SOUTH Launceston batter Belinda Wegman smashed a second ton for her season to lead her side to an easy victory against Mowbray in their round-eight Cricket North women's Twenty20 match last Sunday .
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Wegman smashed 111 off 54 balls with a strike rate exceeding 200 per cent.
Wegman and Courtney Webb opened for the Knights and combined for a 95-run partnership off 8.5 overs before Webb was caught off the pad by Mowbray all-rounder Belinda Hancock.
Wegman then continued with Georgie Palmer to put on another 43 runs before Palmer was out for four.
Stacey Norton-Smith, Lisa Battle and Amy Duggan then assisted the Knights to reach a total of 5-196, setting a massive chase for the Eagles.
Mowbray wicketkeeper Lynn Hendley kept the Knights on their toes with two stumpings.
Knights opening bowler Webb was dominant in her first couple of overs of the Mowbray innings, taking two quick wickets as she dismissed Simone Mitchell and Tiffany Palermo for ducks.
South had the Eagles sweating at 4-23 off five overs until Eagles batter Belinda Hancock (30) combined well with Cassie Blair (14) to restore the innings.
South continued to bowl good line and length and, after Hancock and Blair were dismissed, Mowbray struggled to be all out for 81 in the 18th over.
Webb was the pick of the Knights bowlers with 2-11 off her two overs.
The match between Launceston and Riverside went down to a last-ball thriller at the NTCA ground.
Winning the toss, Riverside chose to bowl on a deteriorating deck.
Launceston openers Rhianne Hack and Kelly Britton took the total to 0-62, off nine overs, to worry the Blues before Britton (24) was dismissed by bowler Rebecca Hoodless.
Hoodless then continued the onslaught, claiming Emily Nunn for a duck in the same over.
Lions Captain Dana Lester and Hack then put on a 73-run stand before Hoodless claimed the vital wicket of Hack, bowled for 51, in the last over.
Hoodless was important in the innings, snaring the only three wickets for the Blues as the Lions put on their best batting performance for the season.
Lester finished on 26 not out, while Launceston made a convincing 136, its highest score for the season.
Blues openers Emma Manix-Geeves and Lauren Hepburn set about the chase and the opening pair batted for 12 overs before Lions bowler Hack made the breakthrough in the 12th over, trapping Manix-Geeves LBW.
She then followed with the wicket of Sam Cotton, bowled for a duck in the same over.
Launceston continued to apply pressure with an excellent bowling partnership between Hack (2-23 off 4) and Nunn (0-19 off 4).
Hepburn and Abbie Nimmo finished off the Blues innings in the last over, with Hepburn smashing a four over the bowler's head.
On the last ball of the innings, Hepburn scored the winning runs to pass the Lions' score of 136 by pushing a two through the covers.
Four overthrows from the Lions field helped the Blues reach 3-141 after their 20 overs.
It was a great game that had spectators on the edge of their seats.
