On the hottest day of the year so far Abergavenny Beavers finally began their Marches league division three campaign with a one wicket win over Garnons seconds. New captain Owain Bradley won the toss and put the visitors into bat. Tom Griffiths opened the bowling with the returning Lee Fury who was playing hist first game since 2009. Both bowled with lively pace beating the bat on several occasions. Fury claimed the first wicket of the day, bowling the Garnons opener, and another wicket followed with debutant Dinesh Rex claiming a wicket with his second ball caught at mid wicket. Youngster Richard Monnington came on first change replacing Griffiths and as always kept things very tight going for 13 runs off his five overs. He also chipped in with the one wicket and Bradley also getting an lbw in his favour. A run out which was neatly done by Griffiths and a further wicket for Rex restricted Garnons to 145-6 off 45 overs. Rex was the pick of the bowlers as he finished with impressive figures with two for 20 off 10 overs with three maidens. After tea lAber made a disastrous start to the innings as John Lamont, Rex and Drew Heffernan all returned the pavilion for single figure scores. A solid partnership between veteran batsman Nick Kinman(27) and eleven year old Morgan Bevan (15) got the score up to 60 against some good tight bowling. Both batsman were then out in successive overs leaving the Beavers with a lot of work to do. Mark Winstanley hit a couple of blows to the boundary but was unluckily bowled, Griffiths and Fury didn't hang around long and more than 40 runs were still needed but importantly there was still 15 overs remaining. Nathan Holley rotated the strike nicely and also put the bad ball away for four but he was dismissed for 31 with five runs still required. Monnington hit his first ball for a single and skipper Bradley (16no) stroked the winning runs as Aber just about got over the line, winning by one wicket. The Beavers next game is against Goodrich seconds.