​Talented Fareham sportsman Luke Cornish celebrated a career-best 6-13 bowling return literally hours after receiving news that he had obtained a First Class honours degree in Maths & Business Studies at Loughborough University.
Cornish, a leading light in the town’s hockey club, took six wickets in 31 balls as Trojans collapsed from 130-4 to 151 all out in a Southern Premier League Division 3 match against Fareham & Crofton, who went on to win by four wickets at Bath Lane.
All the time Syed Agha (37) and Syed Mahmood (36) remained at the Bath Lane crease, Trojans appeared set for a decent score, but when James Headen (2-17) nipped out Mahmood and Oli Kelly in quick succession (at 102-1) they fell apart.
Bowling straight, Cornish (left) was quick to take the Honours, hitting the stumps of four Trojans batsmen and having two others caught behind by Tom Kent as six wickets fell for 21 runs.
Fareham made steady progress towards their third win of the season, James Heiniger (34), Sam Stoddart (26), Cornish (24) and Kent (23) doing the spadework.
The only downside to Fareham’s victory was the collar bone injury sustained by Steve Berryman, who expects to be sidelined for several weeks.  Trojans, commendably, provided a substitute fielder when the injury occurred.
Fareham’s victory took them above Portsmouth & Southsea in the log and two wins clear of Lymington II, who lost by 63 runs at Purbrook, where Sean Figgins (86) and Martin Lee (58) shared a 123-run stand as the hosts made 258-7.   Henry Edwards (67) responded in Lymington’s 195 all out. 

A maiden Seniors’ century by Sparsholt’s Andy Worth paved the way for a comprehensive 189-run win over Wiltshire to secure Hampshire’s place at the top of Group 3 of the ECB 50-plus County Championship.
Inexplicably, Wiltshire invited Hampshire to bat on a good looking Marlborough batting deck. Openers Andy Giles (33) and Worth took full advantage putting on 122 for the first wicket before the classy Basingstoke man perished to the wiles of Army veteran Alan Lerwill (4-80). 
Worth (110) battered his way to the Seniors’ first ton of the campaign before fatigue kicked in and he walked past a ball from Lerwill to be stumped. 
The charge was now on as Andy Parratt (43) and Stu Shapland (26) plundered quick runs. Wiltshire strove manfully to contain Hampshire but the final 10 overs saw the scoring rate accelerate further as Keith Harsham (55*) and Andre Manders (38*) took the game beyond them at 329-5.
With the result virtually a foregone conclusion, Wiltshire were soon in trouble as Tim Wheatley and Nick Gargaro left them rocking on 11-2. Only skipper Beale (32) offered much resistance with wickets falling steadily. Neil Taylor (3-27) recorded the best bowling analysis with economical support from the rest of the attack as Wiltshire fell well short of their target at 140-9.

NEW MILTON, looking forward to a three-hour 316-run leather chase at Sarisbury.
Back (from left): Steve Taylor (Scorer), Billy Tomkins, Campbell Golding, Matt Freeman, Dale Wakefield, Dan Loader, Steve Watts. Seated: Toby Edwards, Luke Mortimore, George Watts, Lee Beck, Ryan Beck.

​Four-wicket Sean Read and Sam Stroud ripped the heart out of Hythe & Dibden’s top order to set up a seven-wicket win for Southern Premier League Division 3 pacemakers Bashley (Rydal) II, who are effectively 43 points ahead at the top.
Read took 4-41 and Stroud 2-26 as Hythe lurched to 36-5 (Zac Millar 23) before Alex Nicholas (32) helped out.  Then Phil Morris (3-24) whipped through the tail.
It was easy pickings once Arno Hattingh (29) and James Turner (38) got into their stride. PC Wakely (3-39) arrested the chase before Morris’s unbeaten 30 got Bash home.
Sufian Munir took his run tally for the season past the 500-mark as Fawley climbed into second place with a 35-run win over Tichborne Park at Holbury.
Munir hit 93 (his second dismissal in the nineties) and shared a dominant century stand with Will Crossley (32) as Fawley notched 269-6 (Andy Parratt 27).
Will Allam celebrated his maiden SPL century, with an unbeaten 234-6 as TP replied with 234-6, Queenslander Lachan Jess hitting 57.
If George Marshall played more regularly, Hambledon would be a greater threat.
The pocket-sized left-hander turned out for the first time in a month against Portsmouth & Southsea and made 86, his stand with Will Bond (51) pointing the Dons to 230 before Ben Saunders popped in with 5-53.
P & S ran Hambledon close, Jack Davies hitting an unbeaten 108 but critically losing the strike in the last over when Rory Morris (3-42) took their tenth wicket.  George Harding took 3-46 and Ian Turner a miserly 2-16 with the new ball.
 

