Murgheboluc will have one eye on its final-round GCA Division 2 clash against Geelong City and one on Myers Reserve where Bell Park plays Bell Post Hill.
The Frogs are currently 0.6 points ahead in second place and skipper Luke Brown said it would be a strange situation.
“We’ll definitely be keeping an eye on their (Bell Park) game – if they get enough bonus points and we both win, they can certainly leapfrog us,” he said.
“So it’s definitely something that will be keeping an eye on to maximise any potential points that we can get anywhere.”
Brown said even though Geelong City is 7th on the ladder, it is still capable of playing good cricket. City has its own battle to contend with, being just 1.7 points ahead of bottom side Geelong West.
“Geelong City have quite a strong line up still,” Brown said.
“So we know that they’re going to bring their A game to us on the weekend and we need to bring ours also to try and win. I haven’t played cricket at City for a little bit, so it’ll take a little bit for us to sort of get used to their conditions as well and we’ll definitely have to put up our strongest fight to contend with them.”
The Frogs’ round 13 was done on the back of a combined 60 overs being delivered and all 10 wickets taken by Daniel (6/73 off 31 overs) and Jason (4/52 off 30) Grozdanovski.
With Seb Hutley for the season with a foot fracture and Luke Webb unavailable, it meant Brown was able to turn to the Grozdanovskis for long spells.
Chasing 216, the Frogs were 2/9 before Owen Dunipace (96) and Sam Abley (44) combined for a 105-run stand.
“Those two batting together – the left-hand, right-hand combination- I thought really worked well together and they capitalised on any balls that were in their scoring zones straight away. It was a credit to them both.”
Brown then came in and made a valuable 65 and Murgheboluc passed the total three wickets down before going on to make 7/289 in pursuit of bonus points.
“Bonus points were definitely on our mind,” Brown said.
“It was a slow wicket, so it was hard to sort of come in and score straight away. So we were trying to up the ante in terms of runs and see how many we can get on the board.”
Bell Park can still grab second spot after a narrow win against Geelong City. Tynan Kelly was the star with 6/19 from 18.4 overs and Michael Lymer made 62.
Torquay defeated Bell Post Hill and has one hand on fourth spot. Ash Russell (5/57 from 29 overs) dominated for the Tigers with Bell Post Hill all out for 197. Half-centuries to Gurpreet Singh (53) and Russell (50 not out) steered Torquay home with four wickets in hand.
Lara stayed unbeaten with a big win against Leopold with Daniel Weigl (71 and 3/21) and George Blatherwick (6/39) the key players.
