Young guns Ebony Winston and Ava Sloan starred as the Kiama Cavettes completed a perfect start to their South Coast Cricket women’s first-grade campaign at Bonaira Oval last Friday.

Cavettes skipper Brooklyn Brown sent Shellharbour into bat and a combination of energetic fielding and tight bowling kept runs to a minimum.

Winston, Phoebe Glaessner, Emma Ford, Brielle Cleary and Amanda Cleary were among the wickets as Shellharbour were held to 5-135 from their 20 overs.

Sloan and Winston opened up in the run-chase and were hurtling along at more than 10 runs an over.

They each hit a six and kept the scores flowing to reel in the target in just the 12th over without a wicket falling.

Winston finished on 71 not out and Ava was unbeaten on 37 as they recorded the highest Cavettes partnership on record.

In the other matches, Tahlia Pracy and Anne Boatswain each scored 51 as the Ratatouilles beat the Ratettes by 16 runs in the clash between the two Oak Flats sides.

Ex Servos (1-85) thrashed Kiama (5-82) and the Kookas (0-95) did likewise to Lake Illawarra (9-94) with Jennifer Kitchen bagging 3-9 with the ball.

In the men’s competition, Kiama scraped home with just two overs to spare to beat Oak Flats by four wickets at Geoff Shaw Oval.

The Rats made 7-197 with opener Kip Penfold top-scoring with 85 but the Cavaliers managed to hand the home side their second straight nail-biting loss with Ryan Butta (69) and captain Jaya Hartgerink (42) doing the bulk of the scoring.

Hyeon Parsons smashed a brilliant 173 to lead North Nowra Cambewarra to victory over the Kookas at Oakleigh Park.

Parsons belted 17 fours and cleared the boundary rope nine times, speeding along at a strike rate higher than 160 in his 108-ball whirlwind.

None of the Kookas bowlers were spared from his onslaught - veteran all-rounder Craig Bramble was the best of a badly beaten bunch, finishing with 3-62 from six overs.

Even after Parsons was out stumped, his teammates kept the runs flowing with Elijah Guyatt (48), captain Nathan Thomas (40) and Blake Horton (42) making handy contributions in the imposing total of 9-401.

Lake Illawarra remained undefeated after thrashing Ex Servos by 115 runs at Howard Fowles Oval.

Jackson Ingram blasted 19 fours and a six to record a century with his 109 coming from just 62 deliveries.

Jake O’Connell hit 10 boundaries in his 68 and Noah McWilliams added an unbeaten 48 as the Lakers were bowled out inside 43 overs with Ex Servos skipper Andrew Wilson (4-44) keeping them in check.

But the visitors collapsed to be 7-58 and never recovered, all out for 120 with Ryan Smith’s 3-25 the best of the Lake bowlers.