Steve Harris was the six-hitting hero as Langley Manor chased down Hartley Wintney’s 331-5 to pull off an astonishing five-wicket Southern Premier Division 2 win with five balls to spare.
He hit the first ball of the last over for a towering six into a nearby garden to complete a remarkable run chase by the Manor to climax a game which produced an aggregate 666 runs for the loss of only ten wickets, saw 20 sixes hit out of the ground and 60 fours.
Harris (left) finished 80 not out, but spare a thought for 16-year old Harry Broderick (97), who was bowled by Jack Budd three runs short of a maiden SPL century, and his skipper Will Kerr (92), who similarly perished to the Langley Manor captain in the nervous nineties.
The pair put on 181 for HW’s second wicket, Kerr hitting two sixes and 12 fours in his 92 and Broderick four maximums and ten fours before falling three runs short of a deserved hundred.  With Scott Baldwin plundering 48 and Jamie Teale 27 Hartley Wintney closed at 331-5.
But any treble-figure score isn’t a win guarantee on Hartley’s fast scoring and historic Cricket Green, the venue of three previous 300-plus run chases in the past ten years.
Conor Browne (59) and Budd (37) got the Manor off to a 99-run start before Nick Doubell (77) shared stands of 86 with Elliot Ponting (33) and later Harris.  Sixes and fours flew everywhere before Doubell departed at 281-5.  50 still needed and time running out.
Harris took up the challenge and with Jordie Smith (18 not out) alongside, smashed another 54 runs to get Langley Manor across the line with five balls to spare.  In all, he hit five 4s and six sixes in his highest SPL score.  

Hartley Wintney are hosting the Don Lynch Aylward Cup semi finals this week. 
The first is at the Cricket Green tonight Hartley Wintney (Tuesday) when Hartley face Basingstoke and North Hants (6pm) and on Thursday Finchampstead play  Eversley. 
The final is scheduled for either Tuesday July 23 or Thursday, July 25 at Hartley Wintney. 

League leaders Totton & Eling suffered a 58 run defeat away to Liphook & Ripsley, thanks largely to an outstanding display with bat and ball by Suman Ganguly. 
It was the only Division 2 match of nine they had not won this season. Ganguly hit 100 before taking three top order Totton wickets.
Liphook lost Harry Munt cheaply for 7 before Rob Nicklin [38] and Ganguly  put on a commanding partnership of 143. Nicklin showed exceptional application whilst Ganguly dispatched the ball to all corners of the Ripsley Park ground. His ton, including 10 fours and six maximums, was completed in 101 mins and 104 balls before being trapped leg before by Brighton Mugochi [2-36]. 
George Neave chipped in with a brief 17. It was then left to Jonny Pryce with a six-boundary 41 to hold the Liphook innings together until his dismissal in the final over. The Ripsley Park outfit closed on 254-7.
Ganguly opened the bowling for the home side and soon destroyed the Totton top order, trapping lbw both the experienced Jimmy Taylor [0] and Owen Morris [2]. He also had Dimitri Adams caught behind by Munt for 20. Totton 63-3.
Zimbabwean pair Bothwell Chapungu [36] and Brighton Mugochi (37) alongside  Ollie Thomas (35) gave hope for a Totton revival but as each got on top another wicket fell. Dave Elliott [2-23], Daniel Harvey [2-40], Sam Harvey [1-17], Rob Nicklin [1-20] and Chaz Janczur [1-52] shared the spoils to leave the visitors all out for 200 in the 47th over. Spirits were deservedly high in the home dressing room.  
​Graham Symons

