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Match Day 22nd June 2002

MORECAMBE AND DARWEN PULL AWAY

By Gerry Wolstenholme

The two teams at the top of the First Division table pulled away after Saturday's results as both won while their nearest challengers lost.

Leaders Morecambe picked up their ninth win in 10 games as they defeated last year's champions Netherfield who batted first and made 104. Craig Walmsley, 27, and Tommy Prime, 25, started well but then Ramesh Powar, 6-31, and Peter Stephens, 4-39, finished the innings off. Morecambe's reply was built around Mark Woodhead's 38 not out as the home side reached 105-3 to win by seven wickets.

Darwen meanwhile were the day's earliest finishers as they polished off Blackpool by 4-33pm at a sunny Stanley Park. Blackpool made a meagre 57 all out with Andrew Mercer taking 3-21 from 19 overs and Jeff Hacking finishing the innings with a hat-trick to return 3-0 from five balls. Darwen made short shrift of making 59-1 to win by nine wickets.

The day's other winners were Chorley and Lancaster who notched their first victory of the season. They visited Leyland and, batting first, made 212-7 with Renier Munnik making 106 not out. Leyland's reply relied on Neil Rimmer who made 66 but Ben Simm took 5-39 to finish them off for 193 to give his side victory by 19 runs.

Chorley meanwhile saw off luckless Preston who were bowled out for only 108 at Windsor Park. Neil Senior made 41 not out as Chorley replied with 110-5 to gain a five wicket victory.

The other two games were drawn. Kendal made 202-9, Steve Cooper top scoring with 70 and Geoff Love taking 5-42, and the St Annes reply was cut short by rain at 92-8 with Love on 45 not out. And Fleetwood had to settle for a draw at Leyland Motors as the home side made 194 thanks to James Aspinwall's 56. Zac Taylor had his first good return for Fleetwood with 4-36. Fleetwood's reply revolved around Ghulam Bodi who made 54 but he could not take his side to victory as they finished on 162-6.

Results in brief (home side in bold):

Blackpool 57 (38.5 overs) (Hacking 3-0, Mercer 3-21), Darwen (13.3 overs) 59-1

Blackpool 0 points, Darwen 12 points

Preston 108 (39.1 overs), Chorley 110-5 (53.1 overs) (Senior 41*)

Preston 0 points, Chorley 12 points

Kendal 202-9 (57 overs) (Cooper 70, Love 5-42), St Annes 92-8 (36 overs) (Love 45*)

Rain stopped play

Kendal 8 points, St Annes 3 points

Lancaster 212-7 (57 overs) (Munnik 106*), Leyland 193 (53 overs) (Rimmer 66, Simm 5-39)

Lancaster 15 points, Leyland 3 points

Leyland Motors 194 (55.2 overs) (Aspinwall 56, Taylor 4-36), Fleetwood 162-6 (60 overs) (Bodi 54)

Leyland Motors 7 points, Fleetwood 5 points

Netherfield 104 (46.4 overs) (Powar 6-31, Stephens 4-39), Morecambe 105-3 (36 overs) (Woodhead 38*)

Netherfield 0 points, Morecambe 12 points

BAY 96.9 NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE

DIVISION ONE

Club P W15 W12 D4 D1 L NR4 BP Pts
Morecambe 10 1 8 0 0 0 1 0 115
Darwen 10 2 4 2 0 0 2 6 100
Netherfield 10 2 2 1 0 2 3 6 76
Fleetwood 10 1 2 1 2 2 2 13 66
Kendal 10 2 1 1 0 3 3 8 66
Blackpool 10 2 0 2 1 4 2 10 57
Chorley 10 1 1 1 2 3 2 9 50
Leyland 10 0 2 0 0 5 3 10 46
Lancaster 10 1 0 1 3 3 2 15 45
Leyland Motors 10 1 0 2 0 5 2 14 45
St Annes 10 1 0 0 4 2 3 12 43
Preston 10 0 0 1 0 6 3 9 25

ACTION REPLAY

DARWEN SPELLS DISASTER AT STANLEY PARK!

Blackpool 57 all out Darwen 59-1

By Gerry Wolstenholme

It was an afternoon, or more accurately a part afternoon, of disaster for Blackpool at Stanley Park on Saturday as Darwen comprehensively beat them in their Northern Premier League game. The visitors won the toss and put Blackpool in to bat on a track that had a decidedly green tinge about it. The result was some good bowling by Andrew Mercer, Keith Semple, Gareth Cordingley and Jeff Hacking and some rank bad batting by Blackpool that ended with the home side being bowled out for a measly 57. And that took 38.5 overs! Darwen's reply lasted just 13.3 overs by which time they had secured their victory with 59-1.

The afternoon started brightly enough for Blackpool as makeshift opener Paul Danson clipped the first ball of the game off his legs to the mid-wicket boundary. The omens looked good but little was it known that it was to be one off only four strikes

Danson had only added two to his total when he became the first wicket to fall with the total at 12. He played at a ball from Semple, got an edge and Graham Parkinson behind the stumps did the rest. Stephen Croft came in, hit one boundary and then departed as a ball that kept low from Mercer trapped him in front of his stumps and that was 19-2.

