WBOPC action in the Bay

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Whakatane United will host Lake Taupo XI for round two of the WBOPCA Reserve Grade competition at Taneatua Domain today.

Last weekend both teams posted maximum points in the title race, with Taupo accounting for Sikh Sports and Whakatane United getting home from Cadets.

While Aquinas College will have a tough ask for the their competition match after their game against Tauranga Boys College wasn't played. The Aquinas students face Mount Maunganui who lost by a solitary run against Greerton in round one.

Two teams who won a piece of cricket silverware last season will square off at Pemberton Park. Defending Reserve First Round title holders Greerton could be tested by the R&A Sangha team, who won the Baywide McNaughton Trophy last season.

Recent local Reserve heavyweights Katikati, who were another team not to get onto the field of play last Saturday, will be at home at the Uretara Domain in Katikati to Sikh Sports.

Tauranga Boys second eleven play Rotorua visitors Geyser City at Waipuna Park with Te Puke verses Cadets at the Gordon Spratt Reserve in Papamoa.

The Tauranga Boys College third eleven made a successful debut in the Western Bay Reserve competition after previously playing secondary school grade cricket. They posted 253/5 against Albion and then bowled can them out for 60 claim a big win.

However they face a very big challenge on Saturday when they meet long time B Grade contenders Grasshoppers at Gordon Spratt one. The Hoppers have been around since the 1980's and have become the benchmark team of the Western Bay second echelon competition over the years.

Te Puke region Singh XI were one of the hot performers of the 2015/16 season winning the B Grade championship. They square off with Mount Maunganui at the Gordon Spratt Reserve with - Albion and Wanderers, who both call Fergusson Park home playing for early season bragging rights.

WBOPCA DRAWS - OCTOBER 15:

RESERVE GRADE

  • Aquinas College v Mount Maunganui, Aquinas College
  • Greerton v R&A Sangha, Pemberton Park
  • Tauranga Boys College v Geyser City, Waipuna1
  • Katikati v Sikh Sports, Uretara Domain
  • Te Puke v Cadets, Gordon Spratt Reserve
  • Whakatane United v Taupo, Taneatua.

Points Table (Provisional): Taupo 20, Greerton 20, Whakatane United 20, Sangha CC 20, Aquinas College 10, Tauranga Boys College 10, Katikati 10, Mount Maunganui 10, Geyser City 6, Sikh Sports 3, Cadets 2.

B GRADE

  • Mount Maunganui v Singh XI, Gordon Spratt Reserve (Alice Johnson Reserve)
  • Albion v Wanderers, Gordon Spratt4
  • Grasshoppers v Tauranga Boys College, Gordon Spratt1.

Points Table (Provisional): Grasshoppers 6, Tauranga Boys College 6, Singh XI 6, Mount Maunganui 0, Albion 0, Wanderers 0.

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