His performance book St Pat's in for their maiden Royal Hotel Cup final appearance against Orange City on Friday night, pitting Broes and Dave Boundy as the two leading run-scorers of the competition in a bat-off at Wade Park. 

St Pats Old Boys chased down Cavaliers' 104 with very little problem, losing just two wickets in the process. 

Cavaliers called Stu Middleton to the top of the order to replace the absent Ryan Kurtz, and while they started promisingly by taking 15 off the first over and forging an opening partnership of 22 with Wayne Sellers, the former was dismissed in the first ball of the third over by Tanvir Singh. 

Sellers departed shortly after for 11 with Singh (2-21) dismissing both openers, but Josh Doherty (19) and skipper Matt Corben (15) put on a 42-run stand and looked to have Cavaliers settled at 2-68 in the 11^th over, primed for an assault on the final stanza of the innings. 

Enter Nic Broes. 

Broes has been handy with the ball in season 2018-19 with six wickets in four games before Friday night.

However, he nearly doubled that total as he tore through both Doherty and Corben, having the former caught by Singh and the latter caught by fellow young gun Ben Mitchell, and from there took two more as the wickets tumbled.Wes Lummis made 10 but Mitch Black (3), Bailey Ferguson (3) and Kaleb Cook (7) came to a grinding halt against St Pat's Old Boys' spin kings. 

Broes would take a further two wickets to finish with phenomenal figures of 4-12 from four overs, while Jameel Qureshi took 3-15 off his four to shut down any rear-guard resistance from Cavaliers. 

While Mitch Maybin (11 not out) tried hoiking a few runs late in the piece, Old Boys' skipper Adam Ryan engineered a run-out of Hugh Middleton to close Cavaliers' innings for 104. 

It only took St Pats 12 overs to chase down the total as young guns Mitchell and Broes were nearly halfway to the total after just three brutal overs. 

Mitchell hit four fours on his way to a quickfire 20, while Broes turned over the strike and hit singles to reach 33 before he was bowled by Mitch Maybin with the score on 76. 

Ryan and Connor Slattery came to the crease and put the result beyond doubt, with the skipper whacking four fours to put the hosts out of their misery. 

Cavaliers' all-rounder Josh Doherty threw his hand up as a culprit for the loss after sending down 13 wides in his two overs during St Pats' chase, and it just wasn't his night, with his dismissal smacking a waste-high full toss to deep square leg. 

However, he heaped praise on the St Pats' side with "so much depth".

"Benny Mitchell's a good mate of mine and he's a classy little players, he capitalised on some poor bowling early and when he got out [Nic] Broes took over," Doherty said. 

"It was always going to be tough against them." 

Old Boys' skipper Adam Ryan was stoked with the result, saying his side was "very excited" after the win. 

He said Broes' performances with both bat and ball no longer surprised him.

"We just sort of expect it now … he's a big factor in our continued success," he said.