Leitchville-Gunbower’s Liam Keath showed his quality with bat and ball against Echuca South.
To say Leitchville-Gunbower duo Liam Keath and Scott Lucas were unlucky to be on losing sides last Saturday would be an understatement.
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Let’s start with Keath, who starred with bat and ball against Echuca South.
First he ripped through the Swans for 4-17 figures off just nine overs.
“Liam bowled an excellent line and length,” club president, and dad, Jason Keath said.
“He is disciplined with it and took a few great wickets.
“One was with an in-swinging yorker, and he clean bowled one of their better batters.”
That was South captain Rathika Rajakumara.
He top-scored in the innings with 40 before being bamboozled by Keath at the start of the 36th over — four balls later Darcy Finn was gone in the same fashion.
Keath’s command over the pitch with the ball set his side up with the bat.
They needed to chase down only 146.
But fell short, despite more meaningful movements being made by Keath.
Liam launched into an all-round advertisement of his game — patiently protecting his wicket on the way to 39.
“It was a pretty disciplined batting performance from him,” Jason said.
“He did well but just wasn't quite able to go on with it for a bigger score.”
Keath’s clubmate Lucas certainly went on with it in the third XI competition.
In fact, he was smashing the leather off almost every ball Kyabram threw his way.
And they couldn’t catch him out either.
Lucas casually cruised to 119 not out, accumulating the sizeable score off 17 fours and a 92.96 strike rate.
Scott Lucas was in a hurry to score runs against Kyabram.
So he was responsible for just under 70 per cent of the side’s runs (it totalled 171).
And like Keath, by the end of day’s play Lucas would’ve wondered what else he could’ve done.
Because Leitchville also lost this one, Ky completing the chase with nine balls and six wickets spare.
Lucas’ legion was undefeated before this result, so they won’t be losing sleep over it.
In fact, for their star batsman it’s quite the opposite.
And there’s a pretty obvious reason why.
“When he made the century, his son Jonty was out there batting alongside him,” Jason said.
“So Scott will probably look back at it in 10 or 20 years and think, ‘That was a pretty good day’.”
The Lucas duo will hope to share in a win this Saturday when South travel to Leitchville.
Meanwhile, Keath’s contingent will be at Northern Oval, taking on undefeated league-leader Kyabram.
It’s actually a reverse of whom the sides faced last weekend.
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