Nestles, a 29-time division one men's champion, made history on Sunday as the first Warrnambool and District Cricket Association women's division premier.

Factory's defeat of cross-town rival West Warrnambool, which was by 54 runs at Mack Oval, came on the back of a strong performance across the park.

Nestles co-captains Brooke Herbertson and Shona Noske-Poulton were proud to add to the club's storied history.

"It's great to have our name on that first one," Herbertson said.

"We're so proud to be a part of the club and that history.

"It's great that we've had such success as well. We're an all-in-one club. It doesn't matter what grade you play, we're all training together, having fun together.

"It was great to have all the boys here supporting us. The guys at our club are great to us women. That's been really good."

Noske-Poulton said the side showed resilience to secure the triumph.

Nestles was 3-12 before Noske-Poulton arrived at the crease, but her 33-run stand and 72-run partnership with Vicky McPhee helped Factory to 5-94.

"At the start it wasn't really going our way, we lost a few early wickets. When we got out in the middle we were like 'all right, we've got a job to do'," Noske-Poulton said.

"We knew we could do it. We knew we just had to get our heads in the game - watch the ball, time it nicely and we'd be right.

"In the field, I have so much faith in our team. They're absolutely amazing. I had no doubt they could pull it off."

Herbertson said Nestles' junior female program - which produced a Renegades Girls Under 17 grand final side - was promising.

"We're just happy and thankful for them to come along on Sunday and fill some spots and have some fun," she said.

"If they didn't come along on a Sunday we'd have no pathway for them in the following years.

"We just want to keep pushing this so the younger generation do that pathway and chance to play.

"We want them to just be able to play the sport that they love."

She said the standard of the competition had improved dramatically across the board in its eight-round home-and-away season.

"Not just our side, but there's been massive improvement across the league," Herbertson said.

"Our girls have gone out each week and worked on one little thing and the next week, they've improved on that."

Warrnambool and District Cricket Association's Alicia Drew told The Standard female cricket was primed to thrive in coming years.

"In round one I was teaching girls how to bowl and where to bowl as they were coming in," she said.

"(On Sunday) the girls were giving me a bit of lip if I gave them out. They're always learning but just the way the girls think about the game now and where to field and stand has come a long way.

"Every week (WDCA chairman) Gordon (McLeod) and I are running into or ringing each other saying 'how good is this?' it's just been incredible."

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