The Flames were never in a position to challenge the home team’s score of 289 and fell for 89 in 39.5 overs.
Young opener Miller Griffiths and co-skipper Jake Gascoyne, both with 25, top scored for The Flames.
Moama elected to get some batting practice in a second innings and reached 5-163 before stumps were drawn on the Brigade’s season.
· The only spot up for grabs in the top four was seized by Echuca South which replaced Rochester, beaten outright by Echuca which replaced Moama in top spot with its maximum points win.
Chasing Echuca’s moderate score of 136 Rochester buckled in its first innings to be out for 52 in 24 overs with Matt Hinks claiming eight scalps for 17 runs off 10 overs.
Echuca batted a second time to reach 4-128 after a half-century from young talent Kobyn James before declaring and leaving Rochester 118 to avoid an outright defeat.
But Rochester’s batters failed again in their second trip to the batting crease, making 94.
· Bamawm-Lockington United held down third spot on the ladder with a decisive win over Nondies Cohuna.
Resuming at 1-153 in reply to Nondies Cohuna’s 86, BLU went onto to post 4-248 with skipper and opener Regis Chakabva taking his score to 143 with 14 boundaries and four sixes.
Nondies Cohuna made 156 in its second innings with Liam Hamilton taking 4-22.
· Cooma finished the season with a win, comfortably accounting for Tongala.
Resuming at 3-24 chasing Cooma’s score of 151 Tongala could manage only 92 with Luke Smith (30) and Keagan Miller (21) providing more than half these runs in a fighting 49-run stand for the eighth wicket.
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