Wodonga Raiders claimed their first win of the season via the Duckworth-Lewis method on a rain-affected day in the provincial competition.
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Having posted 4/158 against Belvoir at Bunton Park, they kept the Eagles to 2/89 from 14.2 overs before rain stopped play.
And delighted coach Stewart Pearce confirmed Raiders were going home with the points.
"The club had three wins today," he beamed.
"Our B-grade side is three out of four and they're going really well.
"We're trying to keep those processes going right through the club so that we're all playing in the same way."
Jesse Griffiths, playing for the first time this season, top-scored for Raiders with 53 off 40 balls while captain Greg Roberts (48 not out) and Finn Gray (19 not out) shared a crucial 62-run partnership.
Julian Butters picked up 2-10 for Belvoir, who were again led with the bat by Kaiden Withers, the teenager reaching 42 before Alistair Burge had him caught by Gray.
Drew Cameron (13) and Lachie McMillan (10) were the not-out batsmen when play was abandoned.
"We batted really well, set up by Jesse at the start," Pearce said. "He worked his way into it, a little bit rusty to start with but once he got going, it flowed more.
"Greg batted really well, especially batting with Finn, who's one of our young guys coming through.
"The two of them together put on a really good partnership at the end there.
"We were pretty happy with the score that we got but we knew they were always going to come at us pretty hard, which they did.
"Kaiden Withers got off to a pretty good start and they were hitting some boundaries so we were trying to defend as best we could.
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"We picked up a couple of wickets and they needed 70-odd off six overs.
"We thought we could defend that but from the week before, with St Pats, we were always a bit wary of them coming in and bombing some big balls at the end."
Withers is now the competition's leading run-scorer, having made 132 from just three innings at 66.
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