Ringin believes the score is worth 300 on the thick outfield of Naps-Sebas, handing North Ballarat a sizeable task.

Napoleons-Sebastopol has had an interrupted start to the season being one of the unfortunate sides to cop a bye along with the early-season wash-outs, but Naps-Sebas will enter with confidence. Despite its winless record, it has taken 17-332 this season as the bowling attack holds its end of the bargain up.

“264 at Napoleons at this time of year is a massive score, it’s equivalent to 300 elsewhere,” Ringin said.

“With such a stop-start start to the year, it makes it hard to build any momentum.

“We’ve definitely got the bowling attack to keep them under that.”

The impressive first innings score was a much-needed response to the side’s horror day against Golden Point where it was rolled for 56 runs.

Ringin, who scored 46 runs last week, admitted it was a concern that the dismal day could haunt some batsmen, but he was pleased to see the response last week and said the side aimed to keep a positive attitude.

“That’s always a concern – especially since we haven’t got a win on the board.

“We spoke about gathering momentum in the game. Against Golden Point, we let them bowl a lot of maidens and dictate terms to us. So in this game we concentrated on just staying positive and rotating strike and accumulating a score and not necessarily dong anything special, just staying on the front foot of the game. 

“We’ve got a young team, so a big thing with a lot of young blokes is to keep a positive attitude about things and if you have a bad week just learn something from it.

“There’s always some sort of thought in the back of your head saying you could fail again. But you have to keep a positive outlook.”

Ringin said after a disjointed start to the year, the aim was to now enter the Christmas break with winning form and remain in touch with the core group of sides chasing a finals berth.

“If we can win here then another potential win against Mt Clear, if we play well, and all of a sudden we’re still with the pack.

“You just need to stay within striking distance and have a good second half of the year.”

Napoleons-Sebastopol will have its eye cast towards some key Roosters batsmen, with Matt Skeemer (average of 34.7) and Jason Crosbie (26) both key players to the batting line-up.