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Aldbrough St John take advantage of others’ inactivity
Newroc Homes Darlington
& District League
WITH only three games in Division
A surviving the ravages of
the weather in the Newroc
Homes Darlington and District
League, Ingleton and Aldbrough
St John were able to take full advantage
of others' inactivity and
forge ahead at the top of the
fledgling league table.
But their wins came in vastly
differing ways, Aldbrough overpowering
their hapless victims,
but Ingleton scraping home by
the skin of their teeth.
The new leaders couldn't have
expected such a close run thing
when bowling out visitors Cockerton
for just 102, with veteran
Chris Dent proving that age shall
not weary them as he claimed
five victims, including key run
maker Paul Dickinson (40).
Grant Sowerby (4-28) was Dent's
powerful ally in the bowling
stakes.
The home team struggled
throughout their chase as David
Glew (4-19) and Graham Bates
(3-20) held the upper hand, and
it took a match-winning flourish
from number ten John Boocock,
who made a priceless 22 not out,
to ease Ingleton to victory by the
narrowest of margins, Dent stoic
on 0 not out.
No such traumas for Aldbrough
St John, as they dominated
their game at Rockliffe Park.
Mike Priestley (67no), David
Mathias (44) and Rory Wood (37)
were all in free-flowing form as
Aldbrough posted a useful looking
164-5 on a slow surface. And
then Mathias applied the coup
de grace with a spell of 5-16, Jack
Stapleton (2-20) and John Hoyle
(2-20) gratefully picking up the
late order crumbs as Park hit the
rocks for just 57.
Over at Eryholme, the demon
donkey-dropper was at it again
as he dismantled Spennithorne
to prove massively influential in
securing his side's first victory
since promotion to the top flight.
The visitors just had no answer
to Charlie Walker's guile - or perhaps
that should be had no patience
- as they tried to launch
him into the next parish with a
singular lack of success, all his
seven wickets coming courtesy
of catches.
Ian Hunter (3-43) struck some
key early blows before Walker
bamboozled the opposition to
finish with 7-42. It was then over
to Marcus Clark (35no) and
James Hornby (29) to guide Eryholme
to a welcome eight-wicket
success.
With the games betweenTrimdon
and Barningham, Lands and
Barton, and Middleton-in-Teesdale
and Middleton St George
unable to start because of waterlogged
pitches, Ingleton head the
table with 44 points, Aldbrough
lie second with 42, with Spennithorne
well back in third with
28.
In Division B, runs were at a
premium with only three out of
12 teams breaching the hundred
barrier. Early season leaders
Dales came down to earth with a
bump as Haughton shot them
out for 37, the ensuing eight
wicket win propelling them into
an early pole position, Michael
Lunn being chief executioner
with 5-11.
Rockliffe Park II were in equally
rampant mood as they disposed
of Brompton-on-Swale for
69, Ben Wade doing the damage
with 5-8, before Tom Dell (37no)
ensured a clinical nine wicket
success that took Park equal top
with Haughton.
2:52pm Friday 9th May 2008
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