CENTRAL Highlands cricket region has announced its initial under-age boys' squads for the 2014-15 Victorian Bushrangers pathways season.

The squads of 26 will be reduced to 13 for state championships in Melbourne in January.

UNDER-18

Ryan Baker** (Gisborne/Kew), Sean Bourke** (North Ballarat), Bradley Croxford** (Bacchus Marsh), Terrence Curwen-King ** (Darley), Aaron Forward (Rupertswood), Joe Gingell** (Muckleford), Harli Givvens** (East Ballarat), Tom Hannett (Navarre), Billy Hoye** (Brown Hill), Tom Le Lievre** (Wendouree), Ash McCafferty (North Ballarat), Mathew North (St Andrew's). Austen Prendergast (Wendouree), Nathan Shoesmith** (Rupertswood), Rowan Stott (Romsey), Nicholas Strangio (Bacchus Marsh), Jayden Templeton (Laanecoorie-Dunolly), Blake Thomson** (East Ballarat), Zac Ticehurst (Darley), Jakob Tidyman** (Carisbrook), Stephen Treweek (Sunbury), Matthew Underwood** (Gisborne), Brandon Wagstaff** (Colts-Phelan), Daniel Walker** (North Ballarat), Jake Wilkie (Darley), Mitchell Zakynthinos** (North Ballarat)

UNDER-16

Aiden Beard** (Gisborne), Mitchell Bench (Colts-Phelan), Jack Cubley (Woodend), Sean Day (Romsey), Richard Dell** (Golden Point), Kane Farrell (Barkers Creek), Dylan Fenton (East Sunbury), Nathan Fowler (Wallan), Sam Graham** (Gisborne Dragons), Bailey Henderson** (Barkers Creek), Zac Hunter (Napoleons-Sebastopol), Dylan Landt** (Sunbury), Jack Lalor (Bacchus Marsh), Roby Lane** (Gisborne), Mitchell Lewis (Wallan), Ethan Marrow (Youth Club), Tom Millard (Derrinallum), Matthew Milne (Romsey), Brandon Nicholls (East Sunbury), Tom Rogers (Gisborne), Connor Ronan** (Golden Point), Darby Semmens** (Barkers Creek), Mackenzie Spark (East Ballarat), Nicholas Stuhldreier** (Bacchus Marsh), Tom Walton (Wendouree), Tom Williamson (Aradale)

UNDER-14

Henry Armstrong (Tatyoon), Hadley Bassett (Muckleford), Joel Cadman (Darley), Krishna Chandak (Aradale), James Doherty* (Ballarat-Redan), Dylan Graham (Ballan), Sam Harris (Golden Point), Matt Harris (Golden Point), Xavier Jenks (Bacchus Marsh), Harry Jones (Gisborne), Myles Lawrence** (Campbells Creek), Zack Maple** (Wendouree), Mitch Nicholson** (Ballarat-Redan), Dean O'Brien (Carngham), Connor Palmer** (Carngham), Joshua Pegg* (Golden Point), Jackson Perry (Golden Point), Lawson Prendergast (Wendouree), Ben Radford (Riddells Creek), Sam Ramsay (Gisborne), Jack Riding (North Ballarat), Harry Smith (Macedon), Jack Thornton (Ballarat-Redan), Ben Underwood (Macedon), Riley Vernon (Gisborne), Curtley Wilson (Ballarat-Redan)

* Eligible for age group for three years

** Eligible for age group for two years