The young Bushies defeated Rovers United Bruck at the Benalla Gardens.
Played over two days, the grand final saw the under-16 Bushies asked to bowl after losing the toss at their home ground.
Opening bowlers Henry Sadaya and Matt Knight put the pressure on early with tight lines.
This yielded results when Sadaya trapped the RUB opener LBW for the first wicket with just nine runs on the board.
Matt Priest chimed in next with a wicket thanks to a sharp catch by Deakyn Kohler, while spinner Ryan Martin got the prize wicket of Paddy McNamara LBW.
RUB was 3/39 and finding runs hard to come by.
Angus OHalloran and Jasper DeFazio both grabbed a wicket each and Knight was on a hat trick at one stage late in the RUB innings.
The visitors finished 8/100 from their 42 overs, with Knight and Priest taking two wickets each.
Jack Fullager took two catches, while captain Bode Stevens also showed safe hands with a couple of catches.
It was not an ideal start to the run chase on Sunday, as openers Fullager and Luke Dunne were back in the sheds cheaply at 2/11.
However, Stevens and Knight steadied the ship, adding 60 runs with plenty of boundaries.
Stevens shouldered arms to a ball that jagged half a metre and was out for 38 runs, including seven boundaries.
Big-hitting Deakyn Kohler followed shortly, which brought Sadaya to the crease with Knight, getting the Bushes over the line to pass the required 100 runs in the 25th over.
Knight was not out 25 and Sadaya unbeaten on 23.
Stevens was dubbed the Bushies player of the grand final, awarded by the umpires.
The grand final win was satisfying for the under-16s and coach Conor Brodie, who lost just one game for the season and finished on top of the ladder.
A-reserve
In senior cricket, A-reserve pulled off an impressive victory over ladder-leader Yarrawonga-Mulwala. The win secured the Bushies third spot on the ladder and a place in the WDCA finals.
Playing at the Benalla Gardens, the Bushies started the second day of the game with Yarrawonga-Mulwala on 3/55 chasing 140 for victory.
It did not take youngster Jasper DeFazio long to bring about the downfall of another Yarra wicket.
DeFazio put on a bowling clinic, restricting runs and keeping the pressure on the batsmen.
Ryan Lloyd-Williams and Senaka Lakmal then combined to keep the scoring down and the wickets falling.
The loss of McCabe for the sixth wicket (with the score on 114) triggered a collapse from the Yarrawonga-Mulwala batsmen and they were all out for 126.
DeFazio finished the game with 4/17, while Lakmal took 3/17 and Lloyd-Williams 2/30.
A Reserve will now play Rovers United Bruck in a semi-final in Wangaratta this weekend.
A-grade and B-grade
Unfortunately the season is over for the Bushies’ A and B grades, both missing out on finals because of losses during the weekend.
A-grade fell 71 runs short of their 239 run target playing against City Colts in Wangaratta.
Simon Holmes top scored with 32, while Nate Abley made 31 and Vaughan Kirk 30.
A-grade finished sixth on the ladder, five points out of finals contention.
B-grade suffered a heavy loss to City Colts in Wangaratta after being bowled out for 66.
Playing with just nine fielders did not help the Bushies cause, as the Colts piled on 270 runs.
B-grade finished seventh on the ladder.
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