WILLIAMSTOWN has played out a dramatic tie with Moorabbin in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association.
The Seagulls’ finals ambitions took a turn for the worse as a result of their failure to win.
Chasing 191, the Seagulls were bowled out for 190, on the second-last ball of the innings.
They could point to the 14 wides they coughed up in Moorabbin’s innings of 8-190.
Cameron Smith bowled an entire extra over and a bit with six wides and two no-balls. The team had 23 extras.
Opening bowler Daniel Popa had team-best figures of 2-22 off seven, but also had three wides. Veteran all-rounder Craig Sheedy snared 2-32 off eight.
The Seagulls made a flying start to their run chase. Nathan Hall (36) and Sheedy (43) combined for 73 for the second wicket to put the home side in the box seat at 2-89.
Moorabbin tightened the screws in the middle overs, taking wickets at regular intervals.
Brenton Hodges (18), Mathew Inness (22), Graham Murdoch (16) and Grant Sandars (19) all got starts without capitalising.
It was left to tail-enders Smith and Popa to guide the Seagulls home. They got seven runs to get to the tie before Smith heard his stumps rattle.
The Seagulls will need an abacus of results to go their way to feature in the finals.
For starters, they need to get over Yarraville in the western suburbs derby away at the Yarraville Oval. Secondly, they need the Kingston Saints to be beaten on the road by Moorabbin.
Then they need either Brighton or Ormond — the fifth and sixth placed sides meet at Brighton Beach Oval — to lose. If they somehow manage to play out a tie, the Seagulls are heading for their end-of-season break.
■ Altona has shaken up the finals with a gutsy four-wicket win over Ormond at EE Gunn Reserve. The A’s coasted to the 224 target with 18 overs and four wickets to spare.
The in-form A’s have won three of their past four matches but left their run a tad late to make a run for the finals.
■ Yarraville fell 60 runs short in its run chase against Elsternwick at Elsternwick Park.
SCOREBOARD
Firsts: Williamstown 190 (C Sheedy 43 N Hall 36) tied Moorabbin 8-190 (D Popa 2-22 C Sheedy 2-32); Elsternwick 274 (HE Nurse 106 A Scholtz 61 C O’Neill 43no R O’Neill 36 T McRae 6-45 R Cox 2-47) d Yarraville 214 (MM Harrison 39 AJ Yates 38 B Shaw 32 D Saville 30 C O’Neill 4-50 A Fraine 3-48 DA Jones 2-56); Ormond 223 (M Thomas 79 M Hansen 57 T Stait 26no L Elmore 3-21 O Alsop 3-71 AP Maynard 2-32) lt Altona 6-226 (AP Maynard 80no A Brown 66 L Elmore 25 T Stait 2-19 M Hansen 2-34)
Seconds: Moorabbin 177 (C Speakman 4-47 M Ferrie 2-25 B Fowler 2-28 J Craigie 2-39) lt Williamstown 218 (C D’Altera 101 A Freeman 56); Yarraville 56 (C Maguire 26no JB Midwinter 5-11 CG Sinclair 2-10 TG Vale 2-21) and 4-121 (MA Poole 37 A Ramadge 33 JB Midwinter 2-21) lt Elsternwick 206 (JD Dunnachie 106 TG Vale 32 J Booth 3-21 PW Cruden 3-26 C Maguire 2-42); Altona 94 (MS Davis 42 SL Gordon 4-8 V Sundaramoorthi 3-27) lt Ormond 9-233 (M Williams 69 B Cameron 59 V Sundaramoorthi 47 BA Madigan 3-14 A Rafferty 2-23 C Bancroft 2-33)
Thirds: Williamstown 6-418 (N Rainone 155 S Davis 101 N Bugeja 44no M Knight 37no) d Ivanhoe 203 (J Paulsen 6-48); Balwyn 8-206dec (DP Boland 78no RA Mehta 38 AG Weeramantry 29 M Devlin 2-40 M Woods 2-52]) d Yarraville 204 (P Galea 83 M Woods 49 DP Boland 4-40 JE Lowrie 2-36 T Silvers 2-37) and 6-106 (J Kerr 26 DP Boland 2-17); Plenty Valley 181 (B Roughsedge 47 J Bergman 32 B Murfet 3-26 S Clarke 2-42) d Altona 127 (J Donazzon 25 D Mobilia 2-9 T Dupreez 2-17 B Roughsedge 2-20)
Fourths: Yarraville 189 (C Jamieson 41 L Henderson 33 A Georgiou 31 E Freeman 30 PJ McCarthy 3-25 ML Letcher 3-63 GI Clarke 2-44) d Balwyn 104 (AF Ting 53 D Pearce 3-10 C Jamieson 2-24); Altona 109 (F Ali 49 N Wallace 3-19 T Vandekolk 3-19 J Woodruff 2-21) and 67 (M Cullen 25 D Wallace 3-14 T Vandekolk 3-26 S Brennan 2-9) lt Plenty Valley 3-111dec (M Raven 48 M Ablinger 2-44) and 0-69 (N Wallace 34no S Brennan 30no); Ivanhoe 6-251 (Campbell 67 no Molloy 58 no) lt Williamstown 7-357 (M Brown 141 M Lauder 46 T Ball 38 JK Mattsson 34 N Harkins 25)
