WANGARATTA Magpies smacked 239 runs from 40 overs to run away convincing winners over Beechworth Wanderers.

The ‘Pies won the toss and elected to bat first with Cooper Matheson (21) getting their side to a reasonable start at 2/56.

But it was a Jack Davies masterclass that did the damage, slashing 82 not out from 96 deliveries, while he was well supported Kyle Winter-Irving's fast 57 from 44 balls.

Davies was stoked with his side’s efforts.

“We started well with the bat, put pressure on them and the run rate was good from the get go,” Davies said.

“Ollie (Andrew) and I had to knuckle down for a bit there but then when Kyle (Winter-Irving) came out all I had to do was get off strike because he was hitting them beautifully.

“He’s such a classy player, good in the field, hits a clean ball and is hard to get away when he’s bowling.”

Despite losing gun opener Kayde Surrey for just six, the Wanderers started well off the back of Jack Ryan’s 56 and Brenton Surrey’s 39.

However, both fell in reasonably quick succession and Beechworth would go on to lose 7/58 to be all out for 158, well short of their target.

Winter-Irving continued his stellar day, snagging figures of 4/32 from 7.2 overs.

“After the first 13 overs of their batting innings they were probably ahead,” Davies said.

“We stuck to our plans, kept the run rate down and started bowling to our fields and wickets came.

“We looked the better side from there but overall we felt like we were ahead of the game for most of the day.”

The Magpies now sit second with a 4-2 record, a great effort after losing players coming into this season.

“We’re on the positive side of the win, loss leger so we can’t complain,” Davies said.

“We had a high turn over of players coming into the year and weren’t sure how we were going to go so we’re happy at the moment.

“We’ve got classy players, guys like Coop Matheson, Ollie Andrew and Kyle Winter-Irving so we’re confident we can continue to win games.”