City United and Eastern Suburbs both recorded their first wins of a rain-interrupted season in under 16s on Saturday.
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However, the round-four highlight was Raymond Terrace’s upset win against the powerful Northern Suburbs Black.
Terrace won by three runs after they posted 6/134 and held Norths to 8/131 in the one-day fixture.
On the individual front the stars of the round were Raymond Terrace under-16 batsman Logan Andrews who made 52 and Norths before retiring.
Tenambit Morpeth’s Ryan Wind scored an unbeaten 51 against City United in under 14s and Eastern Suburbs Blue’s Joseph Hancock scored 43 not out against Eastern Suburbs White.
Eastern Suburbs under-16 Sean Gibson was the pick of the bowlers taking an amazing 5-4 in the Griffins win against Northern Suburbs Red.
In under 14s, Tallon Gear from Raymond Terrace claimed 4-1 against Thornton Park.
Joaquin Viera starred for Karuah and Tea Gardens taking 3-8 against Clarence Town in under-13s.
The round four results have thrown the under-16 ladder wide open, with Northern Suburbs Black and Red on top of the ladder on nine points, with City United, Raymond Terrace and Eastern Suburbs on five.
Kurri Weston has yet to record a win.
Opener Logan Andrews was the star with the bat for Raymond Terrace compulsorily retiring on 51. He received good middle-order support from Jacob Page (18), Duncan Akerman (17), Brayden Brooks (14) and Aiden Bills (11).
City United were comfortable winners against Kurri Weston at Robins Oval.
City had the visitors at 5-1 at one stage but the young Warriors fought back to finish on 9-64.
Jordan Murphy, Sam Jordan, Cameron Wynn and Liam Mullard all took two wickets each.
City chased down the total in the 12th over with Cameron Wynn top scoring with 28 and Jock Vivers and Isaac Barry passing the total on 25 and 11 not out.
Sean Gibson led a terrific bowling performance by Eastern Suburbs taking 5-4 as Northern Suburbs Red was all out for 64.
Matthew Lynch took 2-7 and Tobias Porter, Cooper Lee and Sean Gibson got one each. Lynch backed up with the bat to top score with 25.