The Williams Cup cricket encounter, at Pemberton Park on Saturday was a thrilling run fest with the home side Eves Realty Greerton chasing down Cooney Lees Morgan Tauranga Boys College huge target of 342, with the last ball of the game.

Tauranga Boys made a cracking start, courtesy of Yorkshire County CC batsman Alex Lees worked his way to 85 off just 57 balls, before he was caught behind off the bowling of Dan Spencer. Tim Clarke and Tom Renouf continued their side's momentum to reach the sixties, with Dominic Crombie also making a more than useful contribution. The visitors finished their turn at bat, posting 341/8, with Jared Tutty claiming three wickets for Greerton.

The Greerton opening pair of Tom MacRury and skipper Shane Wineti got their team through to 124, before MacRury was removed for 85. When the Greerton captain fell for 79, the home side were 203 for the loss of two wickets. Tauranga Boys bowlers upped their intensity to turn the momentum, with Greerton needing ninety odd runs of the last ten overs.

Harrison Perry, Lee Watkins and Josh Healey-Ormrod made solid contributions with the bat, before keeper Darren Heimann belted a four of the last ball of the game, to see Greerton sneak home to victory. Mikaere Leef grabbed four wickets for Tauranga Boys with Dominic Crombie taking two bowling scalps.

Carrus Mount Maunganui continued their unbeaten start to the Williams Cup, defeating Bayleys Central Indians in another high scoring match-up. The Mount representatives were bowled out for 244, with Brenton Thompson continuing his good run of form to top score with 51 runs. Ben Musgrave, Blair McKenzie and Pete Drysdale all made solid contributions with the bat. Himesh Gosai was the pick of the Rotorua side bowling attack, taking three wickets for 38 runs.

Central Indians were in the encounter for much of their turn at bat before being bowled out for 188, to give Mount Maunganui their third straight win in the Baywide championship. Individual honours were picked up by Ajay Kumar who top scored for the visitors with 33 runs while Chris Atkinson took four wickets for the Mount.

Element IMF Cadets joined Mount Maunganui at the top of the Williams Cup standing, cruising to victory against New World Te Puke at the Tauranga Domain. The visitors batted first and were bowled out for 163, with Gareth Wallace top scoring with 59 runs. Kamal Bains and Donovan Deeble did the damage with the ball taking three wickets apiece.

The Te Puke bowlers had early success before Morton Freer dug in to belt 83 runs. Donavan Deeble backed up his bowling to post a solid 33 as the hosts cruised to a six wicket victory.

BOPCA Williams Cup Results 21 January 2017

Bay of Plenty Cricket Results 21 January 2017

Williams Cup

New World Te Puke 163 (Gareth Wallace 59, Josh Earle 29; Kamal Bains 3/22, Donovan Deeble 3/33, Scott Steward 2/19) lost to Element IMF Cadets 167/4 (Morton Freer 83, Donovan Deeble 33; Brody Gilroy 2/38)

Cooney Lees Morgan Tauranga Boys College 341/8 (Alex Lees 85, Tim Clarke 69, Tom Renouf 67, Dominic Crombie 35; Jared Tutty 3/97, Dan Spencer 2/68) lost to Eves Realty Greerton 344/8 (Tom MacRury 85, Shane Wineti 79, Harrison Perry 50, Lee Watkins 35, Josh Healey-Ormrod 31; Mikaere Leef 4/34, Dominic Crombie 2/70)

Carrus Mount Maunganui 244 (Brenton Thompson 51, Ben Musgrave 45, Blair McKenzie 39, Peter Drysdale 33; Himesh Gosai 3/48, Tom Yarrall 2/38, Rohan Gosai 2/52) defeated Bayleys Central Indians 188 (Ajay Kumar 33, Himesh Gosai 30, Rohan Gosai 27, Andrew Gibbs 25no; Chris Atkinson 4/32, Kyle Dovey 3/30, Dale Swan 2/36)

Williams Cup Points Table: Carrus Mount Maunganui18, Element IMF Cadets18, Eves Realty Greerton 12, Bayleys Central Indians 6, Cooney Lees Morgan Tauranga Boys College 0, New World Te Puke 0.