Dringhouses beat nearest rivals Bishopthorpe 3-0 in the top of the table clash in the Leeper Hare York and District League premier division.

All the goals came in the first half and all three were headers, the first from Mark Woodward and that was followed by goals from Shane Forrest and Graham Mitchell.

Nestl Rowntree move into second spot after winning at Malton Bacon Factory 3-1.

Nestl, who recently beat the Malton side in a cup-tie, opened the scoring on 38 minutes through Steve Blake and added another before the break from Andy Kennedy.

Bacon Factory pulled a goal back from a Seb Towse penalty, but substitute Ken Davies hit the winner from close range ten minutes from time.

A superb hat-trick by ex-York City striker Kieran Darlow set up Huntington's 6-0 home win over Kartiers. Jack Wilson, Mark Smythe and Ian Dunne completed the rout.

Old Malton knocked Haxby out of the York FA Cup last weekend and they beat them again on Saturday in a league fixture, winning 3-0 on this occasion.

There were goals from Heath Brown, Nicky Drew but the pick of them was the opener from Ben Richardson.

T & L Selby picked up their first point of the season with a 2-2 draw at Wigginton. The Selby side scored both their goals in the first half but were then reduced to 10 men shortly after the re-start and the hosts levelled with goals from James Vine and Tom Coates.

Despite losing their 'keeper after only 15 minutes, York St John's will be aggrieved they only took a point from a 4-4 draw in their home game with Copmanthorpe as they were leading 4-2 with ten minutes remaining.

The College side's scorers were Ben Winstanley (3) and Robin Bedford

Terry Hibbitt got Copmanthorpe's first goal, from the penalty spot. Mark Bellah got Copmanthorpe's second goal and then notched his second and his side's third goal and Mark Featherstone equalised for Copmanthorpe with the last kick of the match.

Updated: 11:39 Monday, October 03, 2005