Calmore Sports, newly promoted as last season’s Division 2 champions, could be outright British Gas Southern League First Division leaders by tomorrow evening.
That’s if they win their home match with Ventnor at Loperwood Park and Bournemouth are beaten by Basingstoke & North Hants in the top three showdown at May’s Bounty.
Calmore already share top spot on 87 points from five games with Bournemouth.
They won by 24 runs at Tichborne Park last week, with left-arm spin skipper Mark Lavelle returning a career and SPL best 8-17.
Lavelle is forced to tweak the Calmore side tomorrow as Tom Pegler and key late-order seam all-rounder Paul Proudley are missing. Dan Croft and Matt Taylor come in, while Ventnor’s side includes potentially explosive South African Sian Van Greunen. Ventnor have a Corbin in their line-up, but it's yet to be confirmed he's any relation to the other one ...
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Cook, Johns, Perry, Rutter, Manning, Rose, Taylor, West, Newton, Croft.
Ventnor: Snell, Woodhouse, Van Greunen, Miller, Cheek, H Calloway, Corbin, Blackman, A Horton, Zeph Wells, Willis
Sarisbury Athletic, with players injured or unavailable, give another opportunity to 15-year old Jamie Mills for the demanding visit to Hook & Newnham Basics, who are picked up after a poor start.
Sarisbury Athletic: Journeaux, Rawlins, Floyd, Bond, Sanders, Hill, Dunn, Wright, Challis, Allmark, Jewell.
All-rounder David Lloyd returns for Rowledge, who boosted their prospects of moving away from the SPL1 danger area with a first win against Basingstoke & North Hants last week.
On the eve of their trip to Southsea seafront to play Portsmouth, skipper Ben Wish said: “We haven’t played badly at all. Last week we put a total on the board and our spinners bowled well to defend it.”
Rowledge: Morant, Gleave, Treble, Lloyd, Metcalfe, Martin, J Wish, B Wish, Randall, Keeley, Yates Snr.
That’s if they win their home match with Ventnor at Loperwood Park and Bournemouth are beaten by Basingstoke & North Hants in the top three showdown at May’s Bounty.
Calmore already share top spot on 87 points from five games with Bournemouth.
They won by 24 runs at Tichborne Park last week, with left-arm spin skipper Mark Lavelle returning a career and SPL best 8-17.
Lavelle is forced to tweak the Calmore side tomorrow as Tom Pegler and key late-order seam all-rounder Paul Proudley are missing. Dan Croft and Matt Taylor come in, while Ventnor’s side includes potentially explosive South African Sian Van Greunen. Ventnor have a Corbin in their line-up, but it's yet to be confirmed he's any relation to the other one ...
Calmore Sports: Lavelle, Cook, Johns, Perry, Rutter, Manning, Rose, Taylor, West, Newton, Croft.
Ventnor: Snell, Woodhouse, Van Greunen, Miller, Cheek, H Calloway, Corbin, Blackman, A Horton, Zeph Wells, Willis
Sarisbury Athletic, with players injured or unavailable, give another opportunity to 15-year old Jamie Mills for the demanding visit to Hook & Newnham Basics, who are picked up after a poor start.
Sarisbury Athletic: Journeaux, Rawlins, Floyd, Bond, Sanders, Hill, Dunn, Wright, Challis, Allmark, Jewell.
All-rounder David Lloyd returns for Rowledge, who boosted their prospects of moving away from the SPL1 danger area with a first win against Basingstoke & North Hants last week.
On the eve of their trip to Southsea seafront to play Portsmouth, skipper Ben Wish said: “We haven’t played badly at all. Last week we put a total on the board and our spinners bowled well to defend it.”
Rowledge: Morant, Gleave, Treble, Lloyd, Metcalfe, Martin, J Wish, B Wish, Randall, Keeley, Yates Snr.
