
Total 83
Spierling 7-2-19-1, Mellor 8-2-19-2, Jonas 6-1-11-2, James 8-3-26-1, Hodder 4-0-7-4.
Wairarapa College all-rounder Seth Rance proved his value with the bat when he scored 70 to help his team to a
first innings with over the Academy XI.The latter made 198 and Wairarapa College reached 250-8 in reply with Rance 70, Butler 56 and Keane 58 the major contributors.
Lansdowne took first innings points over Rathkeale College in what was a high scoring match.
Rathkeale made 247 in their first innings and Lansdowne replied with 266-8, Wairarapa reps Sam Curtis (91) and Henry Cameron (95) leading the way.
Scoreboards for both these games were not available in time for publication. Teams are reminded that with new deadlines scorebooks now need to be at the Times-Age office by 10am Sunday mornings.
In women's cricket St Matthews Collegiate beat Wairarapa College by 21 runs with the highlight being the hattrick taken by St Matthews bowler Pip Lynch who finished with an impressive 5-14. St Matthews batted first and made 103 and then dismissed Wairarapa College for 82.
RATHKEALE WIN
Rathkeale College are through to the last 16 of the Gillette Cup national secondary schoolboys competition after their convincing 46-run win over defending champions Palmerston North Boys High.
Put in on a damp pitch at Rathkeale Oval the home side were in dire straits at 20-4 but a belligerent and courageous 69 from stocky opener Brock Price saw them recover to be all out for 170.Price received solid support from wicketkeeper Jesse Bailey (21) and young all-rounder Dean Van Deventer (24).
The Rathkeale attack quickly got on top of the PNBHS batting and they were dismissed for 124 in 46.1 overs Pacemen .Duncan Watts with 2-17, Jason Dondertman 3-20 and Doug Bracewell 1-18 all achieved fine figures as did spinners Andy Dodd 2-15 and Simon Clinton ?Butler 1-16.