RED Caps pacemen Sam Peeters and Eamon Johnson tactfully picked apart Brown Hill on Saturday.

They shared nine wickets - Peeters taking 5-43, Johnson 4-50 - in this Ballarat Cricket Association club firsts' top of the ladder clash.

Peeters mopped up quickly, taking 4-0 off his last 10 balls.

This was a case of the mentor Johnson and his protege Peeters fine-tuning careful delivery placement on a dead and slow wicket.

Brown Hill resumed play on day two at 3-55 with a crucial partnership between opener Jack James and coach Dan Davies. Once the Red Caps broke them - James went first, dismissed via Peeters and caught behind on 34 runs - the game became about patience.

The Bulls sat 5-140 at tea and by 4.30pm, the Red Caps' work was done.

Davies fell to Johnson just after the break on 36 runs and, with captain Shane Harwood and key bats Jason and Ryan Knowles out on day one, it was left to the veteran Peter Kane to see the match out.

Kane was unbeaten on 44 runs as Paul White, Matt McMahon and Tom Bourke-Finn all went for ducks as victims of Peeters' sharp finish.

Now Wendouree will reign supreme in Ballarat Cricket Association firsts this Christmas.

BALLARAT-REDAN 257 d NORTH BALLARAT 203 at City Oval

BROTHERS Simon and Ryan Allan shared Ballarat-Redan's wicket bounty evenly.

The duo nabbed four wickets apiece to keep North Ballarat well at bay and guiding Ballarat-Redan to a 54-run victory. This has kept the Combine in touch with competition leaders moving into the yuletide break.

North Ballarat tried to start steady with young gun batsmen Mitch Zakynthinos and Jakob Tidyman resuming the chase. Zakynthinos (25 runs) was bowled out by Simon Allan to put the Roosters 2-42.

Simon Allan had tasted the Roosters' hesitation, quickly bowled out captain Leigh Lorenzen then had Matt Spratling dismissed lbw. Suddenly the Roosters were 4-46.

Tidyman hung on. He reached 39 runs off 114 deliveries before he was ousted by his former skipper Bobby Hind, who now leads the Combine.

Again, it was left to the Roosters' tail to try and revive the tally. Only, this time is was the seasoned Matt Cations who set the example.

Cations finished unbeaten on 46 runs, belting out six fours in his crease time.

Simon Allan finished with 4-22 off his 15 overs, Ryan Allan finished with 4-44 off 14 with Justin Marson, Darcy Jenkins and Hind also sharing the bulk of the Combine's overs.

GOLDEN POINT 3-136 d EAST BALLARAT 135 at Eastern Oval

POINT captain Josh White's stellar batting has carried his team to second on the ladder this Christmas.

White defied East Ballarat to carry the in-form Pointites to a seven-wicket win on their home turf.

Unbeaten on 56 runs, White's batting average in the firsts is 60 runs from seven starts in six rounds this season. His highest score was 111 runs against North Ballarat in round three, but his 66 runs in an upset of Mount Clear last round was pretty handy too.

White and Andrew Falkner picked up the chase at 1-32 on day two, having patiently and carefully whittled away overs to stay safe by stumps last week.

They made a 56-run partnership for the second wicket.

Simon Ogilvie stepped in where Falkner left off and added a handy 35 runs so by the time he fell, Point was 3-108 and needing 28 runs for the win.

Nathan Bagley helped his skipper polish off the match.

NAPOLEONS-SEBASTOPOL 134 and 5-60 d CORONET CITY 99 at Napoleons

LIAM Rigby is in ruthless form for Napoleons-Sebastopol.

Rigby captured six wickets to make his tally 11 scalps from the past two rounds.

His 6-31 effort against Coronet City has Rigby ranked equal third in wickets taken this season. He has amassed 17 - a feat matched by teammate Matt Ringin and Brown Hill duo Shane Harwood and Matt McMahon but beaten by Golden Point's Andrew Warrick (21 wickets) and Darley's Ryan Ali (18, not including day two figures).

City was left smouldering on 99 runs. Naps-Sebas held a 35-run lead at the first innings' end.

It was then left for Naps-Sebas to finish out the day with the bat.

Naps lost five wickets to put on another 60 runs - it lost its first three for 20 - and Jacob Eyers top-scored with 23 runs.

*No word from Darley on the Lions' clash against Mount Clear. The Mounties were already ahead in the first innings from day one, chalking up 8-102 in passing Darley's 76 runs.