It may have been a sunny Saturday morning, but Wanganui High School's First XI had their Friday Night Lights moment at Victoria Park.
As must always be so with college-based teams, the senior players took to No4 field knowing the final game of the Premier 1 one-day cricket competition meant their final match in school colours.
The fairytale connotations basically stop there as this was a depleted nine-man Saracens team they faced rather than daunting opposition.
Nevertheless, the WHS teenagers took what they could get with a 116-run victory, their second of the competition.
"It wasn't our fielding, we dropped probably four catches, it was applying ourselves with the batting," said WHS captain Sam Roebuck. "The younger guys just ticked it over.