A TROPHY treble is still in the offing for York Cricket Club as they come to terms with their first defeat of the campaign.

The Clifton Parkers bowed out of the ECB National Club Championship on Sunday after an area final defeat by West Indian Cavaliers, of the Nottingham Premier League.

However, the club are still in pole position for an unprecedented fourth Solly Sports Yorkshire ECB County Premier League title, having taken an 18-point lead at the top.

Captain Marcus Wood and his men have also booked their place in the semi-finals of the League Cup and the final of the Black Sheep Yorkshire Champions Trophy.

Their dreams of an incredible quartet were dashed by a lack of runs against a Cavaliers side boasting former England Test bowler Alex Tudor.

Having won the toss in Sunday’s clash, York quickly lost openers Liam McKendry and Duncan Snell with only ten runs on the board.

Simon Mason and Alex Collins added 56 for the third wicket before Mason was bowled, four runs short of his half-century.

A further stand between Collins and Nick Kay added 58 before Kay was caught in the deep for 35. Nine runs later, Collins was clean bowled having made 32.

Wood made 27 and Tom Pringle made 16, but the remaining batsmen were dismissed cheaply and York were bowled out in 41.1 overs for 185.

The total was about 50 fewer than their ideal target score and, to make matters worse, 23 deliveries were unused.

However, the home side’s spirits were lifted when Peter Groves took a wicket with his second ball. Five overs later, Morteza Ali gave Tom Bartram a return catch with the score on 21.

Dominic Williamson and skipper Aaron Thomas then added 46 for the third wicket.

A further stand between Williamson and Alex Tudor added 42 before Williamson was run out for 47.

Tudor, however, having played himself in carefully, increased his score by punishing the bad balls with boundaries.

Pringle, returning for a second spell, had him lbw four runs short of his half-century, with the score having reached 148-6 in the 36th over and the game hung in the balance.

York’s top four bowlers had completed their allocations and that proved the deciding factor.

The visitors’ seventh-wicket pair, Patrick Gada and Tinashe Panyangara, took a liking to the medium pace of Kay and Snell, propelling their side to victory with 15 deliveries to spare.

York will bid to get back on track this weekend with a Yorkshire League double header at Yorkshire Academy on Saturday and at home to Cleethorpes on Sunday.