Casey South Melbourne has bounced back from consecutive losses beating near-neighbour Dandenong by five wickets with 39 balls to spare.
Dandenong set Casey 169, with Ryan Hammel (37), Matthew Wilson (32) and Vishwa Ramkumar (27) all getting starts, but the innings never really got going as the Swans were able to make regular breakthroughs at Shepley Oval.
Playing his second First XI game of the season, Evan Allway took three wickets, as did Finlay Gordon with the pair bowling well in partnership.
Panthers opening bowler Noah Hurley got both openers , before a stabilising partnership between Jackson Isakka and Yash Pednekar.
Ramkumar and skipper Brett Forsyth, though, kept their side in it by reducing Dandenong to 4/106, before an unbeaten 69 to Daud Malik broke the back of Dandenong’s probing bowling attack.
In his 300th game of Vic Premier Cricket, James Nanopoulos bowled a frugal spell of 0/24 off 10 overs and was run out for six batting at number eight.
A 147-run opening partnership between Tom Morrison and Venuk Hemichandra lifted Dandenong’s Second XI side to 5/274, which proved 34 runs too good for the visitors.
Six of Dandenong’s eight bowlers used got a wicket in Casey’s run chase, with number three Lenny Wilton top scoring for the Swans with 78.
A 168-run second-wicket partnership between Rohan Chandel (80) and Liam Antonello (86) guided Dandenong to a comfortable seven-wicket victory chasing Casey’s 206 in the Third XI game.
Kartikay Sharma starred in Dandenong’s Fourth XI game, clattering 78 runs off just 63 balls to help the Panthers set 232, before his 6/24 coming on after the opening bowlers put pressure on Casey and sealed an 85-run win.
