Sport Seconds hit the top with easy win
Goole Town 2nd XI 146-3
Stillington II 145
Steve Foster guided Goole seconds to another maximum-points victory to give them top spot in Division Six after rain intervened in the top of the table clash between Hull Zingari II and Sessay II.
Barry Clements won the toss at a damp Westfield and opted to make the most of the overcast conditions against 10-man Stillington.
The visitors were forced to take the field a man down after a string of call-ups to the first team left them depleted, and Goole were willing and able to take advantage.
Will Sparks and Mark West bowled tidily with the new ball; the damp outfield and enthusiastic Goole fielding making early runs hard to come by.
Stillington's openers Kay and North crawled to 32-0 from 11 overs before Sparks broke the solid defence of the experienced North.
Hartley and Dalton fell in quick succession to James Kerr before Kay and Steel added some metal to the Stillington innings.
Steel was intent on picking up the pace of the innings, dealing mainly in boundaries in his 28, before taking one chance too many, holing out to deep mid-wicket off Dan Murphy.
Kay was joined at the crease by Milburn, but any dwindling hopes Stillington harboured of posting a testing target disappeared altogether when Kerr cleaned him up for 38, finishing with 3-22.
Sparks, returning for a second spell, and Murphy ran through the Stillington tail to end the innings with three wickets each and leave the innings some way short on 145 all out.
Goole openers John McGrory and Neil Webster both fell cheaply, but Jake Mahoney and Steve Foster steadied the ship with a patient partnership of 73, the former falling for a well-crafted 33 with the finish line in sight.
Foster reached his 50, courtesy of some unusually timid batting from Clements, to see Goole home with the best part of 10 overs to spare.
A seventh 30-point haul, coupled with the abandonment between Hull Zingari and Sessay seconds sees them top Division Six and a trip to Dringhouses this Saturday, with Sessay in action against Stillington and Hull Zingari facing New Earswick.
Published on 12th July 2007 in Sport.
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