Day 1

This round thirds took on Helensvale Pacific Pines at a very hot, humid and slow Pacific Pines High School.

Bowling first we started the day well, taking a few early wickets and keeping the runs at an absolute minimum with some fantastic field and great hands. Russ Green in his first game for the bay (and first game back after 13 months) took a few quick wickets with some loose balls. We let them back into the game as Helensvale steadied their ship and batted sensibly for a while, finishing on 184. Star of the day was Boof Le Jeune, taking 4/35 in a great display of bowling, not afraid to give the ball some flight to take a wicket.

Our innings started disastrously, with Hinzy holing out to mid on early, and Patty Brown taking a suicide single to be run out by metres. We finished at 3/39, with 150-odd still to get on the second day.

Day 2

With a further 154 runs to win with 7 wickets and some good batting in hand, we were confident of a win.  We started badly though, losing overnight batsmen Scott Mulligan (12) and Brett Smidt (14) early.  Boof was looking strong but was cleaned up with a ripper of a ball for 14, and with the score at 6/92 things were looking dire.  Enter newcomer Russ Green (11) and Timmy Douglas (36) who steadied things and brought us a further 30 runs towards the Helensvale total.  A strong 37 run partnership including some hard hitting between Tiimmy Douglas and Mark Davies (42) paved the way, with Mark losing his wicket whilst the scores were level.  Mick Le Jeune then hit the winnings runs before Pete Norman was trapped LBW the next ball - completing a very close, but a very satisfying win.

After not winning a game and having 5 drawn games up until January 9, this is third grade's 3rd win in a row, meaning we need to win the last two games before we could potentially secure an unlikely finals berth.