SHERIFF Hutton Bridge took over at the top of the Hunters ECB Yorkshire Premier League North table, despite their match being abandoned.

The reason was that leaders Hull lost to Harrogate in one of only two matches to produce a positive result as rain played havoc with the latest round of matches.

Harrogate’s batsmen produced another dominant display at Hull, passing 300 for the second time in a row.

Opener Matthew Good made up for the disappointment of just missing out on a century against Dunnington the previous week by scoring 103, and an opening partnership of 188 with Dion Sanson (78) set the platform for another mammoth total.

Skipper George Ross added 54 and, despite five wickets from Jack Storey (5-89), which included the three top scorers, the opposition went on to reach 328-7.

Tom Appleyard (51) passed fifty for the third time in five innings in the host's reply but three wickets each for both Ross (3-60) and Harry Stow (3-36) enabled the visitors to pick up maximum points.

The match at Weetwood between Yorkshire Academy and Woodhouse Grange produced a thrilling finish, despite rain reducing the contest to 23 overs per side.

Tom Young made the most telling contribution for the visitors with 39 from 26 balls but Matthew Waite took 3-35 to restrict the total to 97-6.

Steve Burdett (3-25) replied with three wickets as the hosts, chasing a revised target of 95, looked in trouble at 44-4 but they battled back and the game came down to the final over with seven still required.

James Brown (20no) and Jonathan Read (13no), having added 20 for the seventh wicket, managed a boundary and a couple of runs from the first five balls before a scrambled a single off the last was enough to give the hosts their fourth victory of the campaign, leaving them one of six sides separated by just seven points at the top of the table.

Elsewhere on a rain-dominated day, new leaders Sheriff Hutton Bridge had visitors Acomb at 74-4 with two wickets for Stephen Croft (2-10) when the rain arrived.

At North Marine Road, three wickets apiece from Zimbabwean overseas player Richard Ngarva (3-45) and Kristian Wilkinson (3-18) had put Scarborough in a dominant position against visitors York, who reached 135-6 after 40 overs, but the home side were denied the opportunity to press for a first victory of the season as rain curtailed their reply in its third over when they were chasing a revised target of 155.

Joe Ashdown (45) and Nick Kay (38no) did best for York.

Stamford Bridge managed to complete their innings, making 264-5 against Driffield Town, for whom Nick Hardgrave finished with 3-65.

Dominic Rhodes top-scored for the visitors with 72 and Kevin Murphy made an unbeaten 46 but their efforts counted for little as no further play was possible.

Castleford captain David Wainwright scored an unbeaten half-century at Dunnington and had guided his side to 123-3 when the game was abandoned, a result which gave the home side their first Premier League points.