Sport
10 December, 2020
Goats rediscover groove
AN IMPROVED performance last Saturday has breathed life back into Terang’s South West Cricket season.
AN IMPROVED performance last Saturday has breathed life back into Terang’s South West Cricket season.
The Goats defeated Camperdown by 125 runs on the back of strong performances from Tommy Moloney (94), Charlie Scanlon (35) Tyson Hay (3/27) and skipper Sam Munro (4/18).
Munro said his side was pleased to return to the winners’ list after suffering big defeats to Mortlake and Bookaar recently.
“We’ve struggled in the games on hard wicket so it was good to be back in familiar territory,” he said.
“Over the past couple of weeks the team has really started to gel with our collective buy-in from everyone and we’re starting to make improvements on the field.
“Some boys are starting to make runs while it was good to have a tight bowling partnership between Tys and I up the top.”
Munro said his side needed the victory to remain within sight of the top four, but now needed to find consistency between performances.
He said the Goats had too much difference between its winning and losing efforts and required a better balance between the two if it wished to play finals.
“We’re kind of ruing our missed opportunity against Noorat a little bit,” Munro said.
“That was a one wicket loss but every other time we’ve lost we’ve been belted although when we’ve won, we’ve won big too.
“It’s a bit annoying in that way, but if we want to make finals we need to be consistent and keep putting pressure on the teamsabove us.
“It shows on our day that we are capable but it also shows that when we haven’t been on, we’ve been well off. We’re looking for consistency each week.”
Terang is now set to host Pomborneit for the second time this season.
The Goats knocked over the Bulls by seven wickets in round two, but Munro is expecting the reigning premier to prove a different challenge this time in.
“They had some of their walk-up starters missing in the first game so they’re going to be a lot harder to beat,” he said.
“They would have taken a few notes on the way they played and the way we played from that game but it’ll be a different Pombo we play against this week.
“We’ll certainly take a lot of confidence out of knowing we beat the reigning premiers the first time.
“But we’re also wary we need to put in another big performance or we could be looking at being three and five which puts us well behind the eight ball in terms of finals.”
Meanwhile, Noorat’s match with Pomborneit was washed out last weekend with the match evenly poised.
The Bulls batted first and posted 6/210 from its 50 overs after being precariously placed at 6/117.
In reply, Noorat was 1/30 off 9.5 overs when play was abandoned due to rain.
Daniel Kenna (3/29) was the pick of the bowlers while Dave Conheady was 18 not out when play was stopped.
Despite missing the opportunity to claim full points, the Steamrollers moved to the top of the ladder and is now six points clear of Mortlake.
They take on fourth placed Bookaar this weekend, while Mortlake hosts Heytesbury Rebels at D.C. Farran Oval.