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Tigers drop Cats to kick off new GCA T20 Cup

January 18, 2023 BY

Torquay Cricket Club captain Terry Hill directs traffic against Lara on Tuesday night. Photos: VINNIE VAN OORSCHOT

GCA2’s Torquay has defeated GCA1 side Lara last night (Tuesday, January 17) to headline the first week matches in the Geelong Cricket Association’s first T20 Cup.

Here is the full list of results across all 16 games:

Geelong City 2/132(cc) (T Taylor 83*, J Driver 30*; H Murrell 2/26) def Highton 6/131(cc) (G Willows 43, J Cook 22*, J Gillard 20; T O’Brien-Henderson 2/20, H Collins 2/22)

Murgheboluc 3/125 (M Grozdanovski 42*, J Grozdanovski 41*) def South Barwon 9/123(cc) (S Hutley 2/19, D Grozdanovski 2/20)

Leopold 116 (H Lewis 3/9, M Ford 2/18) def by St Peters 7/144(cc) (M Sorgiovanni 67, J Stokes 23*, M Ford 21; B Abhishek 2/19, J Speedie 2/23, H Burchett 2/44)

Bell Post Hill and 9/100 (M Slater 26; G Rhodes 3/17, J Norman 2/11, N Burke 2/34) def by Newtown & Chilwell 6/140(cc) (C Deary 51, G Rhodes 23; B Muir 2/27)

Teesdale 91 (N Caracella 2/10, J Bailey 2/11, C Port 2/18) def by St Josephs 4/93 (J Casey 20*)

Torquay 0/92 (A Russell 46*, B Henderson 37*) def Lara 6/91(cc) (A Smart 20, B Gillett 20*; T Dunn 3/13)

Little River 1/94 (N Pravin 41*, D Singh 33) def Newcomb & District 8/137(cc) (A Spengler 61, M Penman 26, C Egan 21; G Bartlett 2/22)

Torquay took out the convincing 10-wicket win on home turf at Spring Creek Reserve.

St Albans Breakwater 101 (A O’neil 25, J Spalding 21; L Vaughan 4/20, S Calder 2/17) def by Marshall 3/105 (S Grazotis 56*, L Cameron 22; J Patel 2/11)

North Geelong 9/114 (C Hangan 23, T Webster 20; B Sykes 3/23, D Foott 2/24) def Grovedale 7/113(cc) (M Mcneel 46*, S Coutts 20; A Mccann 3/9, T Webster 2/21)

Meredith 1/23 def by Bell Park 7/174(cc) (K Henry 48, S Lymer 34, J Spiller 32; D Measures 5/26, S Vaartjes 2/20)

Alexander Thomson 6/152(cc) (J Syddall 67*, B Forssman 30, B Harcombe 28; J Jervies 2/23, D Foran 2/27, B Harding 2/32) def Bannockburn 7/117(cc) (T Hay 46, J Cross 34; B Forssman 4/11, J Syddall 2/20)

North Shore 101 (J Beasley 42, C Macbryde 28; L Cornwell 3/4, A Close 2/6) def by Corio 134 (A Grace 53; Z Ireland 3/20, S Foran 3/22, B Schultz 2/14, Z Wills 2/22)

Thomson 6/98 (S Box 23*; S Kelly 3/19, P Hill 2/25) def Geelong West 8/97(cc) (S Ramgarhia 49; D Riches 2/14, G Dew 2/15, A Bliss 2/15)

The 92-run partnership between Torquay’s Ash Russell and Billy Henderson was all that was needed to eliminate Lara.

Modewarre 9/78 (J O’Hanlon 26; J Lacey 3/22) def by East Belmont 7/123(cc) (C Walter 23, L Inglis 21; J O’Hanlon 3/26)

Waurn Ponds-Deakin 1/78 (P Visser 52*; M Perera 24/0, A Percy 19/0, R Chandran 14/0, M Gorman 8/0) def Manifold Heights 3/123(cc) (B Strachan 59, M Perera 33, M Gorman 24*; L Bartlett 2/13)

Lethbridge 122 (H Spiller 38; G Stripling 4/12, M Vicary 3/46) def by Guild-St Marys 7/147(cc) (K Pathan 51, T Lyons 27, J Larkins 24)

Week 2, featuring the 16 remaining teams, recommences on January 31. Fixtures will be released shortly.

Note: Bold denotes winning team.