Albury was cruising at 0-72 before Galvin struck, snaring Nick Morris, Tom Sole and Jerim Hayes.

“He turned the game,” Panthers’ coach Robbie Mackinlay said.

“I rate him very highly, in fact I think he’s as good an off-spinner as there is in the competition.”

Chasing 205, Albury needed a run-a-ball through the latter part of its innings, and when Nick Sheridan smashed Will Heriot for six in the penultimate over, the home side needed only 10 from the final over.

But Chris Galvin tied Albury’s lower order down in the four-run win.

“Nick (Sheridan) and Brad (Smith) were batting, but he bowled tightly and we only got a few twos and ones,” Albury’s Dave Tassell said.

The match was moved from Lavington’s temporary home at Scots School to Albury’s Billson Park.

And the Panthers had a flyer through Matt Sharp and Nathan Brown.

“They were about 65 from eight overs,” Tassell said.

“We dropped a few catches, but the biggest difference was the amount of extras, we gave away 41.”

The sundries joined Sharp as top-scorer, with Scottish quick Chris Sole taking 3-25 as a second-change bowler.

He then launched into the Panthers’ normally miserly attack.

“He monstered the ball, hitting the ball really clean from the start, he hit a four and a six from the first over he faced,” Tassell said.

“He hit one six which hit halfway up that big tree at the playground end, our president Cam Walker has a device which can measure that and we reckon it was at least 100 metres.”

Sole was the sixth wicket to fall, for 85, but a 47-run stand for the eighth-wicket between Sheridan and Scott Montgomery almost sealed the win.

Galvin finished with 4-30.

“Lavi bowled well, a lot tighter than us,” Tassell said.

Lavington’s win has lifted the club above Albury into third spot.

The Panthers could easily be undefeated though, falling to St Patrick’s by seven runs on the opening weekend of T20 matches, before losing 8-30 in another thriller against Albury.

“The thing that is holding us back is we don’t have players making big scores,” Mackinlay said.

“Matt Sharp made 41, while Nathan Brown and Sam Harris got in the 30s.

“We need those blokes to make an 80 or a 100.

“You look at the other sides. Matt Armstrong is making hundreds for Tallangatta, that’s what we need.

“The bowling and fielding have been really good, we just need someone to kick on with the bat.”

Sharp boasts the Panthers’ highest score of 83.

Lavington now faces premier Belvoir, which sits fifth.