Match Day 16th July 2005 RECORDS TUMBLE - BUT TOP FOUR ONLY DRAW By Gerry Wolstenholme There were runs galore in the weekend's programmes and a couple of batting records were broken but last week's top four clubs could only manage draws and this allowed Morecambe and Blackpool, both of whom won along with Barrow, to move into the top five. At Parkside Road Netherfield opened with a partnership that was one short of the League record as Craig 'The Worm' Walmsley and Pierre de Bruyn blasted the Fleetwood attack that was short of Dave Fish, away on holiday. When Walmsley was out for a new League amateur batting record of 171 the pair had put on 258. Walmsley's 171 included 21 fours and seven sixes and de Bruyn went on to make 112 not out including 11 fours and one six. Netherfield declared when Chris Parry was dismissed for 23 at 319-2 after 49.5 overs. Fleetwood's reply began well and John Wright, 70 with 10 fours, and Doug Watson, 49 with six fours and one six, put on 120 but they always had an impossible task and did well to finish with a creditable 214-5 as James Ellis made 26, Rob Clark 25 not out and Adam Sharrocks 18. Leaders St Annes also topped 300 with 303-4 from their 52 overs as the League's leading amateur run-maker, Ian Austin, struck 17 fours and two sixes in his 126. He was chiefly aided by Adrian Darlington, 40, and Gareth Evans, 76, while Shane Harwood made 20 and Steve Twist 18 not out. But the St Annes bowlers could not capitalise and Keith Semple's 84 was the backbone to Darwen's reply of 226-6. Skipper Neil Cordingley made 46 not out, Stuart Grant made 27 before being run out, John Cordingley 20 and Mark Emery 17 not out as Harwood took 2-58, ending the game bowling off-spin, and Michael Baer had 2-96. The other drawn game was between Preston and Leyland Motors at West Cliff as Preston scored 200-8 with Mario Ventura top scoring with 70, Ian McDonnell making 46 and Rhys Williams 21 not out. Motors replied with 164-9 to which Alan Richardson contributed a top score of 38 and James Aspinwall made 24 and Andrew Makinson 22 while Andrew Miller took 4-38 and Lukman Vahaluwala 3-28. Barrow allowed Lancaster to total 205-9 but then knocked off the runs to win by four wickets at 206-6. Ian Parkinson made 75 not out and Yasim Bari was the best of the rest with 27 for Lancaster as Daryl Wearing took 3-66 and Rawl Lewis 3-43. Lewis then anchored the Barrow innings with a superb 121 not out as Ian Allington made 24 and Robin Adams 19 with Ben Simm taking 3-85. Blackpool defeated Chorley by six wickets at Stanley Park thanks to a good all-round performance and aided by a run out for Tom Smith who was in fine form and looked set for a century until he failed to make his ground on 88 out of Chorley's 178-7. Jack Catterall's 21 was the next best effort as Steven Croft took 3-38. Justin Kreusch kept up his good form with the bat and made 63 out of Blackpool's comfortable 180-4 and there were two wickets for Tom Smith at a cost of 49 runs. And in the lowest scoring game of the day came the most exciting finish as Morecambe defeated Kendal by nine runs, 150 to 141. Mali Maketa's 39 was Morecambe's top score and Tommy Clough made 36 as Kabir Khan and Kevin Howarth shared nine of the wickets, Khan 4-69 and Howarth 5-54. The top order got Kendal off to a good start, Terry Hunte 37, Khan 31 and Ikram Ullah 23 but then from 132-5 Kendal subsided to their 141 all out as Mark Orchard took 6-52 and Gareth Peddar 2-3. Scores in brief (home sides in bold): Lancaster 205-9 (Parkinson 75*), Barrow 206-6 (Lewis 121*) Lancaster 4 points, Barrow 12 points Chorley 178-7 (Smith T 88), Blackpool 180-4 (Kreusch 63) Chorley 2 points, Blackpool 12 points Morecambe 150 (Howarth 5-51, Khan 4-69), Kendal 141 (Orchard 6-52) Morecambe15 points, Kendal 4 points Netherfield 319-2 dec (Walmsley 171, de Bruyn 112*), Fleetwood 214-5 (Wright 70, Watson 49) Netherfield 8 points, Fleetwood 4 points Preston 200-8 (Ventura 70, McDonnell 46), Leyland Motors 164-9 (Miller 4-38) Preston 10 points, Leyland Motors 5 points St Annes 303-4 (Austin 126*, Evans 76, Darlington 40), Darwen 226-6 (Semple 84, Cordingley N 46*) St Annes 8 points, Darwen 4 points SURRIDGE NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE Division One Club P W15 W12 D4 D1 L NR4 BP Pts St Annes 15 3 7 3 1 0 1 14 160 Netherfield 15 2 3 5 1 2 2 31 124* Morecambe 15 3 2 3 2 3 2 20 111 Fleetwood 15 3 2 2 1 4 3 19 109 Blackpool 15 2 2 3 3 2 3 25 106 Darwen 15 1 5 1 3 1 3 11 105 Barrow 15 1 4 1 2 4 3 18 99 Chorley 15 2 0 2 4 4 3 28 80* Kendal 14 1 1 1 2 6 3 30 75 Leyland 14 0 3 1 3 4 3 17 72 Leyland Motors 15 1 1 1 2 8 2 26 67 Preston 15 1 0 3 2 6 3 28 67* Lancaster 14 1 2 0 0 8 3 15 66 * 2 points deducted for Slow Over Rate Top batsman of the day in the Second Division was Ian Mawdsley of Chorley who made 111 not out as his side defeated Blackpool by five wickets in a high scoring contest, 222-9 replied to with 224-5 Colin Sherlock, 6-36, and Ian Palmer, 6-43, were two of the top bowlers as the latter