Baywide Cup competition leaders Carrus Mount Maunganui have made a grand start to the current season where teams have had to battle the elements as much as the opposition.

Mount Maunganui have drawn Cooney Lees Morgan Tauranga Boys' College this Saturday, with the Tauranga Boys' side sitting just off the lead in second equal place on the standings

Round Three sees the six teams playing on grass for the first time this season, with Mount Maunganui squaring off with Tauranga Boys' on Blake Park number three. It'll be a home game for Tauranga Boys' while Nicholson Field is undergoing rejuvenation.

Both Mount Maunganui and Tauranga Boys' have a solid background of promoting young talent into the premier cricket ranks. Blair McKenzie and Luke Tatley are two Mount young players to earn promotion to premier cricket, while still attending secondary school.

Tauranga Boys' new first XI recruits in Iman Singh and Rhys Mischewski have also made good impression with the ball with Iman Singh posting best bowling figures of 3/31.

Defending Baywide Cup titleholders Eves Realty Greerton have some work to do to get into contention to defend the Baywide first round prize after losing their first two games of the new season. But on Saturday they'll have home advantage at Pemberton Park when New World Te Puke pay a visit.

The game matches the current Baywide Cup holders up against Te Puke who won the Baywide big prize of the Williams Cup in late March. Te Puke knows all about pressure cricket with the game likely to go late in the afternoon.

Current Baywide Champion of Champions Element IMF Cadets could have their hands full on their trip to the Sulphur City to square off with Bayleys Central Indians at Smallbone Park. Central and Bay of Plenty Indians combined forces at the start of the 216/17 season and have shown that they have plenty of batting and bowling firepower in their ranks.

BOPCA BAYWIDE CUP DRAW - OCTOBER 29 (12PM START):

• Eves Realty Greerton v New World Te Puke, Pemberton Park
• Cooney Lees Morgan Tauranga Boys' College v Carrus Mount Maunganui, Blake3
• Bayleys Central Indians v Element IMF Cadets, Smallbone Park.

POINTS TABLE:

1. Carrus Mount Maunganui - 42
2. Element IMF Cadets - 34
3. Cooney Lees Morgan Tauranga Boys' College - 34
4. New World Te Puke - 22
5. Bayleys Central Indians - 14
6. Eves Realty Greerton - 6