Tasmania have crushed Queensland by 183 runs at Bellerive to keep alive their slim chances of defending the Sheffield Shield title.
The Bulls collapsed early on day four and were 7-53 before Cameron Boyce (65) and Peter Forrest (37no) added some respectability.
But they never looked like chasing down their target of 333 after resuming at 1-11 and were all out for 149 soon after lunch.
Tigers left-armer Sam Rainbird had figures of 4-40 and Andrew Fekete 3-36 as the visitors struggled on a slow deck that made scoring difficult all match.
Boyce smacked nine boundaries and a six in a quickfire 56-ball knock for his highest first class score.
He and Forrest put on 83 before Boyce was caught in the deep at 8-136.
The Bulls were 3-23 when paceman Fekete found himself on a hat-trick for the second time in the match by removing opener Luke Pomersbach (15) and Nick Stevens (0).
From there it became a procession, keeper Chris Hartley completing a pair, before Boyce joined Forrest.
Twenty-one-year-old left-armer Rainbird has stepped up in James Faulkner’s absence and is now his side’s leading wicket-taker with 26 at 24.65 in his breakthrough season.
The Shield champions’ second outright win of the season, and first since November, takes them to 16 points on the table, but only a mathematical chance of making next month’s final with two matches to play.
Queensland, their opponents in last year’s decider, find themselves in an identical position.
Tasmania set up the victory with a patient first innings of 350 set up by former Test opener Ed Cowan’s 93.
The Bulls batting also let them down in the first innings when they lost 7-47 to be all out for 183, only opener Joe Burns (91no) passing 50.
Tigers former Test paceman Ben Hilfenhaus grabbed a career-first hat-trick in figures of 4-49.
Queensland skipper James Hopes did his best to wrest his side back into it with 5-59 in Tasmania’s second innings but the home side’s tail allowed a declaration at 9-165 and a tough run chase.
Queensland allrounder Ben Cutting didn’t bowl in the second innings after suffering a hamstring injury.



