A SIX from The Armidale School’s Dominic Pilon off the last ball of the game secured a tie with visiting Shore School at the TAS Cricket Festival on Tuesday morning keeping the two schools at the top of the ladder and setting up an exciting fixture when they meet again at an extended non-competition match tomorrow.
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On Monday, TAS bettered St Ignatius College Riverview’s 105 (Euan Spiers 3-16, Pilon 2-8), making 2-107 in the 19th over. The hosts then played Scots PGC Warwick, racking up 8-197 in 25 overs including a solid 61 from Nick Day, with Scots 4-138 at the close.
TAS was always going to find Shore the school to beat, the two teams being the co-premiers from last year’s festival in Sydney.
The hosts won the toss and sent the Sydney visitors into bat, Shore tallying up 8-147 at the end of the 25th over. Whilst TAS openers Nicholas Farrar (43) and Day (41) put some numbers on the board, the run rate escalated away from the hosts after the 20th over, with chance of a victory slipping away and 10 runs required off the last two balls. A well-placed shot from Kieran Dennis delivered three runs leaving Pilon to face the final ball of the match.
Tuesday afternoon TAS met Downlands College Toowoomba, who had defeated Riverview earlier in the morning.
TAS batted first making 8-148, with Downlands finishing on 9-125. In the other afternoon fixture, Riverview defeated Scots PGC. Whether TAS wins the festival outright or shares the honours with Shore for the second year, will depend on the outcome of the Shore v Riverview game this morning.
Meanwhile the two Queensland schools will face each other before a NSW v Qld game in the afternoon.
A non-competition 50-over match between TAS and Shore will be held tomorrow, at TAS.
“The highlight of the day was definitely when Dominic hit the six, but just as importantly has been the way the team has developed over the week,” captain Ben Moffatt said.
“We lost six boys from Year 12 and our youngest player is just going into Year 9, so it’s extra exciting to have regained the trophy which reflects the efforts of the boys. This festival is the highlight of the season for us, being a schoolboy competition with evenly matched teams.”
The coveted trophy is a cricket bat signed by the Western Australian team that won the 1991-92 Sheffield Shield competition and decorated with the plaques of winners since the inaugural tournament in 1993.
