Hilton Cartwright played a lone BBL hand for the Melbourne Stars as the Hobart Hurricanes restricted the visitors to 7-131 at Blundstone Arena.
Cartwright hit eight of his teams' 12 boundaries off the bat with no other Star finding the rope until the 14th over.
The Hurricanes stand-in skipper Nathan Ellis (2-12) gave nothing away and Cartwright and James Seymour (20 off seven balls) were the only Stars to challenge the disciplined Hobart attack.
A third-wicket stand of 60 between Cartwright (57 off 47) and Beau Webster (27 off 35) stabilised the innings after both openers fell early.
Big-hitting import Joe Clarke was run out after a mix-up and Tom Rogers holed out to square leg In the fifth over.
At one stage, Cartwright struck six fours in the space of nine balls but the boundaries dried up for almost eight overs.
Webster, who struggled with his timing to find gaps, broke the drought with a scoop to fine leg, but was out soon after off a leading edge.
The Stars scored just nine runs off their two Power Surge overs.
Ellis used seven bowlers across the first 10 overs with fellow quicks Riley Meredith (2-25) and Faheem Ashraf (2-29) performing well.
