After winning the toss and electing to bat on a flat, Stirling Oval pitch, Queanbeyan is sitting at 6/316 with enough runs on the board to potentially lock up second spot on the ladder if they can finish Weston Creek off tomorrow.

Promoting Matt Grocott up the order to open the batting paid back dividends, with a solid knock of 80 plus, while English import Ed Barnard also found runs with a half century.

It was a great start to the weekend, however unfortunately the local side couldn't overcome Wests/UC the next day in their one-day semi final, going down by 57 runs.

Despite chipping in 30 runs with the bat and taking four wickets with the ball, captain Sam Taylor said losing the toss and batting second on a dying track made it tough going for his young side in the one day comp.

"It was probably a pitch you didn't really want to be batting on second, and unfortunately that's what we ended up doing," Taylor said.

"But the boys put in really well. We held Wests down to 240, and once again it was a good bowling performance and fielding performance from our boys, but we weren't exactly on song with the bat.

"And they did what they needed to do- slowed the ball down into the wicket and held us off really well. So full credit to them and good luck to them in the final," he said.

Despite the loss, Taylor is buoyant about the prospects of the young Queanbeyan side, who lost star talent in Jono Dean, Josh Bennett and Vele Dukoski last season and were widely predicted to struggle this year.

"We've been competitive all year," Taylor said. "And as we said to the boys, it was always going to be a learning year- we were written off right from the start [by opposition teams] to not to even make the finals.

"And we only just lost the T20 final, we're in the semi-finals of the one dayers and now we're in good stead in the two dayers and realistically, looking like one of the teams to beat.

"The boys have stood up really well and proved a lot of the critics wrong" he said.

Taylor put the ongoing fight and enthusiasm of his side down to a focus on the club's culture from team leaders and senior players.

"I think it's just trying to create an environment that feels as natural for the boys as possible. I think we've got an average age of 19, so I don't think you can get too serious with it; you've got to have a lot of fun with it, but at the same time playing hard, but enjoying it.

"And the boys have done that. Everyone's coming to training and wanting to improve. So it's about creating an environment where the boys want to show up to every week, and we've done that pretty well around the club. I think the whole club has changed this year which is good.

"This week it's just about icing the cake and hopefully taking a win against Weston Creek."