November 28, 2013
It was a big weekend of cricket in the South Burnett with a round of the Goodchild Shield being played as well as the first of the season’s two-day A Grade matches.
Bundaberg proved too strong for South Burnett, who were missing some of their top players, in the Goodchild Shield match played at Lyle Vidler Oval on Sunday.
Bundaberg were dismissed in the 50th over for 238. Top scorers were Luke Owen (71), Mitch Waters (40) and Chris Duff (20).
Graeme Brown (2/39), Andrew Askin (2/46) and Brendan Weil (2/28) shared the bowling honours for the home side.
In reply, South Burnett were all out for 118.
Andrew Askin top-scored with 27, while Freddy Davies (21) and Tony Dugdell (21) both made starts.
Mitch Waters was the pick of the Bundaberg bowlers, taking 4/31 off 10 overs.
Dean Krebs was also on target, with 3/14 off eight overs.
Bundaberg won by 120 runs.
This is the South Burnett’s second loss in the competition, after going down to Fraser Coast on October 27.
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In the A Grade match played at Lyle Vidler Oval on Saturday, Kingaroy RSL made short work of Nanango, ensuring they would not have to back up again this weekend for Day 2.
Kingaroy bowled out Nanango in both innings.
Anthony Eden and Tony Dugdell tore through the Nanango batsmen. If the first innings, Eden finished with 3/6 off 3.1 overs and Dugdell 4/20 off 11 overs.
The Scorpions – who played with 10 men – were all out for 79.
Kingaroy then went in to bat and, with one eye on the clock, declared at 9/170 in the 31st over.
Col Huxtable top scored with 56 n/o and Eden made 38.
Dean Olzard was the best of the Nanango bowlers, taking 5/48 off 15 overs. Michael “Freddy” Davies toiled to take 3/58 off nine overs.
Sent back in, Nanango made 81 runs the second time around and were bowled out in the 17th over.
Kingaroy RSL won by an innings and 10 runs.
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In the second two-dayer, played at Murgon, Warriors got the upper hand against Crusaders.
At the close of their first innings, Warriors were all out for 271, with Dan O’Connor top-scoring with 80.
The match will continue this Saturday at Murgon Sportsground.
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B Grade teams had a bye but will be back in action this weekend with Kumbia facing Kingaroy RSL, Barambah taking on Warriors and Colts in a local derby against Diggers.
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Kingaroy RSL will play Wondai in the the final of the T20 competition from 6:00pm on Friday (December 6) at Lyle Vidler Oval in Kingaroy.
[UPDATED with correction]
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