Ferndown's super six Eric Linge, James Raftery, Will Samson, Alex Samson, Freddie Pittaway, Miles Lewis.
Ferndown Wayfarers are through to the Lord's final of the ECB national six-a-side cricket championships on Sunday week, March 17.
They stormed through the west regional play-offs in Somerset's indoor centre at Taunton, sweeping aside Welsh champions Neyland and then Southern Premier League side, Old Tauntonians & Romsey in ruthless fashion.
They thrashed Pembrokeshire-based Neyland, last winter's beaten Lord's finalists, by six wickets and then, with 17-year old Freddie Pittaway leading the way, went on to skittle OTs & Romsey for a meagre 38 to win the regional final by a thumping 95-run margin.
Ferndown's reward is a national semi-final meet-up with powerful ECB Birmingham & District Premier League outfit Halesowen, who won the Midlands group.
Winners of the Dorset Indoor League last month, Ferndown went into the Taunton play-offs as underdogs - but they soon shrugged off that tag with a commanding performance against Neyland.
The Welshmen, beaten of the last ball in the 2023 final, lost two early wickets to Pittaway and Miles Lewis and, save middle-order pair Nick Koomen (28) and Sean Hannon (27), made little impression.
Their well below par 73-4 was greedily polished off by Alex Sansom (26) and Eric Linge (25), who both retired as Ferndown cruised home without loss with 15 balls to spare.
Ferndown were arguably again second favourites to win the regional final against OTs & Romsey, who defended 117-5 to beat much fancied West of England Premier League side Bridgwater by ten runs in the second semi-final (see separate report).
But once again Wayfarers rose to the occasion, none more so than teenager Freddie Pittaway, who destroyed OTs with a sensational four-wicket new-ball spell.
Opener Alex Sansom (33 not out) top scored as Ferndown, with everyone chipping in with key runs, posted 122-3, the highest total of the day.
Pittaway, who rushed back to Sparsholt Agricultural College near Winchester after the finals to prepare for an important Monday morning examination, simply blew OTs away with a phenomenal spell of 4-21 - all four dismissals hitting the stumps, one even breaking them !
The right-arm paceman even had a hand in Miles Lewis's 2-17 return, catching Harry Tulk (17) on the back boundary wall. OTs were all out for 38 in 4.4 overs !
They stormed through the west regional play-offs in Somerset's indoor centre at Taunton, sweeping aside Welsh champions Neyland and then Southern Premier League side, Old Tauntonians & Romsey in ruthless fashion.
They thrashed Pembrokeshire-based Neyland, last winter's beaten Lord's finalists, by six wickets and then, with 17-year old Freddie Pittaway leading the way, went on to skittle OTs & Romsey for a meagre 38 to win the regional final by a thumping 95-run margin.
Ferndown's reward is a national semi-final meet-up with powerful ECB Birmingham & District Premier League outfit Halesowen, who won the Midlands group.
Winners of the Dorset Indoor League last month, Ferndown went into the Taunton play-offs as underdogs - but they soon shrugged off that tag with a commanding performance against Neyland.
The Welshmen, beaten of the last ball in the 2023 final, lost two early wickets to Pittaway and Miles Lewis and, save middle-order pair Nick Koomen (28) and Sean Hannon (27), made little impression.
Their well below par 73-4 was greedily polished off by Alex Sansom (26) and Eric Linge (25), who both retired as Ferndown cruised home without loss with 15 balls to spare.
Ferndown were arguably again second favourites to win the regional final against OTs & Romsey, who defended 117-5 to beat much fancied West of England Premier League side Bridgwater by ten runs in the second semi-final (see separate report).
But once again Wayfarers rose to the occasion, none more so than teenager Freddie Pittaway, who destroyed OTs with a sensational four-wicket new-ball spell.
Opener Alex Sansom (33 not out) top scored as Ferndown, with everyone chipping in with key runs, posted 122-3, the highest total of the day.
Pittaway, who rushed back to Sparsholt Agricultural College near Winchester after the finals to prepare for an important Monday morning examination, simply blew OTs away with a phenomenal spell of 4-21 - all four dismissals hitting the stumps, one even breaking them !
The right-arm paceman even had a hand in Miles Lewis's 2-17 return, catching Harry Tulk (17) on the back boundary wall. OTs were all out for 38 in 4.4 overs !
