HOPES for a fairy tale state final finish in the Wendouree camp quickly unravelled.

Bentleigh Uniting was better prepared for this Cricket Victoria Statewide Twenty20 Cup decider at Eastern Oval on Sunday afternoon.

More organised and more disciplined, Bentleigh Uniting kept Wendouree to 123 runs and then hunted down the Red Caps inside 15 overs, losing three wickets on the way.

And synthetic-based Bentleigh Uniting rarely even play on turf.

Wendouree captain Matt Smith said it was a disappointing way to end the tournament after such a strong state finals series this summer.

"To get to here is an achievement. We've played about 20 players through the tournament and that's a credit to the development that's going on behind the scenes at the club," Smith said.

"It just wasn't enough - we couldn't get away from them when we were batting and we couldn't contain them with the ball.

"They looked like they came up here with a plan and they really just blew us out of the water."

Opposing captain Glenn Lalor insists the only hardened plans his team had for this game were in the bus ride together as a team.

"We've just got some really good players," Lalor said.

Bentleigh Uniting's Michael De Iacovo was named man of the match.

De Iacovo headlined the chase with an unbeaten 75 runs off 51 balls, and fittingly belting out the winning boundary before embracing his skipper in a celebratory hug mid-way down the wicket.

Red Cap bowlers had too formidable a job to stop Bentleigh Uniting.

The damage was made in their rapid batting collapse.

Experienced batsman Heath Pyke was the only Red Cap to make a statement at the crease.

Pyke made 49 runs off 44 deliveries before he was run out.

Key bat Cole Roscholler anchored the innings with a handy 28 runs but a dangerous and even Bentleigh Uniting bowling attack gave following Red Caps no room to move.

Once De Iacovo started firing with a four and two consecutive sixes early in his stanza, Bentleigh Uniting only needed to keep supplying him with support acts.