On the day when York won the Yorkshire ECB League championship their second eleven suffered the disappointment of relegation from Hunters the estate Agent York and District Senior League premier division.

They suffered a six wicket home defeat at the hands of Sessay.

York posted a more than useful first innings total of 192-7, with half centuries from Dave de Sylva (55no) and James Pringle (56).

But their opponents won with 194-4 as Matthew Till (58), John Flintoff (60) and Chris Till (46no) took full advantage of the batsman-friendly track at Clifton Park.

Other York players to figure were batsman Tom Bartram with 31 and bowler Brendon O'Donovan, who took 3-24. Mick Polson's 3-46 was Sessay's best bowling.

Easingwold were able to parade their champions trophy, which they claimed a week earlier, when they travelled to play Sheriff Hutton Bridge.

The visitors were given a wonderful start as Jonathon Marwood and skipper Martin Piercy put on 176 for the first wicket.

Former Bridge junior Piercy went past the 900 run mark before falling for 84 while Marwood scored his second century of the season, making 110 in a total of 270-6.

The Bridge lost three wickets for 28 but recovered in fine style as Paul Oldfield (88) and Mike Smith (74) shared a fourth wicket stand of 152 to see their side to a draw at 206-6.

Simon Kellett rounded off a season severely curtailed by injury with his elength premier division century when he hit an unbeaten 110 to help Dunnington beat Acomb by 6 wickets.

Three major innings enabled Acomb to bag full batting points, with Richard Sykes and Andy Tute each making 53 and Joe Burton an unbeaten 59 in a total of 206-8.

Hamid Khan had his best bowling figures of the season with 6-85.

Collis King then went past the 1,000 runs mark by making 58 as he combined with Kellett to see Dunnington to a winning 210-4.

Woodhouse Grange made certain of finishing in third place by defeating Pickering by 8 wickets after Kamran Sajid (3-27) and Steve Burdett (3-24) had pegged Pickering, whose Sean Stuchbery made 61, to 151-9.

Jonathon Bean (92) then totally dominated an opening stand of 116 with Nick Hadfield before Kamran Sajid made 28no to take his average for the season to more than 100.

This fact, added to the Pakistani's 40-plus wickets, has earned him the Tony Frith Award for the Outstanding Overseas Player.

West Indian Lorenzo Ingram was the star when Clifton Alliance had an eight wicket victory at Heworth. Ingram took 3-34 as Heworth were taken to 161-8 by Dave Simpson (32), Mark Lynch (38) and Mark Bell (27).

Then, after Dave Taylor had fallen for 29, Ingram hit an unbeaten 98 as he combined with Richard Musgrave (25no) to see Clifton into the winner's enclosure.

Updated: 15:26 Monday, September 13, 2004