Archer Backway is the centre of attention after taking a hat-trick in the grand final against Bamawm Lockington United art Moama on Sunday.
A show-stopping hat-trick in Sunday’s Goulburn Murray Cricket under-17 grand final paved the way for a Kyabram Fire Brigade premiership victory.
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Archer Backway was the seventh bowler used in defending the 6-201 total that his team had posted after Bamawm Lockington United sent them into bat in the match at Moama Recreation Reserve.
His first over produced a stunning hat-trick and took BLU from a position of potential strength to one of absolute desperation.
Archer Backway explodes into celebration after taking a hat-trick in the GMC under-17 grand final on Sunday at Moama.
At the start of the 32nd over, which was the first of three from Backway, BLU was 5-137. Backway’s first ball was sent to the boundary and the next two followed incident free.
With balls four to six he removed Brayden Hull, Gideon Flett and Nate Holgate in successive deliveries.
Fire Brigade’s premiership winning under-17 team is, from back left: Ben Chapman, Jedd Turpin, Charlie Isaac, Keplar Cleveland, Oscar Carver and Oliver Barnett. Front, from left is Archer Backway, Marley Gordon, Riley Carver, Wil Harrison, James Hargreaves and Hamish Stewart.
By the time he had finished his spell and taken the last wicket of the match - his fifth - BLU was all out for 169.
The 40-over one day contest featured 370 runs and 16 wickets, with BLU batter Oscar Palmer keeping his side in the match with an unbeaten 62.
Hamish Stewart (left) joins in the celebration with Archer Backway after he took his fifth wicket for the game.
Backway finished with figures of 5-17 from three overs, following on from a five-wicket haul a week earlier by Oscar Carver.
All-rounder Backway had failed with the bat a week earlier, so the man of the match reward at the end of the game was fitting reward for his determination.
BLU sent Fire Brigade in to bat on Sunday after winning the toss. It was a decision the side may have regretted as it wasn’t until the second ball of the 20th over that it took the first wicket.
Opener Hamish Stewart was out for 44 (from 50 balls, with six boundaries and a six), having shared in a 95-run opening stand with Oscar Carver.
Carver wasn’t out until the 34th over (the fourth wicket to fall), putting a heavy prize on his wicket as he faced 109 balls for his 48 (with seven boundaries)
Backway (8) and Wil Harrison (19 from 36 after scoring a half century last week) came and went before hard hitting middle order contributions from co-captains Riley Carver and Oliver Barnett took the score beyond 200.
Carver scored 27 not out from 21 balls, including three boundaries, and Barnett scored a run-a-ball 14. James Hargreaves was run out on the final ball of the innings for 12.
His innings featured one six and one boundary in the second last over.
Riley Carver made the first breakthrough when it came Fire Brigade’s turn to bowl, removing opener Charlie McIntyre in the seventh over.
It wasn’t until the 14th over that the second wicket fell, BLU star batter Kade Pearse out for 30 when he was caught off the bowling of Harrison.
A pair of run outs and a wicket from Marley Gordon, saw BLU fall to 5-91 - enter Oscar Palmer.
He contributed all but 10 of a 51-run stand with Brayden Hull, who batted for 42 deliveries for his 10 runs.
Palmer made quick work of scoring his half century from 34 deliveries. He later returned to the wicket, at the fall of the ninth wicket with BLU needing an unlikely 50 runs for victory.
He finished unbeaten with 62, from 44 balls, with six boundaries and a six.
Archer Backway in the final over of the match, when he took his fifth wicket and wrapped the game up for Fire Brigade.
The show-stopping moment came in the 32nd over, Backway breaking that partnership with the first of his five grand final day wickets.
His fourth wicket was Rylee Tyrrell, in the 34th over, but Palmer and number eight batter Jack Mundie refused to give up.
He had seen the number nine and 10 go for golden (first ball) ducks and then watched on as Tyrrell lasted just four balls.
Mundie and Palmer had taken eight from the first five balls of the 36th over before Backway clean bowled the tail ender for 12 and the title was in Fire Brigade’s keeping.
Fire Brigade co-captain Riley Carver shows his frustration late in the Bamawm Lockington United innings on Sunday.
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