​Ten local Southern Premier League cricketers, including three from Bournemouth, have been named in a Dorset squad for Wednesday evening’s T20 Challenge match against Hampshire at Bashley (Rydal), 5pm.
Dorset: Luke Matthews (Bournemouth), Felix Organ (St Cross Symondians), * Luke Webb (Bournemouth), Alex Eckland, + Ed Ellis (St Cross Symondians), Ryan Scott (Lymington), Tom Robinson (Bournemouth), Josh McCoy (Purbrook), Josh Digby (Bashley Rydal), Harry Montacute, Brad Currie (Bashley Rydal), Harry Fisher (Lymington).

​James Wade celebrated a maiden five-wicket haul as South Wilts seconds gave their prospects of Southern Premier Division 2 survival a timely boost wit ha 66-run win over their Basingstoke & North Hants counterparts, who are sliding into trouble at the bottom.
Wade (pictured by Roy Honeybone) ripped the heart out of Basingstoke's top order as South Wilts comfortably defended 208-9, a total posted after Chris Chandler (4-32) and Greg Donaldson (2-42) had reduced the Bemerton hosts to 37-5.
Tom Pearce, with a thoughtful 51, and Stephen Booth (51) effected the South
Wilts recovery which Sam Pittman's late order 36 completed to give the Salisbury side a competitive score.
Wade's new ball spell had Basingstoke rocking at 46-6 before Chandler (44) and Donaldson (22) gave their eventual 142 all out an air of respectability.
* Rumours of Rob Wade buying his son's jug after play remain unconfirmed !

SARISBURY ATHLETIC warmed up for Sunday's National Village Cup quarter-final showdown with North Perrott at Allotment Road (1pm) with a 316-run fest against Southern Premier League Division 1 strugglers New Milton, whom they beat by 98 runs.
Standing (from left): Jordan Wright, Jason Allmark, Chris Sanders, Tom Mills, Tom Nightingale, Dan Clouting. Front: Paul Jewell, Jack Lovett, Sam Floyd, Josh Hill, Sam Hill.

​​Sarisbury Athletic’s top four batsmen all made fifty-plus scores in the 316-6 run fest against New Milton, the boundary rope being breached 36 times in addition to three sixes.
Sam Floyd (57) and Tom Mills (59) launched the innings with a 136-run stand, which Tom Nightingale (54) and Josh Hill (69) enhanced before Chris Sanders added a handy 35.  
Toby Edwards (37) ensured it wasn’t entirely one-way traffic with an eight-boundary blitz on Sanders at the top of the New Milton reply, but after Philip Jewell (3-34) had made inroads into the middle-order it was left to George Watts to spank 71 not out and get the Green & Golds up to 218 (Matt Freeman 32).

Liam Dawson is set to return to the Hampshire fold for Wednesday's T20 match against Dorset at Bashley (Rydal), 5 o'clock.
Although he did not play in the tournament as such, Dawson was part of the England squad which carried off that dramatic ICC World Cup final 'super over' victory over New Zealand at Lord's on Sunday.
He has not played a competitive match since England's CWC warm-up defeat by Australia at the Ageas Bowl on May 25 and has not appeared in Hampshire's colours since the opening day of the Isle of Wight Cricket Festival match against Nottinghamshire a week earlier.
Tom Alsop, recently sidelined with a hamstring injury, is also set to play.
Hampshire: Oli Soames, Tom Scriven, Harry Came, Brad Taylor, Liam Dawson, Tom Alsop, Calvin Harrison, + Gareth Schreuder, Ryan Stevenson, Chris Searle, Ajeet Dale, George Pardoe.