It was 20-3 when Mercer bowled Chris Simcock for eight and 23-4 when Chris Barrow edged Semple through to the reliable Parkinson. Steve Mercer hit one boundary in his six before he departed, caught by Parkinson when thinking of withdrawing his bat to a ball from Mercer that was leaving him. That was 32-5 and it was 37-6 when Gareth Cordingley comprehensively bowled Mark Griffiths before he had scored.

Karl Marsland also failed to trouble the scorers as he edged Cordingley to Semple at first slip and that was 39-7. The best stand of the innings followed as Mark Lomas, who had watched much of the disaster from the other end, and Marcus Sharp tried to repair the damage. Eighteen runs were added before Sharp, having played most watchfully for his two, edged Jeff Hacking through to Parkinson. The miserable 57-8 then became 57 all out in the space of two further balls as Hacking completed his hat-trick.

Dave Cresswell, surprisingly recalled from semi-retirement, and Martin Hackett failed to get their bats to the ball and both fell leg before wicket. Lomas, who had battled for 80 balls without ever really looking in control, ended with 20 not out as Blackpool found themselves 57 all out. Mercer ended with 3-21 from his 19 overs, Semple 2-16, Cordingley 2-16 and Hacking with the astonishing figures of 0.5-0-0-3!

After an early tea Darwen's Gary Jackson avoided a third golden duck by surviving his first ball from Sharp. This earned him hearty applause from his team-mates. Thereafter he took a single and then clipped Croft nicely through mid-wicket for four. That stroke must have had the kiss of death on it for next ball he edged Croft through to Hackett who took the easy catch. He was gone for five and it was 5-1.

But that was the limit of Blackpool's success as Mark Hadfield, 23 not out from 31 balls with four fours, and Semple, 27 not out from 42 balls with one savagely pulled six and one four took Darwen to victory at 59-1. And it was only 4.33pm!

There were efforts (in jest) of trying to get the two teams to play the Sunday Cup tie after the main event had ended so that the following day could be a rest day. But it was all over and the spectators had to wind their way home very early on one of the sunnier days of the summer so far. One spectator who had to baby-sit for the evening must have had an insight into what was going to happen. His family had told him that he had to be back by six o'clock. And without knowing who was to be batting he had said "Oh, don't worry, it will be over by 5-30!" How wrong could he be? He had overestimated by almost an hour!

The early finish gave those Darwen players who were staying over in Blackpool for a night out to start their revelries earlier than planned but skipper Jeff Hacking did give them a warning parting shot. "We want to be up for it tomorrow and I expect you all to be fighting fit" was his comment. To which the players all agreed!

Division Two Results in brief (home team in bold):

Blackpool 169-8 (50 overs) (Munir 56), Darwen 170-4 (47.1 overs) (Bateson 58, Brown 40)

Blackpool 1 point, Darwen 12 points

Leyland Motors 185-7 (Totham 74)(50 overs), Fleetwood 188-5 (Latus 39*, Sherlock 39*)(34.4 overs)

Leyland Motors 2 points, Fleetwood 12 points

Leyland 141-8 (50 overs) (Namajee 52, Walsh 48, Stoddart 5-25), Lancaster 142-3 (34.5 overs) (Johnstone 87, Marshall 40*)

Leyland 0 points, Lancaster 12 points

Morecambe 155 (49.5 overs) (Lee 5-11), Netherfield 44-7 (30 overs) - rain stopped play

Morecambe 6 points, Netherfield 4 points

Preston 142-9 (Greenwood 43, Mann A 40, Catterall D 5-18)(50 overs), Chorley 143-3 (Richardson 46, Hotham 45*)(43 overs)

Preston 0 points, Chorley 12 points

Kendal 165-8 (50 overs) (Couperthwaite 64, Booth 6-45), St Annes 169-1 (30 overs) (Bradley R 121*)

Kendal 1 point, St Annes 12 points

BAY 96.9 NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE

DIVISION TWO

Club P W15 W12 D4 D1 L NR4 BP Pts
Lancaster 10 2 3 2 0 1 2 11 93
Fleetwood 10 1 4 2 0 2 1 13 88
Morecambe 10 2 3 1 1 1 2 8 87
Netherfield 10 3 2 0 1 1 3 5 87
Darwen 10 0 4 0 2 2 2 5 63
St Annes 10 0 4 0 1 3 2 2 59
Leyland 10 1 1 2 1 3 2 6 50
Preston 10 2 0 0 2 4 2 8 48
Chorley 10 1 2 0 0 6 1 4 47
Kendal 10 0 2 1 1 4 2 8 45
Leyland Motors 10 0 1 1 0 6 2 7 31
Blackpool 10 0 1 1 1 6 1 7 28

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