GLANGRWYNEY CC were forced to endured a frustrating 12 run loss away at Builth Wells on Saturday.
In uncharacteristic fashion Mr Boswell won the toss and elected to bowl first. This started to look like a wise call and both Ben (2/25) and Joe Bowker (1/50) made early inroads with both the dangerous De Greeve and Gerry Morgan leaving proceedings early.
This sparked a mini resurgence from Builth with captain Mead leading the way. The introduction of Phill Bowker (3/49) and Tom Grubb (4/36) initially was expensive until some cat like reflex fielding from Geoff Holmes sparked a flurry of wickets. Once Mead was dismissed Grubb was able to mop up the tail with surgeon like precision with Builth finishing on a seemingly achievable 162.
With 54 overs to play with, Glangrwyney started poorly losing Paul 'Magic' Daniell in the first over. This brought together the prolific Tim Jones (50) and Mike Parker (19) putting on a watchful 74 for the second wicket. Jones was dismissed in controversial circumstances with his runner being 'run out'.
The Groin were still in a commanding position but it wouldn't be a Glangrwyney match without a patented batting collapse which was duly provided by the lower order.
Tom Grubb batted well holding the innings together but when he was dismissed four short of a deserved half century the writing was on the wall. Glangrwyney snapped defeat from the jaws of victory and will rue dropped catches and in the end a poor lower order display.
They will hope to bounce back when they take on fellow basement boys Shobdon next week.
Meanwhile, Glangrywney's second team were put in on a damp wicket against Luctonians thirds, and after a couple of early wickets, skipper Tony Jones and Lewis Morgan got the innings back on track with an 82 run partnership.
James Thomas and Tom Miller added 44 in even time, and Dave Lewis and Gerant James put on 25 at the end, to see a reasonable total achieved considering the early conditions.
On taking the field, Glangrwyney's Hadyn Davies claimed an early scalp, but after that toiled away with no success. For Luctonians, opener C. Connop carried his bat for a deserved century, supported by C. Humber in a 149 run partnership that formed the basis of the visitors winning run chase.