TIGHT Golden Point bowling buffered a resilient North Ballarat charge.
An under-manned Roosters finished 48 runs short of their rival, despite closing in on the Pointies mid-way through the afternoon at Western Oval.
Golden Point captain Josh White was pleased his team had secured important back-to-back wins in the Ballarat Cricket Association club firsts.
"Hopefully we can try and move up the ladder a bit," White said.
"They (North) batted pretty well in hard conditions and it was worrying in the middle there but we bowled tight and fielded well."
Light showers slowed the Roosters' start, chasing 271 and sitting 1-1 after three overs on day-two, Saturday.
With ill number three batsman Xavier Watson missing from action, Michael FitzGerald steadied the top order with 46 runs (six fours) and a 48-run partnership with his captain Daniel Hopkinson.
It was Hopkinson who lifted the run-rate.
The injured skipper, who tore his calf muscle on day one, employed a runner but belted an impressive 62 runs (two sixes, eight fours) off 67 balls.
Pointies' returned spin veteran Pete Appleton, 3-58 and medium-pacer Mark Vandeheuval, 4-58, chipped their way through the Roosters' order.
Vandeheuval's four wickets takes his season tally to 14.
The Roosters' were 7-171 after 65 overs and while Matt Cations, 28 runs, and Drew Pearce, 27, boosted the lower order, the Pointies had regained complete control.
RAIN added a twist to play at City Oval.
Ballarat-Redan held on to secure a draw with Brown Hill when the game reverted to ordinary conditions from a 50-minute rain delay.
The Ballarat Electrical Bulls' impressive 334-run innings on day one offered little comfort _ their sole focus on day two was to oust the Combine order within 64 overs.
Gerard Maher and Jarrod Allan steadied the Combine with an 83-run second-wicket partnership.
Maher reached his half-century to post 51 runs (three fours), before he was bowled by Jason Knowles.
Matt Hoey and Lee Brown were at the crease for 15 overs when captains agreed to pull stumps at 4-151, 58 overs into the innings.
WENDOUREE emphatically near-doubled its target set by traditional rival Mt Clear at St Patrick's College.
The Red Caps' chase was already well underway, resuming at 2-76.
They equalled Mt Clear's 151-run innings, five wickets in hand, within 27 more overs and continued to reach 8-300 before pulling up stumps.
The Mounties had needed big wickets quickly and claimed key Red Caps Matt Skinner and captain Heath Pyke within three minutes of each other, 14 overs in.
Mounties' skipper Matt Goonan, in a rare bowling spell, snared his rival captain in a wicket maiden.
Then number five Red Cap Matthew Smith fired-up and squashed the Mounties' hopes.
Smith scored 66 runs (two sixes, eight fours) and formed 44-run partnerships with Andrew Pitson and Jon Barnett (50, not out) to seal the win.
A CHRIS Gardner century allowed East Ballarat to comfortably polish off Coronet City.
East, resuming at 1-56, used 48 overs to reach its 176-run target, four wickets down.
By then, Gardner had momentum and East kept batting so he could post 100 (1 six, 12 fours), not out, in its 6-296 innings.
Jeremy Collier supported Gardner with 31 runs (one six, four fours) in an 84-run partnership at the fifth wicket.
East 15-year-old Darcy Thomson, batting at number seven, added a handy 35 runs (five fours).
City still had some bite, claiming Tim Rieniets' scalp cheaply within four overs.
Paul Gannon bowled a tight 2-36 and eight maidens from 22 overs.
PETER Moore ripped apart Napoleons-Sebastopol's top and middle orders to help Darley to its first season win.
The Lions comfortably defended their innings by 82 runs at Napoleons.
Naps-Sebas, resuming at 0-3 and chasing 208, struggled to find any rhythm or solid partnerships.
They finished all-out for 126 runs within 57 overs.
Moore nabbed 5-51 from 22 overs, including wickets of Naps-Sebas openers Les Sandwith and Danny Carrol, and key batsman Jarrod Burns.
Naps-Sebas captain Dan Scott top scored with 24 runs with only four more team-mates scoring in double digits.
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