Ovington, bottom of division one, beat British Sugar to move within range of Burn at the foot of the table.

Ian Holmes and Paul Mizon grabbed three wickets each to restrict Sugar to 129-7. Despite Wayne Bellerby's 4-55 Ovington ran out three-wicket victors.

Askham Bryan YPO sealed second place despite losing to a resurgent North Duffield. Roy Baggeley dominated Askham's innings with 104 out of 175-6. Mike Hamshere (6-69) then reduced Duffield to 90-5 with ten overs left before Dave Beilby chanced his arm with 101 to send his side to victory with two balls remaining.

Drax came out on top against a dogged Burn side after sauntering along to 185-6. The top five all got among the runs and it proved to be enough as, despite Dave Prime's inspired knock, Burn perished 15 runs adrift at the end.

Stockton and Hopgrove came unstuck against Bishopthorpe after struggling to 117-9. Bishopthorpe then flew to 64 without loss before an Ian Smith hat-trick caused alarm bells to ring only for Bishops to get home by four wickets.

Champions Norwich Union were made to battle at Westow, whose Rob Kellock scored 48 in their total of 141-9. Simon Morgan then produced 40 before Colin Smallwood took 5-58 as Union crept home by two wickets with seven balls to spare.

The Prendergast Memorial Cup final turned out to be a one-sided affair with Malton and Old Malton crushing Clifton Alliance by 135 runs.

Simon Cass led the way in Malton & Old Malton's 177-8 with an undefeated 53. Alliance had no answer to Mike Tildsley, whose devastating spell of 6-2 bowl ed Clifton out for 42.

Updated: 12:50 Thursday, September 04, 2003