BOWLERS held sway for Woodhouse Grange on their ascent to the top of the Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League premier division.

In skittling out Beverley Town for 92 for a six-wicket win, Dave Suddaby finished with 5-18 and Josh Jackson took 3-28.

The hosts then became the only side to win both their matches over the Bank Holiday weekend as Nick Hadfield’s unbeaten 39 saw them home with help from Chris Bilton (30).

Acomb led the table going into the latest round of matches but dropped a place as they ended up on the wrong end of a draw at Stamford Bridge.

The home side were indebted again to Yorkshire’s Will Rhodes.

Free from county duties, he scored 88 sharing a stand of 137 for the fourth wicket with Kevin Murphy (71) in a total of 229-8, which would have been more had it not been for Joe Dale’s four wickets.

Rhodes then took 3-20 as the visitors were restricted to 128-7 in reply, Dale finishing unbeaten on 34 off 93 balls.

For the second time in three days Heworth were involved in a close finish, this time emerging victorious to beat Easingwold by four runs.

The visitors were given a good start by Mark Mierzwinski. The skipper, who notched 78, shared stands of 65 with Stephen Piercy (28) for the first wicket and 54 with Kyle Waite for the second.

But Salman Syed (3-47) pegged them back before Dan Walton (5-58) brought an end to proceedings, picking up the last wicket with four balls of the match to go.

Earlier, Tom Neal (50) completed his second half-century of the weekend and Paul Skilbeck took 4-53 as Heworth totalled 200-7.

Dunnington got the better of the draw against Scarborough, although the visitors got within 17 runs of victory.

Jake Murphy continued to impress for the home side, having moved from York prior to the start of the campaign, by adding to Saturday’s half-century with 84. Support from Adam Sutcliffe helped their side to 214-8 despite the efforts of Ryan Gibson (3-38) and Jack Holt (3-50).

Gibson also led the visitors’ response with 82 and James Pick made 42, but Adam Iyer (5-69) and Josh Barrett (3-28) ensured they finished short of the victory target.

Sheriff Hutton Bridge continued their unbeaten start to the season with victory at home to Clifton Alliance by eight wickets.

Russell Robinson took 4-23 as the visitors were bowled out for 98, the only substantial resistance coming from Hayden Bradley with an unbeaten 30.

The hosts then raced to 101-2 inside 20 overs, opener Paul Scaling with 36 and Robinson rounding off an excellent personal performance with 41 not out.

Fenner secured their first win of the season with a convincing victory at home to derby rivals Hull Zingari.

Jack Story top-scored for the visitors with 86 out of a total of 166.

Steve Sergeant (4-15) and Grant Van Es (3-15) did most of the damage for the home side.

Fenner then cruised to victory for the loss of only one wicket, Will Parker’s 54 supplementing an unde - feated 91 from Ben Hatfield.

For the third time in four matches, Studley Royal were left frustrated as their game with York II fell victim to the downpours.