The Scone Under 14s had a great season and entered the grand final as slight favourites, despite having to play with only nine players with Luke Ihle and Tom Brooks both unavailable.
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Despite this, they still performed outstandingly which was evident in the end score of Scone 3/90 defeated Muswellbrook No1 88.
Muswellbrook No1 batted first and Lachlan Cheshire (1/4) and Liam Moore (1/8) took two early wickets to have them 2/14.
An excellent innings from Josh Cooper (31) and some big hitting from Finn McLoughlin (28) took them to 2/72 after 15 overs and a big score looked possible.
Scone increased the pressure with some tight bowling from Sam Heaton (1/9), Matt Saunders (3/5) and Lachlan Buckley (3/9), and Muswellbrook collapsed to lose their last eight wickets for 16 runs and be all out for 88.
Scone again fielded strongly with six great catches and a run out from seven different players in a good team performance.
Scone made a steady start losing the wickets of Lachlan Buckley (2), Liam Moore (7) and Jack Pennell (3) to be 3/32 after 12 overs.
Lachlan Cheshire (31 retired which included two huge sixes) was batting beautifully, and when joined by Matt Saunders (23 not out) they put on a quick fire 35 runs off just 28 balls, taking the game away from Muswellbrook No1.
When Cheshire retired Sam Heaton (10 not out) joined Matt and the game was closed out with seven overs to go.
With Nick Brooks, Matt Davis and Pat Tillemans still to bat it was a comfortable win and the boys should be proud of their efforts.
The fact that every player in the team contributed with both bat and ball throughout the year was the big difference between Scone and all the other teams.