Bathurst Orange Inter District Cricket: How your team fared on the final day of the regular season

With Orange City losing its match against Cavaliers, the door was open for Saints to take top spot.

They looked the goods to snatch victory heading into day two, trailing by 180 runs with eight wickets to spare, however, after losing some late wickets, the Bathurst club was at 9-184 and the pressure fell to Tom Siede and Josh Wilcox for one final stand for the Saints.

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And the winning run fell the way to Wilcox, who's score tipped Saints to the magical 195 score, enough to secure a one-wicket win and the minor premiership.

Saints gun Connor Slattery scored the highest figures with the bat, eventually dismissed for a total of 68.

Centrals had proven resilient across the two-day match, with Daryl Kennewell and Edward Dodds snatching three wickets each.

Centennials Bulls have finished the season on a high, defeating CYMS by five wickets at the Sportsground on Saturday.

Heading into day two, Bulls trailed the green and golds by only 46 runs, after dismissing the Orange club for just 127 on day one.

Centennials had already lost four wickets on day but only lost one more on the way to chasing CYMS down, before passing the Orange club's total and dismissed for 184 runs.

Tyler Horton topped score for Bulls with 44.

CYMS returned to the crease for a second innings and were almost dismissed for a second time, finishing at 9-142, with Bulls skipper Kurt Toole ripping through the green and golds' order, taking five wickets.

You'll be lucky to find a more bizarre result in Bathurst Orange Inter District Cricket, with Bathurst City falling short of an incredible outright victory of Rugby Union.

Redbacks had won the first innings - just Rugby Union's second defeat of the season and bringing a run to its 10-match unbeaten run - but with a finals points at stake if an unlikely outright victory was achieved, Redbacks declared at 5-63 after their second stint with the bat.

What happened next was simple crazy.

With Rugby Union needing one run to win, Jonah Ruzgas was dismissed, giving the Bulldogs a total of 134 for its second innings and 261 across the two innings, the same total of Redbacks.

The result meant Redbacks had won on first innings and tied outright, meaning if Bathurst City had dismissed Rugby one run earlier, they may have played finals but alas, it was not meant to be.

Orange City has surrendered the 2020-21 Bathurst Orange Inter District Cricket minor premiership after a disastrous second day of play that resulted in an 85-run defeat.

Heading into Saturday, the Warriors had only lost one wicket and trailed Cavaliers by 171 runs but what entailed on day two was simply disappointing for City, as they lost nine wickets and couldn't even crack the 100-run mark, handing Bathurst rivals St Pat's Old Boys the minor premiership.

Opening batsman Ben Schofield had been dismissed for one run on day one but his offsider Troy O'Keefe fell for three and number three Ben Johnson was out for two, leaving the Warriors in a worrying situation of 3-9.

Skipper Blake Weymouth tried to spark an Orange City revival, but he was out for 10 and the rest of the day proved a struggle in the Bloomfield Oval sun, as the Warriors were dismissed by 95.

Nothing should be taken away from the victorious Cavs, Kyle Buckley (5-38 off 11), Mark Maybin (3-12 off 5.4) and Hugh Britton (2-38 off 11) sharing the wickets around in a devastating effort with the ball to put their rivals on notice heading into the finals next weekend.

Heading into day two, it looked as if Kinross were on the verge of its first win of the Bathurst Orange Inter District Cricket season, but what entailed on Saturday was nothing short of a miraculous City Colts turn around.

Colts stunned the students, claiming outright points after trailing by 80 runs and three wickets heading into day two.

The wickets of David Giorgio and Pat Hill fell on day two, leaving Colts with just one wicket to spare but Dean Henderson came in at number 11 and scored the second highest total of his team's innings with 26, while Josh Toole showed what he's still capable of as he hit 44 with the bat to pass Kinross' total with one wicket to spare.

After Colts were dismissed for 134, the students were sent back in to bat again and a devastating five-for from Thomas Murray played a big part in Kinross being dismissed for just 57 runs in 17.2 overs.

Colts would go on to outright Kinross in just 12 overs, with some seven wickets to spare.

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