Stamford
Town got their South Lincolnshire & Border League season off to a good
start with a nine wicket win over Sleaford 2nd that gained them 19
points while Boston won their second game in a row to go top of the table with
38 points after rivals Bourne 2nd and Grantham were rained off.
Tom Baxter
hit an unbeaten 127 of Boston ’s 246 for six, but it was Paul
Roberts who was the main architect of the victory over Moulton Harrox, hitting
61 runs and taking six wickets as Moulton were bowled out for 95.
Sleaford
made 155 for nine against Stamford but an unbeaten 53 from David
Piggott saw his side home.
These were
the only two games played in the top flight but in Division One four of the
five were completed with only Grantham 2nd v Baston rained off.
Market
Deeping 2nd top the table with maximum points from their two games
while Billingborough 2nd, Boston 2nd and Long Sutton 2nd
have each taken the maximum 20 from their first match.
After
Heckington’s huge score of the previous week, the village side were brought
back down to earth with a meagre total of 50 all out, a total Market Deeping
reached for the loss of three wickets.
Mitch
Griffiths made 66 for Friskney who had 147 on the board when the final wicket
fell and Spalding 2nd were made to fight hard for their win, losing
seven wickets before an unbeaten 57 from Ansar Hussain saw them home.
Both
Saturday games in Division two were rained off but on Sunday Lindum 3rd,
Claypole and Freiston got their campaigns off to a good start, Lindum beating
Pinchbeck by five wickets, Luke Endley
making 79 runs and taking eight wickets in Claypole’s win over Boston 3rd
and Freiston overtaking Moulton Harrox 2nd total of 140 for the loss
of four wickets.
Premier
Division
Sleaford 2nd
155-9, Stamford 161-1 (Piggott 53no);
Long Sutton
v Grantham – rained off, no play
Welby v
Skegness 2nd – rained off, no play
Woodhall
Spa 2nd v Bourne 2nd – rained off, no play
Lindum
Ramblers v Belton Park – rained off, no play
Division
One
Heckington
50, Market Deeping 2nd 53-3;
Woodlands
67, Boston 2nd 68-5;
Cavaliers
80, Billingborough 2nd 81-1 (King 60no);
Friskney
147 (Griffiths 66), Spalding 2nd 149-7 (Hussain 57no);
Grantham 2nd
v Baston – rained off, no play
Division
Two
Grantham 3rd
v Timberland – rained off, no play
Pinchbeck
60, Lindum 3rd 61-5;
Claypole
268-6 (Dobbie 78no, Endley 79), Boston 3rd 73 (Endley 8-28);
Moulton
Harrox 140 (Jake Morton 57no); Freiston 142-4 (I Ilyas 65)
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