If there was a biggest winner in round one, it was Napoleons-Sebastopol who's batting impressed in a Duckworth-Lewis match-up where they had to score an extra 40 more runs.

This week, Naps-Sebas go up against East Ballarat, who went down in the opening round to an improved Buninyong.

Naps-Sebas coach Dan Davies said to get an opening win was great, but a second win would do wonders for confidence around the club.

"Obviously we were pretty happy to start the season with a win, it was a long pre-season, we started back in August and the season kept getting extended.

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"Prior to last season we'd won two games in three years, if you take into account last year's final round win, it would be great for the club."

He said as a coach, while you could do your best to instill confidence, it was still up to the players to prove that to themselves.

"We had a lot of close games last season," he said. "All the sides who played finals we lost to them by under 20 runs, we beat Darley. You need close losses, but you need the close wins as well.

"You always talk to the players about confidence, but until you make that 100 or you beat the better sides, you can't manufacture it."

The team that Naps-Sebas defeated, Ballarat-Redan will be looking to bounce back hard against Golden Point, a team which also suffered an opening round loss against the powerful Wendouree.

Golden Point coach Daniel McDonald said his side had been smashed in all facets of the game in the first round, with the final score of 9-138 flattering his line-up which had slumped to 6-22.

"They have so much talent and with a white ball you've got 12-20 balls to strike and we weren't able to do that," he said.

"In every 50-over match you're going to get 10 chances. We had two chances early that we didn't take, and as we saw last year in the finals when Darley took their chances against Wendouree, they were able to get the job done.

"If we had have taken those chances, we might have held them to say 200, and our chase might have been a bit different."

McDonald said with just a top four this season, it would be crucial to get early wins on the board with this week's clash with Ballarat-Redan an acid test to see where his team sat in the pecking order.

"We've had some really good matches against them in the past and they've beaten us a couple of times," he said.

Wendouree and Buninyong will square off in a match that will show just how far Buninyong have come in the off-season.

Buninyong skittled East in 26 overs in round one, but they'll need to be at their best this week and pick up some early wickets against the talented Wendouree batting line-up.

Two of the other big opening round winners in North Ballarat and Darley will look to keep their good start to the season when they square up while at the other end of the ladder Mount Clear and Brown Hill will have both stewed over poor first-up games and will be looking to bounce back when they take on each other.