* Bashley (Rydal) will have full bar and refreshment facilities available for the T20 match. Car parking is available, though spectators are urged to bring their own fold-up seats which they can place on the boundary edge.

Skipper Jeremy Frith led the way as Sparsholt edged above Portsmouth and into second place in Southern Premier League Division 1 after a five-wicket win over Andover at London Road.
He took 3-22 with his spin before anchoring the Sparsholt run chase with a watchful 58.
Sparsholt had control of affairs after reducing the Lions to 88-5, a position Charlie Ayers (44) and captain Matt Hooper (32) improved.  But a modest 186 was never likely to be enough as Frith (58) underpinned Sparsholt's reply.  Michael Haworth (26) featured in a 50-run start, which Ollie Perrin (29) and Dave Banks (26 not out) enhanced.

Portsmouth, who slipped into third place in Southern Premier League Division 1 after a three-wicket defeat by leaders Hook & Newnham Basics in an absorbing contest at St Helen's, Southsea.
Standing (from left): Ian Miller (scorer), Fahad Ahmed, Andrew Marston, Ben Duggan, Reuben McArdle, Henry Woolf, Fraser Hay. Seated: Dan Wallis, James Christian, Jack Marston, Alex Hammond, Tom Wallis,

Lee Beck was named Southern Premier League Division One Cricketer of the Month for June after scoring 216 runs and helping New Milton win four successive matches. The monthly awards are made by the www.vimpsatthecrease. com cricket website, in conjunction with Cricket-Hockey.com, the Downton-based sports equipment specialists.

Paultons took advantage of St Cross Symondians’ surprise defeat at Waterlooville to move to within five points of the Winchester club in the chase for the potential runners-up place beyond Totton & Eling in Southern Premier League Division 2.
While they were thrashing Fair Oak by 152 runs, St Cross tumbled to a rather unexpected 40-run loss at Rowlands Avenue.
Cameron Grierson’s (left) season best 95 underpinned Paultons’ hefty 274-6 against Fair Oak, who are generally struggling to score runs this season.
The former Lymington opener hit a six and 11 fours, sharing a near century stand with Australian George Condon (53) before Nigel Feltham smacked a no nonsense 46, including four sixes. Only Charlie Gwynn (34) made his mark in Oak’s disappointing 122 response, Scott Dawes taking 4-26.
A top order batting collapse, which saw five wickets fall for 31 runs, cost St Cross Symondians II dear as they endeavoured to chase down the Ville’s 187-9 (Dan Birch 50).
Dan Young (35) lost five partners in quick succession before St Cross slithered to 147 all out against Conor Regan (4-29), Archie Reynolds (3-23) and Max Goddard (3-23).

With only 18 points separating the top four teams, South Wilts have every chance of forcing their way into the ECB Southern Premier League championship race - if they can beat Lymington in front of Saturday's vice-presidents day diners.
Emphatic back-to-back wins over Alton and Basingstoke & North Hants have rekindled confidence and pushed South Wilts back into the limelight and with a far more balanced look, skipper Tom Morton believes his side could get into the mix.
"Jack Mynott returning from his teaching assignment in Kenya, young Jack Stearman finishing his A-levels and Ryan Murray back fit is a triple boost for us and lengthened our batting considerably," Morton said.
"Beating Lymington on Saturday is key for us. We suffered a low scoring defeat down there, but they are on a high with seven wins in ten and have taken the league by surprise, having finished second from bottom last year."
But when the VPs tuck into their smoked salmon much of the conversation will surely surround the electric form of Arthur Godsal, who celebrated his maiden century in last week’s win at Basingstoke, just seven days after demolishing Alton before lunch with a six-wicket blast.
Godsal’s promotion to number three in the SW batting order has been a stroke of genius by Morton, who played alongside the Southampton Solent University student during his time with Middlesex County League champions Ealing.
“Arthur has not had many opportunities in the past to underline his batting credentials,” Morton explained.
“He was selected for Middlesex junior age groups a year or two ahead and consequently batted down the order with increased emphasis placed on his bowling.
“But when the opportunity to bat three for us came long he jumped at the chance and showed everyone what he was capable of at May’s Bounty. 
                                                                             Job to be done
Godsal struck his maiden hundred after Morton himself had plundered a typically aggressive 38 (eight fours) before becoming one of six victims for Kz Natal all-rounder Brad Porteous (6-71).
Godsal hit 16 boundaries before handing the baton to teenager Jack Stearman, whose 46 not out, aided by Ben Draper’s 25, guided South Wilts to 258 all out.
The ex-Ealing man wasn’t finished. There was still a job to be done with the ball.
Showered and refreshed, Godsal (3-16) grabbed three quick wickets to leave Basingstoke rocking at 30-4, Max Harsham, Josh May and the injured David Griffiths (calf) all bagging ducks.
Jordan Hobday (44) dug in, but only Brad Neal (24), Joe Oates (22) and Chris Jolley (21) also managed double figures before Ryan Murray (3-31) and Jack Mynott (2-6) ended the innings at 134.

