It’s their first title in five years of trying as a very happy sponsor Matt Halpin confirmed after his side had chased down Steggles’ 7-109 to win by four wickets with an over to spare.

“We just brought it together the last two games,” Halpin’s skipper Matt Everett said. 

The bowlers set it up for the Hurricanes, led off by Jack McVey.

He really restricted Steggles’ scoring early, going for just 12 from his four overs and taking two wickets in that.

Steggles never really got going from there, with wickets falling every 15-20 runs.

Simon Toyer held things together and was their top scorer with 53.

Openers Dave Heyman (15) and skipper James Psarakis (20) were the only other batsmen to reach double figures, Psarakis’s relatively early departure blunting their hopes somewhat of a big total.

“I knew if we could get Jimmy fairly early we could tie an end up and build pressure,” Everett said.

They did drop him when he was under 10 but it didn’t end up too costly.

Craig Baker (1-4) was also good bowling at the death.

He was then the one to get them home, hitting an unbeaten 31 from 22 balls.

The run chase didn’t start well, with Dan Lawrence skying one to Psarakis the last ball of the first over.

“We started off a bit slowly with the bat,” Everett said.

They didn’t hit their first boundary until the ninth over and were 1-41 after 10.

But with plenty of wickets in hand they were still well in it.

“I knew we had to up the tempo at 10 and started attacking a few bowlers,” Everett said.

Just as it looked like he was getting set to steer them home though, he was bowled by Will Chesterfield for 34.

That made them 3-64 with six overs to go.

Mitch Holt and Baker looked to be starting to pick up the pace but their brief partnership came to an end when Holt was run out going for a second.

The next ball the hero from the previous week, Brendan Rakus, fell to the same fate. 

Baker stemmed things with successive fours off Psarakis’s first two balls.

They did then lose Nigel Parkinson the next ball, Parkinson becoming the third batsman to be run out, but carted 16 off the over to get down to under a run a ball.

Col Smyth (11no) then joined Baker and, with a couple of flashes, helped get the equation down to four off two. 

Fittingly Baker tucked away for two to bring up the win with two balls of the 19th over remaining.

“Bakes finished it off beautifully,” Everett said.

“He batted awesome.”

Chesterfield was the pick of the bowlers for Steggles, taking 2-19.

Pat Bryant (1-11) and Tim Unwin (0-16) also did a good job early.

Psarakis said it was disappointing to finish like they did.

While 109 wasn’t their biggest score, it was defendable.

“Anything like that in a final is defendable,” he said.

And it looked for a  while like they might.

“Everyone did well,” he said.

“Just one over changed it.

“Craig Baker took us to town.”

Tamworth Plaster Works finished its debut season third after beating McDonald’s by 79 runs in the third/fourth play-off.

Adam Jones lit up the Tigers’ innings with an 89-run barrage as they posted 5-168.

They then bowled a 10-man Maccas out for 89.