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Baywide Cup Kicks Off This Saturday

In the decade since the Baywide Cup was introduced, just three Western Bay of Plenty clubs have won the first leg of the BOPCA One-Day competitions played each season.

The Baywide Cup is played in the first half of the cricket year, with the two top sides in the round robin series, meeting in a shootout on the 15 December 2018. The second leg of the BOPCA fifty over per-side championships is the Williams Cup, which dates back to the 1930’s and will be played in the first three months of 2019.

Carrus Mount Maunganui (6) Element IMF Cadets (3) and Eves Realty Greerton (2) have all held the Baywide prize aloft in victory, during the last eleven seasons. Mount Maunganui are the only club to win the Baywide/Williams Cup double, achieving the feat in the 2010/11 and 2012/13 seasons.

Cadets will enter the fray on Saturday (27 October 2018) as the defending Baywide Cup titleholders, after defeating New World Te Puke in last year’s final. Cadets had first use of the wicket at the Tauranga Domain and were removed for 203. A fired up Cadets bowling attack removed the visitors for just 127, to hand Cadets the Baywide Cup for the third occasion.

A Baker Cup challenge at Blake Park, between current holders Greerton and Mount Maunganui, will open the season 2018 Baywide Cup proceeding. The former Tauranga Cricket Championship trophy, has been reborn as the Western Bay of Plenty Cricket challenge trophy. The old-time cricket prize, is on the line each time the current holder plays a Western Bay side in Baywide premier competition.

Greerton took the Baker Cup from Cadets in the opening round of last season’s Williams Cup and held it throughout the competition, courtesy of a unbeaten record in the season half of the 2017/18 season.

In other Baywide Cup opening day action, Cadets will meet in a replay of last year’s Baywide Cup final against Te Puke, at the Tauranga Domain. 

Owen Delaney Park in Taupo, will host a Lakeland region clash between GM Painters Lake Taupo Cricket Club and Bayleys Central Indians. The Taupo side learnt plenty of lessons in their first season in Baywide cricket last year and should give the Rotorua visitors a good battle for the win points on offer.

BOPCA Baywide Cup Draw – 27 October 2018

Carrus Mount Maunganui v Eves Realty Greerton, Blake3; Element IMF Cadets v New World Te Puke. Tauranga Domain; GM Painters Lake Taupo CC v Bayleys Central Indians, Owen Delaney Park one; Bond & Co Tauranga Boys College the bye.

Baywide Cup Champions
2017/18 (Otumoetai Cadets) 2016/17 (Mount Maunganui) 2015/16 (Greerton) 2014/15 (Greerton) 2013/14 (Mount Maunganui) 2012/13 (Mount Maunganui) 2011/12 (Otumoetai Cadets) 2010/11 (Mount Maunganui) 2009/10 (Mount Maunganui) 2008/09 (Mount Maunganui) 2007/08 (Otumoetai Cadets)