ADDINGHAM are on the brink of a return to the top flight in the Aire-Wharfe League, just a year after being demoted.
With six matches left they have a 45-point lead over second-placed Beckwithshaw in Division One, with Colton a further 42 points back, albeit having played a game less than the top two.
Addingham notched two victories last weekend, defeating Calverley by three wickets and Bolton Villas by 53 runs.
Hosts Calverley chose to bat and made 211, with Nick Farrell taking 3-57 and James Nixon 4-64.
Addingham were 28-2 after tea, but partnerships of 48 and 109 put them back on track and they won in the 46th over.
Skipper Richard Atkins calmed any nerves with 64 from 102 balls, including five fours, and he had useful stands with Will Atkins (35) but particularly Farrell (64 off 67 balls including five fours).
Richard Atkins and Farrell then completed a fine weekend with the bat against Villas, scoring 91 and 53 respectively and putting on 126 for the fourth wicket after opener Ricky Palacio had scored 69 from 66 deliveries, which contained 12 fours and a six.
Atkins’ runs came off 78 balls and included 11 fours and three sixes, while Farrell was in for 53 deliveries and hit seven fours.
They finished on 257 all out before Villas were dismissed for 204, Nixon completing a fine weekend with the ball by taking 5-77, while Palacio returned 2-26.
Guiseley’s batters let them down against Follifoot after the visitors had made 173, with Aniket Rana taking 5-33 and Viraj Bhosale 2-14.
Only three of the home side reached double figures after tea – Jack Kelly (20), James Davey (11) and Joe Fewster (28no) – as they were humbled for just 80, Olicanian drawing level with them on 177 points in fourth equal after squeezing home at Harden.
Olicanian had first knock and made 236-7, which looked unlikely when they were 108-5, despite 44 from opener Tom Starkey.
No 5 Neyko Stiglingh transformed the innings by scoring an unbeaten 100 off 79 balls, including eight fours and five sixes.
He added 53 with Manley du Preez (21) for the sixth wicket and 63 with Stephen Wilkinson (14) for the seventh.
Those runs proved vital as Harden finished on 232-9 to lose by four runs, Christy Byrne taking 3-37, Stiglingh 2-43 and du Preez 2-53.
Ilkley also lost a close one to visitors New Rover, who made 193 after winning the toss, Daniel Bott (4-59) and James Bourke (5-52) doing the damage as the fourth and fifth bowlers used.
Ilkley’s top five then all got starts and they were looking good at 135-3, only to be dismissed for 179 with five balls remaining as only skipper James Pearson (25) got runs down the order.
Alex Bailey (38), keeper Will Spivey (31), Woodie Luffman (27), James Raper (23) and Rory Kroon (19) had put Ilkley in good shape before the collapse.
The Premier Division seems to be Otley’s to lose as they lead the way by 47 points, with all three teams immediately below them being defeated – Saltaire, Collingham and Burley (who won one, lost one on a double weekend).
There was a run-fest at Cross Green, with Otley, who won the toss, racking up 316.
Ben Morley hit 119 off just 88 deliveries, including 11 fours and seven sixes, and put on 132 for the fourth wicket with Steve Brown (44) and 48 for the fifth with Damon Reeve (25).
Opener Alex Atkinson had earlier made 50 off 44 balls, including seven fours and two sixes.
To be fair to Adel, they made a good stab of their reply, ending on 270-9 in a game of 586 runs as Brown took 4-66.
Burley won by seven wickets at Horsforth Hall Park on Saturday, but lost by six wickets at home to reviving Steeton on Sunday.
Hall Park made 166 after winning the toss in what was a top-heavy batting line-up, with openers Joe Greaves (34) and captain Steve Phillips (29) putting on 56 before wickets fell at regular intervals.
Dan Revis (5-37) and Joe Hall (4-33), the fifth and sxith bowlers used by Burley, provided the main threat with the ball, and Revis then scored 97 off just 60 balls, an innings that contained 12 fours and seven sixes.
He put on 141 with Jason Wright (53no off 42 deliveries including six fours and three sixes as Burley romped home in the 21st over.
It was a very different story 24 hours later, however, as they were dismissed for 115 by resurgent Steeton, Wright top-scoring with 22.
Steeton won by seven wickets in the 27th over to put themselves thirs from bottom, 21 points ahead of Rawdon albeit having played a game more.
Pool were in form at Saltaire, dismissing them for 167 after winning the toss, Kruthik Patel taking 3-37 and Will Pallister 3-40.
The visitors then measured their run chase nicely, winning by four wickets in the 41st over with Patel scoring 41, skipper Charlie Bell 32 and keeper Freddie Read 26.
Rawdon, shorn of bowlers, have now lost seven matches in succession to drop into a relegation berth, with their latest setback coming at home to Tong Park Esholt.
Andrew Duckworth scored 105 of Rawdon’s 214-8, an individual innings that lasted just 73 balls and contained 14 fours and three sixes.
Rawdon had been 42-5 only for Duckworth to add 68 with Harry Nicholson (23) and 83 with James Doidge (29no).
Tong Park then breezed home inside 36 overs without loss.
There was a top-of-the-table clash at Kirkstall in Division Three, where leaders Menston scored 236-5 after winning the toss.
Captain and keeper Andrew Montague-Millar (40) put on 71 for the second wicket with Fraser Oates, who finished on 101 not out from 121 balls, including 12 fours.
McCauley Taylor, who also scored 40, added 81 for the third wicket with Oates.
Kirkstall were then rolled over for 59 inside 20 overs by new-ball pair James Lowans (3-38) and overseas Zarshad Khan (7-20).
Green Lane dropped two places to eighth on the back of a 40-run setback at home to Bingley Congs, who made 258-9 after being sent in, Mark McEneaney taking 3-32 and Ben Roberts 3-73.
Chris Bogdanos (91) and Max Lee (40) put on 80 for openers in the reply, with Bogdanos hitting 13 fours in a 139-ball innings, but only Daniel Frost, with a rapid 42 off 26 deliveries, fired after that as Lane finished on 218-9.
Horsforth’s season hit a low point as they were beaten by bottom-of-the-table Rodley by three wickets with two balls to spare.
Matthew Cordingley made 50 in Horsforth’s 186-8 after they chose to bat, but they needed 62 not out by No 8 Joe O’Gorman to get up to that mark, that innings lasting 51 deliveries and containing 12 fours, with the latter adding 53 for the eighth wicket with Sam Blackiston (13).
Matthew James (3-19) was the most successful of seven bowlers used by Horsforth as they just lost out.
Only four Leeds Modernian players made double figures, topped by Ashley Rowden’s 34 as they were castled for 98 by visitors Thackley, who won by six wickets inside 19 overs.
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