helped his side, St Annes, to a 103-run victory over Darwen but the former's figures were in a losing cause as second placed Netherfield defeated leaders Fleetwood by 39 runs. But elsewhere John Miles' six wickets came at a lowly cost of 14 runs and he also made 67 runs as Barrow's 195 proved 105 runs too many for Lancaster. Scores in brief (home sides in bold): Blackpool 222-9 (Reece 53, Sidebotham 48), Chorley 224-5 (Mawdsley 111*, Hotham 65) Blackpool 4 points, Chorley 12 points St Annes 198-7 (Ashworth 45), Darwen 95 (Palmer 6-43) St Annes 15 points, Darwen 2 points Netherfield 140 (Sherlock 6-36), Fleetwood 101 (Nixon 4-40) Netherfield 15 points, Fleetwood 3 points Barrow 195 (Miles 67, Barnes L 4-39), Lancaster 90 (Masterman 43, Miles 6-14) Barrow 15 points, Lancaster 3 points Preston 100 (McDonald 47, Cottam 4-27, Cartwright 4-27), Leyland Motors 101-3 Preston 0 points, Leyland Motors 12 points Kendal 144, Morecambe 145-0 (Maje 63*, Armstrong 52*) Kendal 1 point, Morecambe 12 points SURRIDGE NORTHERN PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE Division Two Club P W15 W12 D4 D1 L NR4 BP Pts Netherfield 15 6 1 2 1 3 2 21 140 Barrow 15 3 4 3 1 2 2 23 137 St Annes 14 2 7 0 2 0 3 6 134 Fleetwood 15 3 5 0 1 4 2 17 131 Chorley 15 2 5 1 2 2 3 17 125 Morecambe 15 1 6 2 0 4 2 20 123 Darwen 15 1 5 2 2 3 1 23 112 Blackpool 15 2 0 3* 0 7 3 33 88 Leyland Motors 15 0 4 2 1 7 1 22 83 Leyland 14 2 1 1* 1 6 3 12 72 Kendal 14 3 0 0 1 9 1 17 67 Preston 14 2 1 0 1 7 3 9 64 Lancaster 14 0 0 0 1 10 2 12 21 * Includes 5 points for a Tie MATCH ACTION TOM SMITH RUN OUT CRUCIAL AS BLACKPOOL CRUISE HOME Chorley 178-7, Blackpool 180-4 By Gerry Wolstenholme The turning point of this game at Stanley Park came when Chorley professional Tom Smith, on 87, played a ball to long-on and set off for what seemed a comfortable single but his partner, Jack Catterall called for, and set off without hesitation, for a second. Smith had no chance of beating the accurate throw of Blackpool skipper Paul Danson and he was run out for 88 that meant the Chorley innings ended with perhaps 50 runs less than they could have scored at 178-7. Blackpool then got off to a sound start and with Justin Kreusch continuing his good form with the bat, they cruised home by six wickets at 180-4. Tom Smith and Neil Bannister put on 50 for the first wicket when Chorley were put in to bat and the only alarm was when Smith was dropped by Steven Croft off a low chance to slip when he had made 16. Bannister was the first to go after making 11 in 43 minutes when he flashed at Croft in the bowler's first over and Baker held the catch with ease. Mark Richardson did not last long and when he had made four Croft trapped him leg before wicket with a well-disguised slower ball at 56-2. Michael Critchley showed some defiance and he struck Croft for one delightful boundary through extra cover but the bowler had his revenge with the next ball when he beat him for pace and bowled him and that was 82-3. Smith, escaping one or two shots in the air that fell wide of fielders, and Catterall then added 50 for the fourth wicket before the catastrophe came as Danson's throw winged its way to a waiting Baker and that was 132-4 with Smith's 88 coming from 132 balls with 11 fours. Ghuarav Dhar made one before Baker caught him off Kreusch at 133-5 and it was 139-6 when Tim Barry bowled young Sam Sweeney for two. Barry repeated the dose for Catterall when he had made 21 and it was 160-7 and that left 14-year-old Josh Tolley to match his years with 14 not out, a most promising innings from an up-and-coming young player, and with Billy Smith two not out, Chorley closed on 178-7 with Croft the most successful bowler with 3-38. Barry took 2-61 and Kreusch 1-50. Charles Boucher began the Blackpool reply with a flurry of runs but then Croft got in the act and he blazed four beautiful extra cover boundaries from one Tom Smith over so that Blackpool were quickly 61-0. Then within one run both openers were dismissed as Boucher, dropped by Billy Smith off brother Tom at slip on 21, skied to mid-wicket where Billy Smith atoned for his earlier miss with a comfortable catch off Javed Hussein and Boucher had gone for 26. On came Dhar and from his first ball Croft attempted to hit him over mid-on, did not quite get hold of the ball and ended in giving Hussein an easy catch and he was gone for 33 at 62-2. Barry and Kreusch then looked in no difficulty as they added 86 in 62 minutes for the fourth wicket before Tom Smith dismissed them both. Kreusch pushed forward and was bowled for 63 made from 69 balls with one six and nine fours at 148-3 and Tolley held a skied catch off Barry, 27, at 163-4. But there were no further alarms as Robin Bracewell, nine not out, and Steve Mercer, six not out, took Blackpool home at 180-4. Tom Smith has knock up before making 88 Paul Danson leads out Blackpool against Chorley Justin Kreusch makes a fine 63 Steven Croft had figures 3-33

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