Yackandandah is likely to host a final after making light work of a tricky chase against Baranduda.
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Chasing the visitors’ 110, Yackandandah resumed on 5-48, but a 48-run stand between Ben Glass (40) and Peter Evans (27) for the seventh wicket resulted in a comfortable four-wicket win.
“It was a good win, but I was pretty confident going in, knowing the batsmen we had to come,” captain Andrew Lockett said.
“The conditions probably suited bowling at the end of last week, with it raining, so it probably made it pretty hard, the score looked worse than what it actually was.”
Glass equalled his second-highest score of the season.
“He batted really well, he’s an aggressive batsman who likes to hit the ball,” Lockett said.
“When you’re under pressure and someone scores runs at a decent rate, that takes the pressure off and he always does that when he makes his runs pretty quickly.”
In just his fourth game of the season, Evans posted his top score.
“They both scored at a quick rate and basically took the game away from them in the end, which took the nerves away a bit,” Lockett said.
Third-placed Yackandandah carried a 2.06-point advantage over Baranduda into the game and while it faces a difficult last-round game against Lavington, the club should have enough in reserve to grab the home final.
Baranduda hosts Mount Beauty.
Seventh-placed Mount Beauty started the penultimate round 1.61 points behind Corowa, but didn’t do itself any favours falling to ninth-placed Eskdale in an upset.
Defending 143, the Power found the visitors’ middle-order too consistent.
Eskdale fell to 5-47, but a 79-run stand between Jye Hodgkin (40) and Jesse Kennett (37) proved crucial.
Nick Iaria finished with 4-57.
Dederang just edged out Howlong in a thriller.
Howlong had scored 179 and that looked a winning score when Dederang slumped to 8-139.
But a 30-run partnership from Luke Deans (28) and Lachlan Lewin steadied the innings.
However when Deans was run out, the second-placed outfit still needed 15 runs.
But Lewin (18 not out) and Corey Jones (five not out) guided the team home.
Wodonga helped its minor premiership hopes with a 52-run win over Corowa.
The home outfit looked in reasonable shape at 6-137, but lost 4-7 to finish on 144.
After playing the first 14 rounds in provincial, Luke Jones snared a match-winning 6-26.
And Kiewa blasted Bethanga.
The visitors were defending 174 and Kiewa finished on 9-276.