The Hills brought Merrion's winning start to the WM League to an end at Anglesea Road winning by 5 wickets to complete a miserable weekend for the home side.

In a low scoring, attritional game, Merrion started slowly relying on Max Sorensen feeding Alex Morrison's penchant for the offside to keep the scoreboard ticking over. Joe Clinton replaced the wayward Sorensen and with Albert van de Merwe battened down the hatches. The score had got to 41 in the 17th over when Clinton dropped a regulation caught and bowled. 3 balls later he persuaded John Anderson to nick behind for 15.

Ben Ackland departed to an outstanding diving catch from Sorensen and Dom Joyce joined Morrison to rebuild. They'd taken it up to 86 in the 31st over when Joyce nicked Dwyer behind to go for 23 and a clatter of wickets followed including Morrison for 48 to leave Merrion 109 for 6 with just 10 overs left. Jeff Short (23) and Kade Beasley (40) staged another recovery putting on 43 for the 7th wicket in half an hour but the returning Sorensen cleaned out the tail to finish with 4 for 50 and Merrion 164 all out. Joe Clinton (3 for 29) and Mark Dwyer (2 for 34) shared the other wickets but Luke Clinton (0 for 25 off 10) and Albert van de Merwe (0 for 22 of 10) played their part in keeping up the pressure.

 The Hills started even more slowly with only Richard Keaveney's regular supply of wides keeping the scoreboard moving at all. Trying to get things going both openers departed in quick succession leaving The Hills 18 for 2 in the 10th over. This brought Barry Archer and Mike Baumgart together and they ground out the response seeing off the dangerous Matt Petrie and Titesh Patel.

Their stand was worth 125 when Baumgart (72) gave John Anderson the charge, missed and Beasley did the needful. Two balls later Archer (36) nicked Nick Curran behind and with Dwyer repeating the trick a further two balls on, The Hills had slipped to 144 for 5 with just 6 overs left. But Sorensen and Michael O'Herlihy kept their heads and a 4 and a 6 from O'Herlihy in the 49th over finished things off. Petrie (1 for 17) and Patel (1 for 13) applied the squeeze supported by Curran (2 for 35) and Anderson (1 for 42) but there simply weren't enough runs in the locker