Mornington will resume on 2-59, chasing Albion’s 154.

“We’ve got a lot of work to do. Obviously the Mornington batsmen dug in and we only picked up two wickets,” Jenkinson said.

“We were short a couple of bowlers and we dropped a couple of catches as well, which didn’t help.”

They are still, he felt in a good position. 

The top order again set a good foundation, Nathan Millar taking over from opening partner Zach Martin as their top-scorer, smacking 54 off 52.

Jenkinson lamented that they weren’t able to go on and make a bigger score after being 2-65 at first drinks (15 overs).

“We had a fair few guys get starts but they didn’t convert them,” he said.

“A few of us probably threw our wickets away when should have grounded out the innings.”

They had a bit of a wobble after drinks losing 3-8 at one stage, but Jake Vigor (25), Andrew George (21), Ryan Cooper (14) and Russel Baker (11no) chipped in with valuable runs to lift them above 150.

Hayden Baker then provided the initial breakthrough trapping Trent Lumby (23) in front before Zac Clarke had Stan Gaynor stumped a few runs later.

“Young Dossy (Baker) and Zac they bowled really well again,” Jenkinson said. 

“I bowled them for pretty much the last hour and they did a good job of containing the runs.”

Baker finished with 1-14 off 11 with five maidens and Clarke 1-5 off six.

Justin Carter was unbeaten on 23 at stumps and Jamie Mitchell seven.

“We ended up in a pretty good spot,” Mornington captain Sam Lumby said.

”Bowling them out in 38 overs gives us plenty of time to bat it out.”

Inheriting Albion’s leftover overs, the plan going out to bat was to just “grind away”.

“I would have been happy to be 0-40,” Lumby said.

“Trent and Justin did a good job.

“They just ground it out. They rotated the strike well and didn’t let them (Albion bowlers) get on top of them.”

He and brother Trent earlier both finished with three wickets, while Isaac Reeves nabbed two.

In the other game an unbeaten half-century from Oscar King has set Court House up for a shot at the outright points.

The defending champions already have first innings points after dismissing Kookaburras for 90 and then successfully chasing down the runs.

Shayne Riordan stood tall for Kookaburras with 55 and virtually held their innings together. 

They were in trouble when he came to the crease and lost their way when he was dismissed, the last five wickets falling for just six runs.

“It was great batting from Shayne, a really good innings. He didn’t give any chances. It was a well-deserved 50,” Court House keeper Blake Small said.

Sam Doubleday (3-20) eventually got through his defences trapping him in front. 

Luke Ellis (22) was the only other batsmen to reach double figures as Court House rolled through them in 47.2 overs.

“It was a good bowling performance considering [skipper] Farran (Lamb) only bowled five overs himself,” Small said.

He did in that five pick up Kookaburras opener Cameron Milne, which was a big wicket.

Brad Gander also chimed in with 3-18 while King preceded his deeds with the bat with 2-1.

Small was also impressed by Oscar Thomas (0-17). He was getting a bit of shape, he said.

Ben Haire (23) and Jay Urquhart (38) then got the run chase off to a good start putting on 60 for the first wicket. 

They lost both within a run of each other but King and Small safely steered them to first innings points.

“Oscar batted really well,” Small said.

He finished unbeaten on 53 and smacked five fours in his 59-ball knock, three late wickets leaving Court House 6-129.