PICKERING Town and Selby Town suffered a blows to their Northern Counties East League premier division promotion hopes.

The Pikes went down 2-0 at Mickleover Sports, where Carl Cunningham scored both goals, while the Robins crashed 4-3 at Flaxley Road to Ossett Albion.

Danny Toronczak dented Selby's hopes with a hat-trick which kept Albion at the top of the table. The first half produced six goals with Matty Wain opening the scoring for Selby after only five minutes.

Micky Norbury, the former Scarborough player, equalised a minute later and the visitors went in front with the first of Toronczak's goals. Joe Gaughan equalised for Selby before Toronczak and Gaughan traded goals to make it 3-3 at half-time.

Toronczak completed his hat-trick to bag maximum points for Albion.

Goole suffered at the hands of a hat-trick man - Richard Carington scoring all the goals as Sheffield kept themselves in the promotion picture with a 3-0 win.

Harrogate Railway lost 2-1 at Glapwell, Damien Henderson netting for Railwayl after Jamie Morgan and James Dooley had given Glapwell a 2-0 lead.

Tadcaster Albion's poor season continued with a 1-0 home defeat at the hands of Garforth, Kirk Frost getting the decisive strike.

Harrogate Town were beaten 3-1 at promotion-chasing Droylsden in their UniBond League premier division encounter.

Byrne fired Droylsden ahead on 28 minutes, but Colin Hunter netted a 57th minutes equaliser only for Burke to restore the home side's lead two minutes later and Salmon wrapped up the points five minutes from the end

Updated: 10:38 Monday, March 29, 2004