Reigning Leeper Hare Reserve 'A' champions Dringhouses took a huge stride to retaining their crown with a 3-1 downing of Dunnington.

With five games in hand over their nearest rivals the victors' goals were shared between Ellis, Barker and Hudson with 16-year-old Rob Hart replying.

Goals from Jack Bolton (2), Greg FitzMaurice, Graham Wigley and Chris Dale gave current leaders Bishopthorpe a 5-1 win over Haxby.

Pocklington suffered a serious blow to their title hopes when they went down 2-1 at lowly New Earswick. Martin Corr put New Earswick into a first half lead with evergreen Kenny Tuite adding a second after the break. Mark Smales managed to pull one back for Pocklington.

Wigginton Black Horse are galloping away in the Reserve 'B' title race.

They hit six without reply against Riccall - Angus Clapham netted a hat-trick, Andrew Johnson hit two and the sixth was an own goal.

Second-placed South Bank were held to a 3-3 draw by Easingwold with their goals coming from Darryl Strickland, Paul Selby and Dave Kettlewell.

Poppleton picked up three valuable points with a 2-0 win at Fulford, Joe Vaughan netted both goals.

Richard Hunt, Mike Taylor and Carl Kidds scored to give Haxby & Wigginton a three goal lead by half time in their game at Heworth to keep them top of Reserve 'C'.

Both the League Junior Cup semi-finals went into extra time. Stillington overturned the league form book to edge out near neighbours Easingwold 3-2, John Anderson hitting the Stillington winner in extra time.

Copmanthorpe and Hamilton Panthers fought out an 11-goal thriller before the incident-filled clash was eventually settled by Graham Butcher's deciding strike in the second half of added time.

Victors Copmanthorpe boasted a hat-trick ace in Darren Starkey, who had opened the scoring in the goal-glut tussle, while Paul King also struck three times for luckless Panthers, including a brace of penalties.

Updated: 13:06 Tuesday, April 03, 2001