On Saturday Loc Hire Stenhousemuir travelled to Stirling to take on Stirling County. Stenhousemuir batted first and following the recent form lost opener Farhan Haider for 8. When Danie Rossouw joined opener Asad Izaz they amassed a fine 116 run stand taking the score to 139b when Rossouw was run out for 67. Izaz was the last Loc Hire Stenhousemuir wicket to fall with the score on 185 bowled by Ramteke for a well made 73. Callum Grant (8*) and Denico Hollis(22*) took the score to 213 for 5 at the end of the allotted 50 overs.
Stirling County were never really in trouble chasing 214 to win Bunn (95*) and Northend (73) moved the score along towards the winning target. Stirling County were greatly assisted by 10 dropped catches by the Loc Hire Stenhousemuir side. Stirling County reached their target with 12 overs to spare for an easy win which belied their lowly league position.
Loc Hire Stenhousemuir Second’s match with Inverclyde was conceded and thus had no game.
On Sunday Loc Hire Stenhousemuir travelled to Boghall to compete in the Forth Valley Midweek T20 cup finals day. Loc Hire Stenhousemuir played in the 2nd semi-final and on winning the toss asked Clackmannan County to bat first. Clackmannan struggled against some very good Loc Hire Stenhousemuir bowling and were 55 all out. Callum Grant took 2 wickets. Loc Hire Stenhousemuir scored the runs losing 4 wickets running out at 57 for 4.
In the final Loc Hire Stenhousemuir Rossouw and Smith opened the batting. They scored runs freely and quickly were over 100 Rossouw was out for another good score but Zander Smith batted on getting caught on the boundary for 99. The innings closed on 239 for 7 in 20 overs. When Linlithgow batted, they took their score to 31 for 3 in 5 overs when the match was abandoned due to heavy rain. Loc Hire Stenhousemuir won the match and captain Scott Bain received the Trophy. A much better result for Loc Hire Stenhousemuir.
The pool of players were Edwards, Shazad, Smith, Atif, Hamilton, Sneddon, McKay, Rodgers, Grant, Rossouw, Hollis, Bain (captain) Rainsforth and Greenwood.