Battle e resumes in the Basingstoke & North Hants-Calmore Sports joust for British Gas Southern League Division One superiority.
The pair are locked together on 175 points at the top of the table – and will expect to win tomorrow’s matches against relegation threatened opposition.
Basingstoke, who won their first silverware of the season by beating Cove in the local Aylward T20 Cup final in midweek, host Rowledge, while Calmore entertain Tichborne Park.
Will Phillips (pictured) returns from his travels for Basingstoke, but second from bottom Rowledge are without opener Nick Morant.
Rowledge shocked Basingstoke with one of their only three wins earlier in the season, but player/coach David Griffiths is in a defiant mood about the return leg.
“That won’t happen again,” he forecast. “Every game and every point is crucial now and we’ll be giving it everything to win the league and go up into the Premier Division.”
Basingstoke & North Hants: Belcher, Froud, Stokes, Phillips, Metzger, Deadman, B Neal, Griffiths, James, Thankachan, A Neal.
Rowledge: B Wish, J Wish, Randall, Treble, Metcalfe, Plater, Swan, Lloyd, S Martin, Keeley, Yates snr.
Bottom side Tichborne Park visit Loperwood Park with a potentially weakened side to face joint leaders Calmore Sports. Martin Cheyney, Hector Don and Ben Allen are among the absentees for an Alresford side already 30 points adrift at the bottom.
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Cook, Perry, Johns, Manning, Rutter, Proudley, Rose, West, Newton, Croft.
Tichborne Park: W Allam, T Allam, Berry, Hector Don, Skinner, Ayling, Pritchard, Pond, Bristow, Gunaratne, Long.
Ben Thane, captain of fourth-placed Hook & Newnham Basics, describes the home match with Ventnor at the KGV as ‘massive’.”
“We’re 18 points behind the top two, so winning every game from now on is crucial,” he says.
Hook & Newnham Basics: Thane, Love, J Buckingham, M Buckingham, N Willcock, Thomson, Willcock, Franklin, Brewer, Divecha, Poulter.
Emirates bound Matt Journeaux misses Sarisbury Athletic’s visit to Portsmouth, but leaves stand-in skipper Ricky Rawlins with a tasty new-ball attack. Scotsman Chris Sole makes his SPL1 debut for Sarisbury. Ironically, Portsmouth are without their captain, Richard Locke.
Sarisbury Athletic: Rawlins, Floyd, Sole, Lovett, Mitcheson, J Hill, Wright, Freemantle, Sampson, S Hill, Jewell.
The pair are locked together on 175 points at the top of the table – and will expect to win tomorrow’s matches against relegation threatened opposition.
Basingstoke, who won their first silverware of the season by beating Cove in the local Aylward T20 Cup final in midweek, host Rowledge, while Calmore entertain Tichborne Park.
Will Phillips (pictured) returns from his travels for Basingstoke, but second from bottom Rowledge are without opener Nick Morant.
Rowledge shocked Basingstoke with one of their only three wins earlier in the season, but player/coach David Griffiths is in a defiant mood about the return leg.
“That won’t happen again,” he forecast. “Every game and every point is crucial now and we’ll be giving it everything to win the league and go up into the Premier Division.”
Basingstoke & North Hants: Belcher, Froud, Stokes, Phillips, Metzger, Deadman, B Neal, Griffiths, James, Thankachan, A Neal.
Rowledge: B Wish, J Wish, Randall, Treble, Metcalfe, Plater, Swan, Lloyd, S Martin, Keeley, Yates snr.
Bottom side Tichborne Park visit Loperwood Park with a potentially weakened side to face joint leaders Calmore Sports. Martin Cheyney, Hector Don and Ben Allen are among the absentees for an Alresford side already 30 points adrift at the bottom.
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Cook, Perry, Johns, Manning, Rutter, Proudley, Rose, West, Newton, Croft.
Tichborne Park: W Allam, T Allam, Berry, Hector Don, Skinner, Ayling, Pritchard, Pond, Bristow, Gunaratne, Long.
Ben Thane, captain of fourth-placed Hook & Newnham Basics, describes the home match with Ventnor at the KGV as ‘massive’.”
“We’re 18 points behind the top two, so winning every game from now on is crucial,” he says.
Hook & Newnham Basics: Thane, Love, J Buckingham, M Buckingham, N Willcock, Thomson, Willcock, Franklin, Brewer, Divecha, Poulter.
Emirates bound Matt Journeaux misses Sarisbury Athletic’s visit to Portsmouth, but leaves stand-in skipper Ricky Rawlins with a tasty new-ball attack. Scotsman Chris Sole makes his SPL1 debut for Sarisbury. Ironically, Portsmouth are without their captain, Richard Locke.
Sarisbury Athletic: Rawlins, Floyd, Sole, Lovett, Mitcheson, J Hill, Wright, Freemantle, Sampson, S Hill, Jewell.
