The under 18s colts boys led the way with their comfortable 109 run success at The Scots’ School while Western’s under 16s were made to work hard for their 34 run win at Brooke Moore Oval.

The standout performance of the day across all age groups came from Bathurst junior Hamish Siegert at his home ground, All Saints’ College.

His unbeaten century (101) for the under 14s set up Western’s 47 run victory.

It wasn’t an ideal start with the bat for the oldest of the Western teams after they won the toss and chose to bat.

The hosts quickly found themselves in trouble when Nic Broes (1) and Mark Day (0) were removed within four overs.

With the score at 2-5 the remaining Western opener Sam Hall (37) helped to get the innings back under control.

The biggest contributions came from the middle order pairing of Tom Atlee (56) and Tom Nelson (43). The two Toms put on 47 for the fifth wicket to help Western gain the ascendancy.

Western’s tail showed plenty of fight. All the remaining batsmen were dismissed for double figures, seeing the hosts all out for 217 in the 49^th over.

With the ball in hand Western never allowed Gordon to gain any rhythm.

When Gordon were reduced to 3-23 in the space of 15 overs Western were on the track for a big win.

Some middle order resistance from the visitors wasn’t going to save them. Gordon were bowled all out for 108 in the 44^th over. 

Ryan Peacock finished with Western’s best figures of 3-8.

Western under 18s manager Greg Nicholls said his team’s big effort in the field made up for a mixed day with the willow.

“I think it just came down to our guys bowling good lines. Luke Powell and Hamish Starr set us up really well from the start. Peakers obviously bowled really well for his three-fer,” he said.

“Everyone contributed. Corey McDean took a really good catch and was very clean behind the stumps. It’s good to see because ’keepers seem to be very sparse among Western Zone.”

Nicholls will take the win but was disappointed to see his side fall short of batting out their 50 overs.

“Young Sam Hall batted very well. Tom Atlee and Tom Nelson had a great partnership which kept our innings together,” he said.

“We should have got 250 but because we were down on wickets we couldn’t really afford to accelerate. Given that we were down on wickets early getting to 217 was good in that sense.”

In the Western under 16s game it was the Tanvir Singh and Ben Mitchell show.

Singh (79, 3-37) and Mitchell (37, 3-19) produced stunning all-round performances.

Hugh Middleton (3-21) was the other big contributor with the ball.

Along with Siegert’s century, Harry Bayliss (44) and George Cumming (41) helped Western’s under 14s to their sizeable 5-254 total.

Western now prepare for trials against St George and Penrith over the 3^rd and 4^th of October respectively.