Tonight the Panthers were once again to strong for North Geelong at Myers Reserve.

The Panthers got off to a decent start with Matthew Sampson-Barnes and Matt Thomas, Sampson Barnes particularly keen on being crafty with his reverse and conventional sweeps before his demise shortly after. Enter Simon Anderson who from the get go looked too lift the scoring with some brilliant ball striking.

Thomas was then dismissed as was Ryan Mills shortly after. Heath Farnsworth then joined Anderson and they set about continuing to tick
The scoreboard over on what was not the easiest pitch to bat on. Anderson was bowled after trying to heave one of the Thorne twins onto the Bowling Green behind the clubrooms.

Farnsworth then got going, he cleared the pickets on several occasions lifting the panthers above 100 with two overs remaining, Matthew Reid who was turning the strike over well then lost his wicket bringing Chris Nolan to the crease who hit two boundaries in the last two overs and turned the strike over well to get Farnsworth on strike. Farnsworth then proceeded to clear the pickets twice straight down the ground and then on the last ball of the inning pulled a ball to the square leg fence to reach 5-128 off their allotted 20 overs.

In reply North Geelong started well getting to 0/20 off the first 4 overs, before star bat Jake Thorne was dismissed. Between the opening bowlers Anthony Foord and Jake Reid they continued to apply pressure to North causing confusion and a steady flow of wickets in the middle overs, the spinners Matthew Sampson Barnes and the straight breaks of you guessed it Simon Anderson put the breaks on the scoring and Anderson himself was 'electric' taking wickets and causing run outs at will. he also pulled off what you could call a KFC zinger classic catch dismissing 'a' Troy brother with a sharp caught and bowled opportunity.

Leading into the back end of the North innings they had too much to do with little men left in the Hotchin. Dylan Stojanovski bowled well under pressure following up from his sharp spell last Saturday evening in the 2nd XI.

The last wicket fell with North needing 20 to win off 9 balls when "The Big Foo" (Anthony Foord) ran out the non striker with a laconic back hand flick which hit middle. North all out 109.