WEEK 6 Saturday and Sunday, May 31 and June 1 Division One ALL-ROUNDER Craig Nicholl guided Ovington to an impressive 102-run win against Stockton & Hopgrove. Because of York Races, Saturday’s match was switched to the University of York but the move didn’t disturb Nicholl who lifted the champions to 176-8 with 53 from 52 deliveries. He was out in the penultimate over, remarkably one of five run outs in the Ovington innings – Tom Ashby (7), Barry Steel (18), David Cole (4) and Ben Busby (1) being the others. Rich Grimes took 3-62 for Stockton whose most impressive bowler was Colin Gonsalves who had figures of 8-4-13-2. Nicholl then removed four of the top five Stockton batsmen on his way to 4-23 as the Hopgrove men were rolled over for 74. Nicholl would have had five victims but somehow when he struck Thejakith Rodrigo’s leg stump the bails stayed on, Rodrigo being there at the end on 26 not out. Bishopthorpe held on to top spot despite losing by 24 runs on a damp pitch at North Cave where James Windeatt, dropped before scoring, smashed 75 in which he cleared the ropes seven times. He was last man out as Cave totalled 146, 17-year-old Martin Riley (4-22) and second team regular Jamie Blackburn (4-44) spearheading the visitors’ attack. Bishopthorpe’s middle order struggled against John Buttle (4-25) and Mike Stellings (3-43) and although Rory Watson provided a flourish at the end with 18 from 13 deliveries, the visitors fell short. An opening partnership of 96 by Phil Smith (57no) and Matt Walker (45) powered Kelfield to a nine-wicket victory at North Duffield who had been bowled out for 135. Only three Duffield batsmen made double figures, Trevor Britain (49) and Paul Johnson (39) being the only ones to handle the conditions. The triple bowling attack of Sam Dunn (3-28), David Stephenson (3-39) and Walker (3-41) did the business for Kelfield. Thixendale, last year’s division two champions, are firmly anchored at the bottom after conceding their game with Fulfordgate. Division Two BEN Johnson have opened up a big lead after defeating Clifton Alliance by six wickets. Clifton were bowled out for 109, Steve Wragg taking 5-29 and Scott Carlton, playing for the first time in two years, bowling the last three Clifton men in only four deliveries. Zac Loveley was Alliance’s top scorer with 22 not out. Nicky Drew (45no) saw the printers home with three overs in hand. Heworth recovered from 50-4 to post 147-5 against Askham Bryan thanks to experienced pair Greg Sykes (49no) and Pete Fairburn (48). Pete Thornton put in a terrific stint for Askham with figures of 12-7-10-3 on a sticky track but his side paid for dropping too many chances. Another old hand, Dave Baker, then took 5-20 as Askham were all out for 113, Adrian Speakman scoring 57. Selby spinner Meg Jones took 5-66 and Gareth Pearce (106) hit seven sixes and seven boundaries in the day’s only century but Selby still lost at South Cave. Despite Jones’ efforts Cave made 156, Oliver Pierce making 55. Pearce then led the counter attack in fine style but once he was out the Selby innings, which included a couple of run outs, fizzled out. Anuj Bahl finished with 3-15 for Cave. Nine-man Melbourne outgunned Stillingfleet by 40 runs with all-rounder A J Clarke to the fore. Stillingfleet suffered after flooring a caught and bowled chance off Clarke, who went on to open his shoulders and crack 45 after Matt Beevers had contributed 40. Phil Johnson took 4-30 for Fleet whose Chris Gill also bowled well in his first match of the season. Stillingfleet made an awful start t their reply, being three down with only eight on the board before limping to 40-5. Rob Murray’s 46 got them to 118 all out at the close as Harry Collins (4-23) and Clarke (3-20) made the most of a bowler-friendly wicket. The Hirst Courtney v Westow game was not played because the pitch was waterlogged. Division Three EIGHT-MAN Bishopthorpe II defied all the odds to snatch a tie in a low-scoring thriller at Malton & Old Malton. Steve Oldfield took 4-16 and Ollie Varey 3-22 as Bish could only muster 49 in 13.4 overs – 24 of those coming from the evergreen John Latimer. The tone was set from the off as 79-year-old opener Geoff Deighton was out for a duck in the first over. However, the village side’s bowlers responded brilliantly as Jamie Mackie (4-13) and 16-year-old