An aggressive Peter Handscomb half-century has helped Victoria cruise to a three-wicket win against Tasmania in the domestic one-day competition opener.
Chasing 225, Handscomb top-scored with 51 from 42 balls as the Vics reached 7-229 with 31 balls to spare.
Tasmania's batsmen got bogged down - all out on the last ball of their 50 overs for 224 - at the Junction Oval in St Kilda.
And their host Handscomb, along with opener Tom Rogers, deliberately avoided the same trap in their run chase.
Rogers struck five fours and a six in making 45 from 49 balls and laid a solid platform - when out in the 19th over, the Vics were well-placed at 3-110.
Handscomb's knock featured seven fours and a six before emerging 20-year-old Campbell Kellaway played a composed hand, the left-hander making 46 from 71.
Victoria's Will Sutherland sealed victory with a cameo of 29 runs from 20 balls, including a six to finish the match.
Tasmania's Billy Stanlake (2-61) and Beau Webster (2-17, four overs) were multiple wicket-takers.
Earlier, the Tigers' top-order batsmen struggled against miserly pace bowling from Scott Boland (2-30) and Fergus O'Neill (1-36).
Opener Caleb Jewell (13 from 16) was out in the fifth over, as Boland, from around the wicket, enticed an outside edge to Sutherland, who completed a sharp ankle-high catch at second slip.
Two balls later, in a fresh Boland over, the paceman trapped Mac Wright lbw for a duck and Jordan Silk (11 from 34) soon followed.
Jake Weatherald, opening for the Tigers for the first time since leaving South Australia, made 28 from 61 deliveries but fell to Sam Elliott (2-53).
Weatherald's dismissal left Tasmania wobbling at 4-72 in the 23rd over.
Webster answered the crisis call, hitting nine fours and a six in an impressive counter-punch despite fringe Test spinner Todd Murphy conceding only 32 runs from his 10 wicketless overs.
Webster was supported by Matthew Wade (25 from 51) and Mitchell Owen (16 from 22) as he lifted the Tigers, helped by a late flurry from Sam Rainbird (21 from 15).
