The mid north coast side is now unbeaten in two years at the U14s carnival, with the core of this year’s side also victors from last season.

After the Tamworth top order blasted their way into the final the previous day against Hastings, a collapse in the final had the hosts on the back foot and fighting for every run.

Opening bowler Alisha Phoonie gave it to the boys, taking the wicket of both openers in her first spell.

Lachlan Barton couldn’t repeat Thursdays’s heroics, getting trapped in front for five in the bowlers second over, before she went on to disturb the furniture of keeper batsmen Hamish Fauchon to have the hosts scrambling at 2-13. The trend continued as Tamworth struggled to be 5-46 at drinks and then 8-56 shortly after.

The Tamworth bowlers dug deep and stuck around to give themselves a decent target to bowl at.

Kyle Jennings (18) and Sam Buster (13) were the only bats to break into double figures with a late partnership that saw the hosts finally fall for 90.

After scoring 183 on Thursday against Armidale the coastal batsmen were in good nick, but also suffered a top order collapse that had the game up for grabs.

After 30 overs the Coffs side were battling at 6-53, while the Tamworth bowlers applied the pressure.

Barton, Jennings and skipper Logan Barnes shared the early wickets, although Humraj Singh steadied the Coffs ship as he chipped away at the total with the tail.

Alex Roseby took a good catch from the bowling of Sam Buster before taking the ball himself and doing some late damage. Roseby caught two in front in one over with his clever spin bowling and the game was  in the balance.

With seven overs to go Coffs needed eight runs with just one wicket in hand.

Another LBW appeal was dismissed before Noah Pilon put two cracking on drives through the circle to make up the runs and keep his team’s unbeaten record.

Coach Paul Symons was over the moon with his teams efforts after losing early wickets.

“When those boys at the top went I thought we were in trouble,” Symons said.

“We started really well and the bowlers won us this game.”

Tamworth coach Clive Barton was far from disappointed with the loss.

“I thought the side did incredibly well to get into the final and then almost defend a small total like that,” Barton said.

“Our bowlers were excellent but we just let ourselves down with the bat at the top.”

“It has been a great team effort all week and everyone has really put in.”

In the other games Hastings came out on top of another close game to claim third.

Setting a total of 110, the Barbarians got plenty of starts but no-one went on as they fell just four runs short of the total.

Armidale recovered from a big loss on Thursday to inflict one of their own against West Pennant Hills Cherrybrook.

The New Englanders batted first with JAckson Gwynne not missing out piling on 42 as they set 118 for the win.

In reply WPHC saved their worst for last collapsing to be all out for 41, Shaun Harkin almost scoring half of those himself with 18.