Mariners third grade club's sole seniors weekend win

Rockingham-Mandurah will have plenty to contemplate over Christmas after a solitary win against Bayswater-Morley in round 8 of WACA District Cricket.

The third-grade win, inspired by Dane Ugle, sees them in fourth place at the halfway point of the 2014-15 season.

At Lark Hill, the first-grade encounter between the Mariners and Bears went down to the last overs before the visitors finished at 8-255 after Rockingham-Mandurah posted 9-241 on day one.

As expected, the spinners played major roles with Ryan Done and Chris Phelps winding through 55 overs as a left arm orthodox duo. Done finished with 3-72 from 30 overs and stunted the Bears from 2-119 to have them crawling at 6-160.

Debutant Phelps, a mainstay of successful WA country teams in the past decade, wheeled away for 25 overs in grabbing 3-46 but the Mariners' third-straight loss puts them two wins outside the finals spots.

Following his scorching club record 243 not out last week that has garnered social media attention, Ugle will not be on any Christmas card lists of the Bayswater players as he finished the job with the ball to complete a 215-run romp.

Matthew France, Ben Miles and Jordan Brokate chimed in with a couple of wickets each but it was Ugle, whose left arm orthodox befuddled the Bears to take 4/55 in dismissing them for 153.

An outright loss at Hillcrest Oval is a double whammy to second grade who drop to eighth while Bayswater-Morley climbed to third after posting an innings and 18-run belting.

Aaron Burrage tried his best with the ball to finish with four victims in the home side's 8-279, a lead of 107 runs.

The Mariners then capitulated in 33.2 overs for just 89 and saw the Bears climb 15 points ahead of them, the same amount they got for the outright result.

Subrata Das claimed a maiden five wicket haul but it wasn't enough to help the fourths over the line. Bayswater got to 9-213 in reply to Rockingham's week one score of 152 but Das' 5-23 was the highlight of an otherwise bleak time for the maroon caps at Hillcrest.

In the second innings Rockingham-Mandurah finished on 5-119, Joel Marion stacking up his first innings 75 with another 46 not out.

Narrow margins decided all junior matches on the weekend but only one of the four games favoured the Mariners.

The under 17s snuck home chasing Bayswater-Morley's 121 as Patrick Italiano steadied the hosts with 44 but it needed a last wicket effort between Daniel Baker and Adam France to secure the victory.

At 8-110 the under-15s were all but gone at Hillcrest but Brandon Steel (29) and Johan Van der Westhuizen (13) put on 43 for the ninth wicket to nearly engineer a win chasing the Bears' 172.

After a week off, round 9 starts for the seniors against Melville as the ones and threes travel to Tompkins Park.