left-armer Alex Bindloss (3-4) tore through the opposition. When Doug Bentley was out for 19, Malton had slid to 37-6 and entered the final over needing four to win with the last pair at the crease. Steve Varey hit the ball over the Bishopthorpe fielders but it didn’t make the boundary and Malt tied the scores by running three. Number 11 Sammy Heslop was then bowled by Latimer (3-30) from the final ball. Ovington II’s Harry Buckley hit six sixes in his match-winning unbeaten 64 against Wheldrake. Coming in at five down, he peppered the boundary after Les Fearn’s 12-3-26 had made inroads with Dave Fearn and Martin Lambert also striking twice each. Ovngton totaled an unlikely 189-7. With Anthony Carter (57) and Lambert (51) at the crease, Wheldrake looked fairly well placed at 104-2, but Carter played on against Sam Prangnell and Lambert was run out by a sharp piece of fielding. That changed the dynamic of the game and Jonathan Souch came on near the end to finish the game with 4-34, Ovington winning a fine game by nine runs. Carl Marsden’s 5-17 set up Yapham’s ten-wicket win against Askham Bryan II at Bishop Wilton. Askham could only manage 79 which proved easy meat for Yapham openers Mark Fairey (35no) and Paddy Corkery (23no), who knocked the runs off in 15.2 overs. Stockton & Hopgrove II emerged from a close finish against Dunnington as one-wicket winners. Josh Archer (42) and S Capewell (37no) lacked back up as Dunnington were bowled out for 109, Keiran Ross taking 4-19. Archer then took 3-18 and Stockton were in trouble at 44-6 and 90-7, but Simon Duckett (29) and Simon Kale (27) applied themselves well to help Stockton over the line. Hemingbrough came unstuck at Acomb on Sunday, losing by seven wickets. Dan Littlewood (4-37) and Freddie Littlewood (3-19) proved a real handful for Hemingbrough whose Jonathan Lister top scored with 34 in a way below par total of 99. Steve Lennox (31no) then led Acomb to a routine victory. Division Four POCKLINGTON’S improvement continued with a crushing ten-wicket win at Selby II where Pete Eastwood produced outstanding figures of 12-4-19-6. With Jed Vale weighing in with 9-4-19-3 and Jack Watson claiming the other wicket, Selby were hustled out for just 51. Elliot Newby (34no) and James Baker (19no) made light work of the challenge as Pock romped home with 26.4 overs to spare. Tadcaster Magnet put in a fine bowling performance to see Malton & Old Malton II all out for 116. Malt lost their first wicket with the score on six and they lost wickets regularly on their way to 50-5 before a well-constructed 23 by Will Scofield lifted his side into triple figures. Andy Shepherd, Sam Ward, Ben Prudhoe and Taylor Shann took two wickets apiece for Tad. Mick Liversidge’s 4-30 checked Tadcaster’s progress to their target, taking they key wicket of Adam Gibson. At 96-6 the game was finely poised but Nicky Lyons (13no) and Shann (11no) regrouped to earn their side a solid victory. Burn II cut it a bit fine before defeating Burton Salmon by two wickets. They did the hard work by bowling out Salmon for 105, Dan Montgomery taking 3-33 while Ed Westhead (27) and Adrian Davies (24) were about the only batsmen to deal with the Burn attack. A good second-wicket partnership between Ben Steward and Mark Webster (22) seemed to be steering Burn to a comfortable victory until a flurry of wickets set up a tense finale. However, experienced campaigners Eric Montgomery and Neil Williams held their nerve to seal victory for Burn. Paul Ward returned 3-20 for Burton Salmon. Des Healey was in good nick as Stamford Bridge enjoyed back-to-back weekend wins. He made 60 against Thorp Arch & Boston Spa on Saturday and 57 against Thorpe Willoughby II the next day. Against TABS, Healey was supported by Stuart Fraser (37) as Bridge totaled 191-8, Alex Williams taking 3-35 and Robert White 3-51. Thorp Arch were never really in the chase, 27 of their 125 all out coming in the form of extras as Tom Lawson took 4-22 and Rob Gilyeat claimed 3-18 from 11 overs. Bridge and Healey took their good form into the next day when they beat Thorpe Willoughby II by 72 runs. Healey’s half-century and 33 from Graham Tipping saw Bridge to 154-7, Aftab Gull bowling well for his 5-29. Thorpe Willoughby could only mahe 82 all out in reply, Muhammed Areeb top scoring with 37. Dan