Mount Maunganui seek clean sweep

Victory for Platinum Pacific Reclad Mount Maunganui against Tauranga Boys' College today sees the Mount side attempt a clean sweep of Baywide and Western Bay Premier cricket trophies this season.

The Mount side has been in dominant form in the Baywide cricket ranks, posting an unbeaten record – with there only defeat by Greerton coming in the Western Bay one-day competition back in October 2010.

A Mount victory against Tauranga Boys' at Blake Park would add the BOP Cup and Hart Family Trophy (Baywide Champion of Champions) to the Williams Cup and Western Bay championship.

The Mount side has also won the ND Club Championship for the second successive season.

While Tauranga Boys' sits in the middle of the BOP Cup points tally, they are again fashioning an impressive record in the Gillette Cup.

Last week the Western Bay School blasted their way into the ND Gillette Cup semi-finals, when they demolished Whangarei Boys' High in the far north.

After posting 164 all out they removed the home side for 39, with Myles Timoti returning the outstanding bowling figures of five wickets for just seven runs.

While Dawson Insurance will hold the iTCo Challege Shield through the winter break, they will want to end their season with a flourish against Rotorua Boys' High School.

The Rotorua students have become the giant killers of Baywide cricket, taking the scalps of Eves Realty Greerton and Tauranga Boys' College, in successive weeks.

Element IMF Cadets, who would benefit if Mount Maunganui stumbled at the last hurdle, should wrap up second place in the Baywide second leg, when they play East Bay United at the Tauranga Domain.

BOP Indians could give iTCo Central a run for there money in a Rotorua local derby – with bragging rights on the line, in the match-up between Greerton and Ultimate Motor Group Te Puke.

Bay of Plenty Cup Cricket Draws 26 March 2011

BOP Indians v iTCo Central, Smallbone Park; Platinum Pacific Recall Mount Maunganui v Tauranga Boys' College, Blake1; Rotorua BHS v Dawson Insurance Eastern Pirates, RBHS; Eves Realty Greerton v Ultimate Motor Group Te Puke, Pemberton Park; Element IMF Cadets v East Bay United, Tauranga Domain.

Points Table (points average)

Mount Maunganui 20, Cadets 18.14, Eastern Pirates 17.66, Greerton 14.0, Te Puke 13.71, Tauranga Boys' College 10.71, Central 10.42, BOP Indians 9.0, Rotorua BHS 10.28, East Bay United 4.57

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