AN UNBEATEN 93 by John Major and 71 by Luke Dixon took Bridlington to a seven-wicket win at Hemingbrough – giving the seasiders an eight-point lead in Hunters York & District Senior Cricket League Ebor division two.

Earlier, Hemingbrough had a good opening stand between Matt Milburn 61 and Layton Hallam 49 before David Howard made 34. But Major proved his all-round value with a 4-49 return as ‘Brough made 203-9. Bridlington chased down their target in the 38th over.

Carlton Towers had the better of a high-scoring draw at Acomb, which saw 541 runs scored for the loss of 13 wickets.

Mark Holmes was top Towers scorer with 79, while L Ellin hit 54 as James Byford took 3-40 in a total of 285-7.

Acomb’s spirited response was focused on 101 from Leon Sacks and 91 by James Fletcher but their side fell just short at 256-6.

Somewhat unusually, all 20 wickets fell at Dunnington where the hosts beat York 3rds by 33 runs.

In Dunnington’s 178, Johnny Andrew made 49 and Josh Tattersall 31 as Chris Hunter took 3-34. David Brown made the top reply with 42 but the home side were always in control.

There was a tightly-fought encounter at Londesborough Park where the home total of 174 was fractionally in excess of Woodhouse Grange’s 166-9.

Park batting honours went firmly to Tom Eagling who made 84 as Tom Burdett captured 5-42.

Marcus Smith top scored for Grange with 25 and Tom Subley made 32 but James Beevers took a telling 5-40 to keep Park in command.

At Pickering, Mike Newhouse took 4-19 and Alex Nattrass 3-24 as the hosts were dismissed for 93 by Yapham. Ashley Cattle then hit 34 before being first out at 40 before Tom Connell made 41 not out in a seven-wicket win.

Scarborough groundsman John Dodds probably had mixed emotions when his side entertained his former club Stamford Bridge.

Home opener Mark Cook made 57 but lost three early partners as his side slipped to 41-3. Mark Cowell then took control as he stroked 102 off only 84 balls. With James Bryant making 26 not out, Scarborough were able to total 215-4.

This was to prove inadequate as a solid team batting performance took Stamford to a six-wicket win with 16 balls to spare. The front-running batsman was Salman Syed who made 78 not out, while good support came from Martyn Woodliffe with 37 and Andrew Healey who made 32.