Hunter led the Bridge bowling honours with 3-21. Heworth II’s home game with Ovington III fell victim to a waterlogged pitch. HPH Cup Round 1 HEWORTH edged out South Cave & Brantingham by the narrowest of margins after the sides finished with level scores at the Bull Field. They went into the second round by virtue of losing less wickets after the sides scored 152 each. Batting first, Heworth lost their first three wickets for just one run and were still be deep trouble at 55-6. However, Pete Fairburn and Greg Sykes pushed the score up to 129 before Fairburn was bowled for 40 by Barry Cray (3-34). Sykes batting at number eight, finished unbeaten on 59 as Heworth took tea on 152-7. Oliver Pierce (69no) led the run chase and Cave entered the final over needing nine to win with seven wickets down. Skipper Tony Scotter hit a huge six to bring the scores level but in trying to repeat the feat hit the last delivery of the match to short mid-on and was run out. There were runs galore at Kelfield where the home side were beaten by six runs by Clifton Alliance. Ali Wray (63), Lewis Clark (44no) and Richard Marshall (40) provided the backbone for Clifton’s imposing 227-5. Kelfield made a brave fist of it with Matt Walker (40) and Andy Charlton (31) leading the way, but Wray’s 6-62 reduced them to 179-7. Neil Atkinson and Ryan Lorryman, who both his 29 not out, gave the Kelfield innings fresh momentum but they fell just short. North Duffield produced a brilliant bowling performance to knockout Melbourne. At 101-2 Duffield looked on course for a challenging total but the collapsed in dramatic fashion, losing four wickets for the addition for only one run, eventually having to settle for 126-8 at the close. Brian Underwood was the man who undermined the Duffield innings with 5-30. Duffield didn’t have many runs to play with but James Knibb (5-23) ripped out the top half of the Melbourne line-up and fourth change bowler John Patrick mopped up the rest with figures of 3.4-0-13-5 as Melbourne were wrapped up for just 89 in 21.4 overs. Hirst Courtney pulled off a surprise by beating Stockton & Hopgrove by 40 runs. It was a great return to the captaincy for Phil Alford who held the Hirst innings together with 62 spanning 33 overs to get his side to 153-7 at tea, Kalum Perera taking 3-14 for Stockton. Tom Williams (30) and Jamie Kerrison (28) had Stockton in good order but once they had gone, only Perera (23no) showed any form and Stockton were all out for 113. Alford led from the front with 4-29 from his ten overs while two five over spells by James Hinchliffe earned him 3-29. Scothern Construction Cup Round 1 HEWORTH II wrapped up their 10-wicket win against Stockton & Hopgrove II in just 25.5 overs. Ten-man Stockton were routed for just 32 – 22 of those from the blade of Rich Horsman – as six batsmen failed to trouble the scorers. Danny Wilstrop (3-5) and Stuart Ross (3-18) did the bulk of the damage with Jamie Ross and Steve Sissons getting a wicket each and a run out accounting for the other wicket to fall. Heworth openers Dan Davison (24no) and Ryan Whitley (9no) cantered home in less than ten overs. Wheldrake opted to bat first against Dunnington but were son regretting the decision as skipper Martin Lambert dragged a wide delivery from Sam Gray (5-37) on to his stumps. Wheldrake only reached 120-9 thanks to a generous contribution of 37 from extras and a knock of 34 by Les Fearn. Josh Salter (51) and fellow opener Haydn Bradley (35no) were virtually untroubled as they led Dunnington towards their target with nine overs in hand. Palbinder Mann took a consolation 3—42 for Wheldrake. Tadcaster Magnet proved too strong for Ovington III in the battle of this season’s newcomers. Magnet totaled 159-9 with Adam Gibson, Scott Collins, Charlie Marr and skipper Micky Voyse all making 20s. They were 37-3 but Gibson (24) and Collins (20) got them to 81-6 before Voyse (25) and under-13 player Marr (23) added a half-century partnership for the eighth wicket. Steve Puckering had the best return for Ovington with 3-32. Ovington’s batsmen didn’t stick around too long against Gibson (4-37) and were all out for 112, the York side losing by 47 runs. Malton & Old Malton conceded to Yapham and their second team did likewise to Thorpe Willoughby.
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