Barooga won the toss, electing to bat and putting on 250.
Wickets were hard to come by for the Cats with Archie Mason and Harrison King both picking up two.
The Cats went in to bat and lost wickets constantly.
Jonty King (19) provided some fireworks at the end of the innings, as did Tom Isedale with his 17.
The Cats were bowled in the 90s.
The Finley Bakery and Patisserie players’ player went to Jonty King.
This weekend is the first of the two-day games, so come down and watch the Cats go at it with Deni.
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In C-grade, Finley headed over to Cobram to complete the tough assignment of beating the Tigers on their home ground.
Cobram won the toss, electing to send Finley in to bat.
The Cats unfortunately struggled to really get going, only managing to make 79 from 23 overs.
The best with the bat were Cameron Arnold (14) and Callum Campbell (10).
With Finley having a small total on the board, they knew it was going to be tough to win from here.
But they made Cobram work hard for every run.
Unfortunately Cobram chased it down in 24 overs.
Jackson Tooke (1/10) and Alister wells (1/7) were the pick of the bowlers.
The Finley Bakery and Patisserie players’ player went to Cam Arnold.
With Finley now having the bye this weekend, they head into the Christmas break with a 5-2 record and will look to come back after the break firing at all cylinders to finish the season strong.
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On Thursday night, the under-17 Cats travelled back to Nathalia to finish off the two day game from the previous week.
Nathalia resumed their innings on 2/33 at the start of the day, with the Cats aiming to continue on with the strong showing of bowling.
Nathalia came out strong from ball one, aiming to post as many runs as possible before sending the Cats back into bat and take some extra points by the end of the day.
There were a few solid performances with the ball amongst Nathalia’s strong batting innings.
Logan Eldridge took 3/11 off three overs, Sam Hurston took 2/5 off half an over and there were solid spells from Lachlan Whelan, Nathan Brown and Jackson Tooke.
After posting 121 in 28 overs, Nathalia decided to send the Cats back in.
The opening batters of Nathan Brown and Dan Eldridge came out to face the strong opening bowlers of Nathalia, with Nathan not lasting long in his innings.
Dan batted extremely well throughout his innings, finishing on 35 not out at the end of the day’s play with strong contributions around him from Jonty King, Lachlan Whelan and Harvey Sneddon.
Nathalia came out the victors at the end of the match.