Sam Plater’s unbeaten 121 eased Rowledge away from an uncertain 113-5 and set up a match winning 221-5 against Southern Premier League Division 1 strugglers Calmore Sports at Loperwood Park.
The Charterhouse sports teacher, pictured being clapped off the field by the Calmore fielders, struck a six and 13 fours in his maiden Rowledge century.
Plater had to keep his wits about him when Rowledge slipped from a watchful 79-1 to 113-5, but he found a reliable partner in teenager Ollie Baker, whose unbeaten 44 helped put the visitors in a strong tea-time position.
Mark Lavelle returned an immaculate 2-18 off ten overs for Calmore, whose top order fell apart against Joe Randall (4-22), who reduced the hosts to 16-4.
Randall was supported by miserly spells from David Lloyd and Will Ryman, who stifled any prospect of Calmore featuring in a run chase. James Manning and Mike West staged a brief rally, but wickets fell at regular intervals to Steven Martin (2-26) and Ollie Baker (2-24) before slimline Ricky Yates (2-0) finally brought the innings to an end with two wickets in six balls to leave Rowledge 123-run winners.
Calmore now face a critical relegation showdown with winless Ventnor at Steephill on Saturday (1230) – the islanders suffering an 11th successive defeat at eight-wicket winners Old Tauntonians & Romsey.
Ventnor’s demise was very much down to Hampshire left-armer Chris Wood, whose 6-17 return included the visitors’ top three before Rob Snell (25) and Neil Westhorpe (61) began a fightback.
They progressed the score to 95-3 before the last seven wickets fell for 53 runs, Jody Brown and Rob Newman pocketing two each.
Snell struck an early blow for Ventnor, but an unbeaten half-century by Joe Vaughan (52) and support knocks from Wood (35) and Harry Tulk (38) eased OTR to a comfortable win.
Ventnor won't appreciate the irony but it was probably Chris Wood's last game for OTs before the start of the T20 Blast.

Josh Buckingham launched an astonishing Southsea seafront six-hit assault to lead Hook & Newnham Basics clear from a top order batting collapse to a pulsating three-wicket win over Southern Premier Division 1 title rivals Portsmouth at St Helen’s.
Table topping Hook were rocking at 14-3 and later 46-4 in pursuit of Portsmouth’s 191 when Buckingham arrived at the crease.
With brother Matt (58) alongside he steadied the ship, easing Hook to 125 before Andrew Marston (3-36) broke the stand with a return catch.
When the lanky left-arm spinner took two wickets in quick succession, Hook were back in the mire at 137-7. And Portsmouth were scenting a victory that would have seriously lightened Hook’s stranglehold on top place.
Cue Josh Buckingham to launch a blistering six-hit assault on spinner Faiad Ahmed, who was struck twice clean over the St Helen’s pavilion in consecutive deliveries before a third ‘maximum’ smashed straight into the clock. 
Time stood still as Buckingham then launched Fraser Hay for a straight six – his unbeaten 85, aided by sensible support from young Will Gardner, sweeping Hook to a victory that takes them 30 points clear (of Sparsholt) at the top of SPL1.
In all, Josh Buckingham hit seven maximums and six fours, brother Matt keeping the ball on the floor with 12 boundary strikes in his 58.
Portsmouth had similarly found it hard going up front.  Taking over the mantle from the injured Martin James, Jack Murrell (4-32) ploughed into Portsmouth’s top order, reducing the city side to 75-5 (Hay 25).
Some thoughtful and watchful batting by Dan Wallis (28), Alex Hammond (25) and Henry Woolf (22) revived fortunes before Daniel Moore’s 5-26 ripped through the tail.
Trip advisor: Jan Hay’s jam and cream scones 5*

