Sport Easy win keeps hosts on track
Although this was taken against Folkton on Sunday (report inside), Goole captain Neil Foster bowled his first York Senior League overs of the season on Saturday, taking 3-22 in the latest win.
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Goole Town 1st XI 148-2
Driffield No. 2 144-9
Although their cup hopes were to go up in smoke 24 hours later, Goole Town firsts did what they had to do in their York Senior League game on Saturday in another 30-point haul from an eight-wicket win over Driffield No. 2 at Westfield.
In fairness, after a bright start from the visitors the home side were rarely tested, as their bowlers got to work on the middle to late order, so much so that the absence of Dave England was hardly felt.
In conditions that had been made playable thanks to the efforts of the Goole officials once more following another deluge last Thursday, Neil Foster won the toss and asked the Woldsman to bat, opener Sam Drury giving them a flyer and taking particular liking to the extra pace of Richard Man.
The blow of losing Steve Hick with a recurrence of back problems after five balls of his third over was also overcome by a tidy spell from James Kerry, who was making his Division one league debut.
However the start of Driffield's problems came with Drury's dismissal for 40 and Neil Foster, bowling in the league for the first time this season, was to take 3-22 and take advantage of Mann's breakthroughs.
With the pitch rather slow - hardly a surprise after the recent weather - the pace was taken off the ball even more as Ashley Hulme and Kevin Murphy bowled in tandem towards the end as Driffield's innings limped to 144-9 in their 49 overs.
Perhaps if Driffield had had a little more luck in the opening overs, the game might have changed. However, Hulme and Anthony Gibbins survived several scares to post another 50-plus opening stand, and it reached 82 before the latter was caught in the deep for 56, with several lusty blows against the change bowlers.
Hulme, who was not at his most fluent in his 45, eventually succumbed at 107, but Lee Hayward with an unbeaten 28 and captain Neil Foster made sure that victory came in the 39th over in gathering gloom.
With York losing to Folkton and Flixton, whose weekend was to get even better on the Sunday, Goole, who entertain the Minstermen on Saturday, can almost end their promotion hopes by gaining revenge for their only league defeat at Clifton Park back in May.
In that meeting, a Darren Simpson unbeaten century was the backbone of the York reply to a moderate Goole total on the afternoon.
Published on 2nd August 2007 in Sport.
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