Wayback's fielding again was highlighted when Liam McDonald had Shore run out for nine runs.

Zac Melzner joined Hains and after hitting a boundary added one more run before being caught by Tom Szumski off Karatzovalis and the Reds were 3/39 at the end of the eighth over.

Requiring 69 off 72 balls the match was evenly poised and Wayback, with another smart run out by Zac Simpson, had Stephen Rees taking the long walk for one run.

Wayback were on top with Harry Ford caught by Tom Szumski, giving Karatzovalis his second wicket.

Red, at 5/55 in the 11th over, needed a strong partnership and with Matt Downey joining Alex Laube, both batsmen steered their team to within sight of the target.

Both batsmen retired on 20 - Laube first and Orbons, batting at number nine, added 12 valuable runs that saw Red pass the target of 107 in the 18th over to finish with 123 runs.

Peter Gornal scored one run and Tylor Smith was not out without scoring.

Game two

Charlton 7/169 def SES 6/92

Max Bail, after opening the innings and retiring on 21, again batted when all other batsman were out, and joined number 11 batsman Zac Ianello with two overs to add another 29 runs to his previous 21, including four sixes and one boundary, to finish on 50 not out with Zac Ianello on two not to set a target of 169.

An innings of extraordinary power by Bail again emphasised the vast array of talent in our players of the future.

Max Bail, Cameron Tabe and Brad Briggs all retired and this proved to be a hard night out for SES.

With Charlton's first three batsmen retiring, Kostya Sheehy made 10 runs before he became SES's first victim, run out for 10, to have Charlton 1/84 runs in the 11th over.

Kirk Mortimer made eight before being caught by C. Fletcher off the bowling of W. Shelton, and with Kris McGuiness (18) caught by Bernard Piennar off the bowling of Ryan Kennedy and R. Popovic (14) caught by Jayce Calverley off C. Fletcher for 14, Charlton had scored 135 runs by the 18th over.

Re-enter Max Bail and the runs flowed with 26 taken off the last over.

SES required a run rate of 8.45, a big ask even for A grade, and it proved to be just that for SES.

All of Charlton's bowlers, apart from 32 wides, were hard to get away with the most expensive being Kris McGuiness and Dillan Wilson, allowing only 13 runs each off their two overs, which highlights the other eight bowlers, with Bail taking 1/6 off two overs and Sheehy taking 1/5.

SES's openers Scott McDonald (5) and Ryan Kennedy (2) were both out early and SES were 2/13 after three overs.

Boyd Bishop was SES's stand out making 21 runs with good stroke play.

Riley Mislov was caught by Sheehy off Ianello for two and then Aiden Martin was looking in good shape until he was bowled by Blake Ryan for 16.

SES's struggle to survive was apparent when they had five overs left requiring 110 runs with five wickets in hand.

They did survive the 20 overs with Jayce Calverley making seven runs and Bernard Piennar not out one and Nick Jones not out three.

Game three

Tasman White 9/156 def Tod River 5/84

Tasman White opening batsman David Murray retired on 21 runs and James Lakin, after the compulsory retirement on 20, was called on to bat again to add 22 runs off the last two overs and help set a formidable target of 156 for Tod River to chase.

Tod River took their first wicket in the sixth over when Nick Wright was bowled by Zac Jolley to be 1/47.

Harry Sawley was next in and became Tasman's third player to retire on 21 before Nick Campbell was dismissed for six runs when caught by Jayden Montgomerie off the bowling of Matt Casterly.

Daniel Prout (9) gave Zac Jolley his second wicket, caught by Levi Proude.

Coen Taylor, who looked good with a boundary, was out for eight and at 3/81 Tod River needed to make a breakthrough but Tasman again got on top and took the score to 106 through Jack Humphries (10).

The breakthrough was in place when Ramsey struck again to have Angus Bell caught again by Dennis for no score, and with Aiden Baker bowled by Joseph Horgan for two runs, Tasman were 6/122 in the 17th over.

This saw retired batsman David Murray return to the crease before he was bowled by Ramsey without adding to his score.

James Lakin came back in after retiring to take to the bowling apart and added a quick 22 runs before being run out.

Harry Sawley, the third retired batsman, added another three runs to be not out 24 and Tyler Baker showed he looks to be more than a tail end batsman with 18 not out.

Tasman White had set Tod River a run rate of 7.8 runs per over to win.

The run chase by Tod River really never got started against a good line and length bowling attack by Tasman White.

Jed Casterley was judged LBW off the bowling of Jack Humphries for three runs on the first ball of the second over.

Levi Proude became the anchor man and saw Mitchell Dennis caught by Sawley off the bowling of Daniel Prout on the last ball of his second over for four runs, followed by a great effort from Angus Bell to have Keenan Ramsey run out for three runs.

At 3/19 in the fifth over with Proude looking the goods, a lengthy partnership was required.

Proude and Joel Turner took the score to 53 before Joel Turner was caught by Coen Taylor for a well compiled 11 runs with the score at 53 in the 14th over.

With six overs to go and 104 needed to win off 36 balls the end was obvious.

To Tod River's credit Joseph Horgan (8 not out) and Buster Keeley (4 not out) batted out the overs, and that is the golden rule in cricket when facing imminent defeat.

Awards (from January 30)

Great Northern Award

Good scores were a feature of last Saturday.

Scott Forrest was 39 not out against SES and Daniel Prout made a solid 55 for Tasman White.

The award this week goes to James Lakin, who remained 94 not out for Tasman White, hitting three sixes and six fours, in a great batting display, well dones James.

Coles team player award

Sam Beare, Lincoln South, took three wickets for 27 against the strong Tasman White.

Scott Forrest took 4/10 for Tasman Red but with the very good figures of 4/12 Zac Jolly from Tod River wins the award this week. Well done Zac.