​Max Curtis struck his second century of the season and South African paceman Marvin Williams snapped up a second five-wicket haul as defending ECB Southern Premier Division champions St Cross Symondians trimmed Havant by 44 runs at the Green Jackets Ground.
The result strengthened Symondians’ third placement in the table – effectively only 15 points behind the leaders ahead of the visit of Bashley (Rydal) to Winchester on Saturday.
It’s a key match for St Cross, who will be in the thick of the ‘business end’ action if they win it.
St Cross lost MCC YC’s hopeful Billy Mead for a duck before Tom Foyle smacked a six-four 30. But when Harry Came was stumped off Richard Hindley, they were 66-3.
Cue Curtis, signed from ECB West of England PL top dogs Clevedon just before the start of the season, and Guernsey’s Matt Stokes to share a 143-run partnership and set up the St Cross victory.
Curtis made his mark a fortnight ago with a century against Burridge, but bettered it with 106, which contained a six and 14 fours. 
Stokes departed for 67 during a collapse - prompted by Richard Jerry (4-43) and teenage spinner Freddie Gadd (3-52) – which saw St Cross plunge from 204-3 to 233 all out. Seven wickets for 24 runs.
It was left to the elder Gadd, Harry to underpin Havant’s 189-run response.  He made 75 before being seventh out at 183, one of three victims for Hampshire prospect Harry Came (3-33).
But it was Marvin Williams who caused Havant most grief, taking 5-58 and two catches.  The ‘Ocean Express’, as he is affectionately know back in the Cape, could be a main player in the coming weeks, particularly when Bashley (Rydal) come calling on Saturday.

Can Matt Metcalfe bowl Lymington to an improbable ECB Southern Premier League championship ?
The talismanic 33-year old all-rounder, who has played in every one of the SPL's 20 summers, took the 27th five-wicket haul of his career as he bowled Lymington to the double over Bournemouth.  He now has 534 league wickets under his belt.
Backed by the pacey Josh Proctor (3-43), he took 5-37 as Bournemouth were rolled out for a modest 135 - a target Lymington polished off with Ryan Scott (69) scoring his first half-century since late June last year.
The six-wicket victory strengthened Lymington's hold on second place in the Premier Division ahead of what could be season defining visit to South Wilts on Saturday.  They are 11 points behind leaders Bashley (Rydal).
While Metcalfe will take most of the accolades, it was Proctor's two spells that were particularly significant, the soon-to-depart Chichester University student removing Bournemouth's top scorers Simon Woodruff (39) and Ed Denham (31), who were repairing the damage from 37-4.
With Metcalfe weighing in with another ‘five-for’, Bournemouth tucked uneasily into their lunch nine down and were soon in the field defending 135.
Dan Conway (2-11) soon removed both Lymington openers, but Scott (fresh from some much needed middle time playing for Dorset in midweek) chose the day to rekindle some form, making 69 (12 fours) and sharing a handy third-wicket stand with Dom Hand (24), which took the game away from Bournemouth.
Gareth Schreuder and Dan Cox completed the formalities.
 
