The top-of-the-table clash in Leeper Hare York and District League Reserve 'A' at Old Malton was decided by a Dermot Read goal in the 49th minute for champions Dringhouses, who also missed a penalty.

A strong Malton Bacon Factory side beat Huntington 1-0 with Simon Collins hitting the only goal of the game, while St Johns beat Kartiers with goals from Mike Firek, Richard Holden and Chris Edberger.

Haxby drop into the bottom two following their 2-1 home defeat to Dunnington, who scored through James Calvert and Paul Andrews, David Jefferries hitting Haxby's goal.

Reserve 'B' leaders Rufforth suffered a second successive defeat at the hands of Thorpe going down 1-0 at home. Mel Jobling scored the only goal of the game to stretch Thorpe's unbeaten run into double figures.

Wilberfoss, with goals from Paul Jacques, Dave Burrows (2) and Andrew Clearey, recorded their first win in eight as they won 4-1 at Poppleton and moved off the bottom.

Tockwith, who led early into the second period with goals from Dave White and Andy Walker, shared six goals with Wigginton.

Mitch Buckly and Paul Stewart brought Wigginton level before Phil Darley restored Tockwith's lead only for Adam Jenkins to level again, nine minutes from time.

Norwich Union are the latest Reserve 'C' leaders to relinquish top spot after going down 5-3 at Huby despite a hat-trick from Nick Henshaw.

Huby's haul was shared equally between Tom Horner, Richard Webster, Marcus Ellis, Ian Harvey and Shaun Norquay.

Heworth are the new leaders after coming back from 2-0 down at Amotherby to win 4-2 with goals from James Dexter, John Bruce (2) and Martin Broom. Richard Kerrison and George Cooper hit first-half strikes for Amotherby.

Hemingbrough's promotion hopes took a severe knock as they went down 2-1 at local rivals Riccall. Ashley Olsen gave Riccall the early lead and Peter Minto added a second before Mike Young grabbed a late consolation goal for Hemingbrough.

The bottom two sides both took a point from a 1-1 home draw. LNER Builders led from a Mark Rollinson goal but drew with York RI. Civil Service, with a John Hampton goal, shared the points with Fulford, whose equaliser came from Mark Benson.

Updated: 10:50 Wednesday, March 01, 2006