Parkes scored 190, with Parkes captain Myles Smith top-scoring with 87.

Molong were dismissed for 60 runs.

Smith was the chief destroyer with the ball taking 4 wickets and received good support from Phil Dunford (3 wickets), Anthony Riach (2 wickets) and Brent Tucker (1 wicket).

Parkes will next face-off against Grenfell on December 22 at Woodward Oval.

Parkes will hope to continue their strong form in the Grinsted Cup competition.

Reedy Creek edge out Commercial by 1 wicket

Reedy Creek 9/125 in 24 overs defeated Commercial Dilligafs 123 in 24 overs. Reedy Creek (5pts) defeated Commercials (0pts) by 1 wicket. Unfortunately, no individual player scores were entered into MyCricket at the time of going to press.

Honey Badgers win close game against Parkes Hotel Galahs

Parkes Hotel Galahs 90 in 26.5 overs (Nic Parker 25, Brent Skinner 12, Dale Ingram 3/9 off 3, Dan Gordon 2/9 off 3, Carl Redenbach 1/7 off 3 & Mal Bruce 2/10 off 3) lost to Honey Badgers 7/91 in 25.3 overs (Aaron Thorne 21, Chris Orr 17, Mal Bruce 22, Peter Batt 10, Tim Allen 1/5 off 4, Jayden Chapple 2/27 off 6, Brent Skinner 2/17 off 5, Brad Parker 1/23 off 6 & Jacob Parker 1/17 off 4.3 overs). Honey Badgers (5pts) defeated Parkes Hotel Galahs (0pts) by 3 wickets.

In a low scoring match, the Honey Badgers snatched a valuable victory over a very competitive Galahs team. Nic Parker scored a gritty 25 runs off 41 balls to top score for the Galahs, while Mal Bruce (22 off 32 balls) and Aaron Thorne (21 off 29 balls) guided the Badgers to victory.

Northparkes cruise to convincing victory over Star Hotel

Star Hotel 67 in 18 overs (Greg Powter 2/2 off 2, Brad Wales 2/31 off 5, Usman Cheema 2/15 off 4 & C Higgins 3/7 off 4) lost to Northparkes CC 3/70 in 17.4 overs (Ruben Bondareff 29no & Chris Higgins 18). Northparkes CC (5pts) defeated Star Hotel (0pts) by 7 wickets.

Batting first Star Hotel only totalled 67 runs in 18 overs. Star Hotel did not provide any individual details of their players batting and bowling performances on MyCricket. Northparkes CC were best served by Ruben Bondareff 29 no and C Higgins (18 runs a top bowling spell of 3/7 in 4 overs).

Paul Dunford century inspires Colts to win over Parkes Cats

The run of recent century makers in the Lachlan Premier Cricket Competition continued as Paul Dunford batted with excellent determination, power and stroke play to score a fine century for Parkes Colts against local rivals Parkes Cats.

Paul Dunford blasted 4 sixes and 8 fours on his way to score 111 runs in a match winning innings.

The scores were: Parkes Colts 4/226 in 40 overs (Paul Dunford 111, Brent Tucker 50, Koby Johnstone 29, Joseph Tanswell 12no, Phil Dunford 10no, Jonah Ruzgas 2/56 off 10 & Clinton Hawke 1/27 off 6) defeated Parkes Cats 8/187 in 40 overs (Mitch Wright 51, Cameron Rosser 44, Shane Jones 29, Dan Wilson 16, Jonah Ruzgas 16no, Brent Tucker 1/19 off 5, Phil Dunford 1/9 off 5, Koby Johnstone 2/42 off 7 & Ryan Dunford 0/16 off 5).

Parkes Colts won by 39 runs to remain the top of the Lachlan Premier Cricket point score table for the 2019/20 season.

Batting first the Colts lost inform opener Myles Smith off the second ball of the match for only 2 runs. Brent Tucker demonstrated that he is a quality batsman as he reeled off a series of well struck drives to compile a fine innings of 50 runs as he and Paul Dunford added 96 runs for the 2nd wicket.

Koby Johnstone batted very sensibly with Paul Dunford as Colts gathered good runs in a 3rd wicket partnership of 102. Paul Dunford continued to display powerful strokes to bring up a well played century.

Youngster Joseph Tanswell showed plenty of promise as he batted in partnership with Phil Dunford to give Colts the good score of 4/226 after their allocated 40 overs. All the Cats bowlers worked hard to restrict the Colts total.

In reply, Colts started strongly with the ball dismissing Anthony Riach & Mitch Cambourn in the first 4 overs.

Dan Wilson batted in partnership with Cameron Rosser who in making an appearance for the Cats soon demonstrated that he is still capable of playing brilliant, powerful shots - his first four scoring shots were all superb boundaries as he scored 44 runs.

Shane Jones (29) was batting determinedly before he was dismissed. Mitch Wright then proceeded to play a series of powerful strokes on his way to top score for the Cats with 51.

The father and son combination of Phil (1/9 off 5) and Ryan (0/16 off 5) Dunford caused problems for the Cats batsmen. Koby Johnstone completed a good all round games to collect 2/42 off 7 overs for the Colts.

Coolabah Cup:

Thursday 28/11/2019 - at Woodward Oval - match to begin at 6pm:

Bowling Club v Northparkes CC.

Friday 29/11/2019 - at Northparkes Oval - match to begin at 6pm:

Reedy Creek v Parkes Hotel Galahs.

Saturday 30/11/2019 - at Northparkes Oval - match to begin at 1pm:

Star Hotel v Commercial Dilligafs.

Honey Badgers - Bye.

Lachlan Premier Cricket:

Saturday 30/11/2019 - matches to begin at 1pm:

Parkes Cats v Valleys at Woodward Oval.

Parkes Colts v Parkes Raptors at Spicer Oval.

Cowra Bowling Club - Bye.