 

What a difference a week has made to Alton.
Seven days after being shot out for all time low 44 by South Wilts, they bounced back with a hefty 278-7, which set up an 89-run win over a Burridge side without a win in its last five Time pennant matches.
Four of Alton's top five batsmen scored more against Burridge than the entire side at Bemerton, including new look opening pair Ryan Covey (62) and teenager Abhay Gonella (54), pictured, whose 115-run partnership set the platform for a big total.
Scott Myers (53) and Dan Harris, whose 57 was his first fifty of a lean season,  progressed the Alton score, while South African offie all-rounder Hilio De Abreu's 5-72 return included all four half-centurions.
Joe Collings-Wells (62) and Richard Lock (57) took the Burridge reply to 141-3, but the last seven wickets fell for 48 runs . Burridge were dismissed for 189.

Teenagers Tom Prest, with his second Premier Division century in the past four weeks, and George Metzger’s unbeaten 80 swept the Hampshire Academy to a seven-wicket win, which put an untimely dent in Bashley Rydal’s bid to land a maiden championship.
The pair shared a 139-run partnership as the Academy cruised past Bashley’s 214 all out with some comfort.
Bashley’s second defeat of the season led to their lead over Lymington at the top of the ECB Southern Premier Division title being trimmed to 11 points.
Bashley never really got any shape to their innings and were on the back foot directly makeshift opening pair Tom Jacques and Alex Turner were removed before the score got into double figures.
Michael Porter (48) steadied things, adding 56 with the out-of-touch Ben Walker, who is desperate for a return to form having made only 23 runs in his past five knocks.
Tom Friend (56) did his best to glue the middle-order together, his partnership with Chris Vaughan (17) taking Bashley to 128-4 before the Academy’s spin attack created further inroads, three more wickets falling for 14 runs. 
The subsequent 82-run partnership between George Wilson (29) and George Pardoe (41 not out) ensured Bashley had a reasonable total to defend, but Ajeet Dale (4-40) took the last three wickets in four balls to negate them bettering 214 all out.
Prest took the initiative for the Academy, scoring 37 while Tom South and Fletcha Middleton departed, but those dismissals were the last joy Bashley enjoyed for some while.
The Canford prodigy moved serenely on, hitting one six and nine fours, and enjoying the century stand with ECB Young Lions bound Metzger, who also breached the boundary rope nine times.
Shortly after completing his fifth hundred of the season, Prest fell to the part-time spin of Alex Turner, one of eight bowlers Porter tried in a vain attempt to stave off defeat.

Seven Southern Premier League cricketers hit centuries in yesterday’s round 11 matches, while there were nine separate ‘five-for’ bowling returns.   
Pick of the day –
• 121* – Sam Platter, Rowledge v Calmore Sports
• 108* - Jack Davies, Portsmouth & Southsea v Hambledon
• 106 – Max Curtis, St Cross Symondians v Havant
• 103* - Will Allam, Tichborne Park v Fawley
• 103 – Tom Prest, Hampshire Academy v Bashley (Rydal)
• 100 – Arthur Godsal, South Wilts v Basingstoke & North Hants
• 100 – Suman Ganguly, Liphook & Ripsley v Totton & Eling
• 6-13 – Luke Cornish, Fareham & Crofton v Trojans
• 6-17 – Chris Wood, OTs & Romsey v Ventnor
• 6-71 – Brad Porteous, Basingstoke & North Hants v South Wilts
• 5-26 – Daniel Moore, Hook & Newnham Basics v Portsmouth
• 5-37 – Matt Metcalfe, Lymington v Bournemouth
• 5-37 – James Wade, South Wilts II v Basingstoke & North Hants II
• 5-53 – Ben Saunders, Portsmouth & Southsea v Hambledon
• 5-58 – Marvin Williams, St Cross Symondians v Havant
• 5-72 – Hilio De Abreu, Burridge v Alton

Hampshire Academy batsman/wicketkeeper George Metzger has been chosen to play for an ECB Young Lions invitation side against Bangladesh and India Under-19s at Loughborough on Thursday and Friday.
The Basingstoke-raised teenager hit an unbeaten 80 in the Academy's seven-wicket win over Bashley (Rydal) yesterday, having helped the county Under-17s reach last weekend's ECB age group final.
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