March 28, 2025
Wooroolin Warriors were crowned the 2024-25 South Burnett One-Day champions after a nail-biting Grand Final win over Nanango last Saturday.
It marked the end of a testing season for local cricket clubs, which endured a fair share of ups and downs along the way as well as the tragic death in February of much-loved cricket stalwart Marissa Carney.
Wondai Wolves finished on top of the Senior One Day ladder after points readjustments, but were knocked out in the semi-finals.
Warriors actually finished third behind Nanango Scorpions, and had to defeat Wondai to earn Saturday’s Grand Final spot.
Scorpions hosted Saturday’s match at the Alan Downie Sports Fields in Nanango.
Wooroolin won the toss and elected to bat.
They began well with opener John McDonald dominating the Nanango attack by hitting 66 runs off 55 balls, including five sixes.
His fellow opener, James Searle scored more slowly but still made what turned out to be a respectable 16 runs.
Unfortunately, no one else made it into double figures.
Jayden Prendergast finished with the best bowling figures for Nanango, taking 4/32 off his eight overs.
After McDonald was finally caught out off a Thomas Town ball, the last four Warriors’ wickets fell for just 17 runs.
Wooroolin were all out for 124 in the 28th over, and would not have been feeling confident at the break.
But Scorpions’ got off to a bad start when opener Jay Steinhardt was out for a duck, bowled by John-Paul Schultz.
A few balls later, Nicholas Scherger suffered the same fate, and Nanango were 2/2.
Schultz proved deadly, taking 4/19 off his 5.1 overs – including the three early order wickets – plus a catch and a runout.
Thomas Town steadied the ship coming in at number four and worked hard to finish 65 not out off 65 balls.
Sadly for Nanango fans, Town ran out of partners as Noah Birch (2/11 off three overs) and Patrick Figg (3/22 off three) finished off the Scorpions’ batting line-up.
Scorpions were all out for 117 in the 26th over, falling painfully short of the win.
- External link: 2025 Cricket Grand Final Results
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South Burnett Cricket Association Trophies
End-of-season South Burnett Cricket Association awards and trophies were announced on Saturday at the end of the Grand Final:
1. Batting Aggregate – Jayden Prendergast – 320 runs
2. Batting Average – Ashley Louis – 56.6
3. Bowling Aggregate (tied) – Josie Black & Isaac Bice – 20 Wickets
4. Bowling Average – Theodore Kelly – 11.29
5. Player of the Year – Lachlan Cullen
SBCA Junior Representative Awards
- Under 12s Player of the Year – Mitchell Stretton
- Under 14s Player of the Year – Darcy Harmsworth
- Under 16s Player of the Year – Jayden Prendergast
- Under 12s Players’ Player – Mitchell Stretton
- Under 14s Players’ Player – Joseph Carney
- Under 16s Players’ Player – Jayden Prendergast
- Under 12s Coach’s Award – Deegan Johannessen
- Under 14s Coach’s Award – Jamie Sherwell
- SBCA Shane Cullen Memorial Spirit of the Game Award – Braxton Bartlett
- SBCA Goodchild Shield Player Of The Year – Nathan Roderick
- SBCA T20 Premiers – Wondai Wolves
- SBCA Umpires’ Player Award – Jackson Kerkow
- SBCA Umpires’ Team Award – Wondai Wolves
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