ALL Saints’ College claimed their first victory since being promoted to the Independent Schools Association Division One contest thanks to a brilliant fightback against Blue Mountains Grammar on Saturday.

The competition’s newest side have had their moments during the opening four rounds, but hadn’t turned them into wins.

All that changed after a rescue act from Campbell Morris mid-way through All Saints’ innings on Saturday at Watson Oval.

They managed to scrape together a defendable total of 169 all-out on a day where big scores seemed hard to come by across the entire competition.

They followed it with an outstanding bowling performance that saw the Blue Mountains outfit crumble for just 54, with Saints’ captain Tom Galvin once more leading the way as he bagged four wickets.

“At 5-50 or so we were in strife, but [coach] Spencer Goddard always tells us above all else to try and bat out our overs, so that’s what we aimed to do,” Galvin said.

“Campbell Morris and Cam Redpath [six] saw us through until the second drinks break which settled things down. Campbell is our in-form player at the moment and did a fantastic job.

“He started to lift it a bit in that last session, Jack Pople added good runs as well and we went into the second innings feeling pretty good with 169 on the board.

“Normally at Watson we try and aim for about 180 or a bit more, from where we were, it was a pretty positive feeling even though we had a few less than that.”

After winning the toss and batting, the hosts were in trouble quickly and under pressure from the entire Blue Mountains Grammar attack and they slipped to 5-55, a position of peril if they didn’t rectify things in a hurry.

Only 24 from Josh Willcox stopped the situation from being even worse.

Morris was the man for the rescue job, and tried to counter-attack as best he could in a crucial 44. Pople was another key man in the fightback as he struck 36 batting at number eight.

It was enough to at least make sure they had something to bowl at, and as Blue Mountains Grammar’s Daniel Lodewyke showed with his 4-18 off 10 overs, there was plenty in the wicket for the bowlers if they put it in the right spot.

Luke Johnstone (2-20) got the ball rolling for the Bathurst team by removing Connor Farnell for one, before the biggest stand of the Blue Mountains’ innings – 16 runs for the second wicket.

They made it to 1-20 and thereafter the wickets tumbled.

Galvin was in fine form and claimed 4-7 off eight overs, proving almost impossible to get off the square.

Their opponents were dismissed in the 30th over, 115 runs short.

“Getting rid of Connor Farnell cheaply was huge, he’s their gun player and their top four is probably their strength. We got rid of them fairly quickly and that got us right on top,” Galvin said.

“We needed to bowl them out in the 26th over to get double-points. We had them nine-down at that stage and they had a bit of luck to survive, but still to get that first win is very satisfying."