Goole's position at the top of division two is shared with Sewerby, who had a convincing eight-wicket win which knocked Rowntrees off the top of the rankings and slotted them into sixth place.

Rowntrees gave a debut to Sri Lankan Yohan Alazhapperuma, who repaid the selector's faith by making 41. Paul Horner (44) and Gerry Capelin (26) made decent scores at the top of the order, while Sean Marshall contributed 27 to an all out score of 180. Peter Baxter took 6-66 in 19.3 overs and Mark Vogel 3-58.

The visitors' attack posed no threat to the home batsmen as Chris Briggs masterminded an eight-wicket victory with an unbeaten 87.

He was well supported by Steve Staveley (50) and Mike Artley, who was unbeaten with 23 at the close.

Bolton Percy's overseas man Phil Salter was the difference between the two sides when his team had the better of a draw with Crayke.

The Victorian weighed in with 38 to add to Peter Houseman's 25, Alistair Rigby's 40 and Dave Randall's 26. Richard Wentworth claimed 3-64 and Mark Hutchinson 3-70 as Bolton just missed out on the fifth batting point at 199-9.

Paul Hutchinson (44) and Graeme Dawson (28) scored runs for Crayke, but Salter produced the best bowling in the game as his 4-54 pegged Crayke to 185-6.

Hovingham staged a marvellous recovery after slipping to 18-4 to overtake a Dringhouses' score of 189-7 and win by five wickets.

The York side were well served by Nigel Ling, who made 64 and Andy Kenyon, who was unbeaten with 45 as he blunted the threat of Tom Lund (3-49).

Spinner John Crowe then caused mayhem in the Hovingham batting ranks as four wickets fell for a mere 18 runs. Alistair Thorpe took control as, firstly with Oliver Wood (30) and then with Paul Deverall (35no) he wrestled the initiative from the home side.

Crowe eventually closed with figures of 3-52 but star billing went to Thorpe, who reached an unbeaten 101.

Updated: 11:30 Monday, May 16, 2005