Sports reports: Brock Hallett claims victory in Sprintcar Super 8s night two
Plus the latest scores from Lower Murray Bowls and Murray Towns cricket.
This story includes contributions from Derek Vanderzon. Email your sports reports to liana@murraybridge.news.
After finishing runner-up on Night one, Brock Hallett has gone one better on the second night of the Sprintcar Super 8s.
With a second place in his heat race event, Hallett went on to finish the night strongly to take out the $8888 to win 38 Lap A-Main Feature event.
The win follows on his success at Murray Bridge Speedway earlier in the season where he also took out the Sprintcars ‘Battle of the Bridge’ event.
Matt Egel (2nd) and Luke Dillon (3rd) completed the podium placings on the night.
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McHugh superb in Super 8s
In a superb race, Lockie McHugh made his move from position eight to take out the 28 lap feature in Night one of the Sprintcars.
A pair of South Aussies, Brendan Quinn and Ryan Jones, would take up the front row positions at the start, and it would be Jones who would take the early lead.
The race would come to stop only a few laps with Glen Sutherland going up and over in Turn four.
Jones would skip away at the restart, before Quinn would be challenged by both Matt Egel and Brock Hallett, with McHugh and Jamie Veal also starting to make ground.
Marcus Dumesny would make contact with the fence, seeing the field come to stop with 12 laps to go.
The restart would be premature however, with Jy Corbet also colliding with fence.
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Tailem Bend rise from bottom to beat top team
Bottom side Tailem Bend have breathed some life back into their campaign with a 59-51 win over top side Karoonda, who conversely recorded successive losses after going unbeaten through the first full round.
Duane Edwards, Michael Thorne, Steve Gordge and Chris Slattery were 7 shot winners over Josh Porker, Malcolm Waechter, Erin O'Malley and John Wegner with a strong finish.
Edwards led by five shots at the break, but conceded six ends in a row upon resuming to trail 10-12 after 17 ends.
Edwards responded by taking the last four ends, adding nine shots to nil for a comfortable win.
Travis Schenke, Merv Stevens, Kevin mcDonald and Grantley Byrne also got up by seven shots, 24-17.
Zadow picked up a four on the second end, but Schenke emphatically responded with two fours and three twos over the next five ends to take control.
The margin blew out to 15 shots after 12 ends before Zadow briefly rallied, but never really threatened.
Ian Symonds, Garry Mason, Malcolm McKenzie and Bill Cornish salvaged two points for the visitors with a 22-16 win over David Hoare, Rob Hales, Con Jones and Stuart Rooke.
Symonds controlled proceedings almost all the way through without really breaking clear.
A four to Hoare on the 20th end was important in securing Tailem the points.
Murray Bridge continued their good recent form with a 51-47 win over RSL who sink closer to the bottom after their fourth successive loss.
Bruce Attrill, Mike Ferris, Andrew Meddle and Brian Leckie were the visitors biggest winner with a 22-14 win over Jason Sipos, David Thiele, Kerri Bolt and Garry Daniel.
The scores were tied at nine a piece at the break, but Attrill added 11 shots without reply after the resumption to lead 20-9 after 15 ends and was untroubled thereafter.
Darren McIntosh, Charlie DiSanto, Troy Penhall and Paul Smart conceded just four singles in 16 ends against David Graham, Karen Kneebone, Bob Solley and Sam Mammone to lead 18-4.
But they failed to fully capitalize on their dominance by dropping the last four ends.
Graham added eight shots to nil to make the final score a more respectable 18-12.
Noel Kneebone, Ann-Marie Kuchel, Matt Wynne and David Newell kept RSL in the contest with an easy 21-11 win over Ben Traeger, Helen Lindner, Brian Traeger and Gerry Penta.
Kneebone quickly gained the ascendancy after dropping the first two ends, adding 19 shots to just three between the second and 15th ends.
Traeger took the next four ends but had little impact on the scoreboard as Kneebone went on to win comfortably.
Mannum recovered from a slow start to easily overrun Jervois 76-54, winning on two rinks.
A rain interruption after five ends saw Jervois leading on all three rinks, but when play resumed an hour later the home side quickly asserted themslves.
David Kempe, Graham Leathers, Gary Odgers and Todd McDonnell clearly enjoyed the rain break, scoring four, three, five and one immediately upon resuming against Kevin Spinks, Graham Schenke, Robbie Tyas and Grace Hameister.
A two to Spinks was then immediately followed by another run of 13 shots to Kempe, and he went on to win 32-8.
Terry McDonnell, Marty March, Tony Gill and Ron Van Tijn had a real contest on their hands against Shawn Hicks, Graham Fromm, Bruce Smith and veteran Bob Afford, who made his first division one appearance in 30 years.
It took 15 ends for McDonnell to finally edge in front, but ten unanswered shots enabled him to prevail 23-17.
Graeme Herbert, Denis Hicks, Derek Vanderzon and Neil Morris made a strong start against Gavin Pfeiffer, Tom Towns, Stephen Gregory and Ainsley Roberts with a five on the first end.
They went on to a comfortable 29-21 win, despite dropping seven shots over the last two ends.
Pfeiffer only won seven ends, but this included a five, two fours and two three.
Pfeiffer was also eyeing off a seven late in the game before Herbert drew shot to consolidate a 15 shot lead.
Big wins in Murray Towns Cricket Association
Meningie 1/130 defeated Tailem Bend 10/127
- Meningie best: Cameron Reid 63*, Oliver Crossman 3/17, Jai Williss 3/21
- Tailem best: Paul Baxter 38, Toby Hollis 1/35
Mannum 8/162 defeated Monarto 10/70
- Mannum best: Josh Boylan 103, Kieren Hancock 3/11
- Monarto best: Cohen Schubert 17, Josh Mildwaters 2/28, Lithmin Thenuka 2/37
Wanderers 9/137 lost to Mypolonga 9/211
- Wanderers best: Steven Baltussen 29, Jake Rogers 3/26, Craig Fidge 3/37
- Mypo best: Stephen Mills 50, Samuel Elliott 3/14
