Three points continue to separate Sarisbury Athletic and Hook & Newnham Basics, who are scrapping it out for the Southern Premier League Division 1 title.
Leaders Sarisbury posted a towering 347-4 before crushing relegation bound Totton & Eling by 295 runs at Southern Gardens.
But Hook were forced to sweat out an all-too-close six run win over Liphook & Ripsley after the East Hants side made 251 chasing the visitors’ 257-7.
Basil Akram (76) and Matt Journeaux (44) set the scene for a Sarisbury run glut, sharing an opening stand of 126 at brake neck speed.
The openers were back in the pavilion at 136-2, but that was the cue for Harry Hovey (91) and left-hander Jack Lovett (75) to blaze a 142-run stand, the pair hitting four sixes and 21 fours between them.
A quck-fire knock from Sam Floyd (35) saw Sarisbury to 347-4.
Batted and bruised in the field, Totton simply fell apart, six batsmen collecting ducks as Shayne Freemantle bagged 5-15 in their 52 all out.
Liphook & Ripsley, whose season has faded after a bright three-match winning start, were poised to put a serious dent in Hook & Newnham Basics’ title ambitions – until they suffered a mass batting collapse.
Chasing Hook’s 257-7, they were confident of winning at 228-3 – but lost their last seven wickets for 23 runs !
Farnborough Sixth Form College student Harry Warner almost celebrated his SPL debut with a century, carrying his bat for 94 as Hook made 257-7 at Ripsley Park.
Harry Came (23), Matt Love (21) and later Jordan Hobday (39) and Matt Buckingham (34) batted around him to gove Hook a maximum batting bonus point haul.
Giles Cover led Liphook’s reply with 102 (two sixes and 13 fours), initially enjoying a fruitful partnership with Gab Broadhurst (34) and then Suman Ganguly, whose run-a-ball 56 put Liphook in with a great shout.
But a remarkable collapse saw Liphook’s innings disintegrate and the side slump to 251 all out.
Third-placed Andover bounced back from their previous week’s mauling at Sarisbury to beat visiting OTs & Romsey by 163 runs.
Andover’s batsmen had failed at Allotment Road, but with James O’Gorman hitting 85 and Will Arnold an unbeaten 61, they posted 258-6 at London Road.
Iain Woodall (43), Harry Tulk (38) and Elliot Mitchell-Lea (35) responded, but a five-wicket spell by Babu Veettil (5-30) saw the visitors dismissed for 185.
Teenage Western Australian Fraser Hay blasted the Bournemouth bowlers for a sizzling 159 in the Southsea sunshine, where Portsmouth won by 57 runs.
Hay, who plays First Grade cricket for Melville in Perth and who has been playing regularly for Hampshire Second XI this season, smashed five sixes and 21 fours in his 159, which pointed Portsmouth to 249 all out.
Chris Park (55) and Ben Brigden (47) replied for Bournemouth, who were undone by Vickram Dawson (5-26) and Rajeev Verma (4-40), and bowled out for 192.
Basingstoke & North Hants left-hander Craig Williamson hit a season’s best 94 to carry the Bountymen to a seven-wicket win at Rowledge, who earlier made 203 (Sam Moseley 50).
Leaders Sarisbury posted a towering 347-4 before crushing relegation bound Totton & Eling by 295 runs at Southern Gardens.
But Hook were forced to sweat out an all-too-close six run win over Liphook & Ripsley after the East Hants side made 251 chasing the visitors’ 257-7.
Basil Akram (76) and Matt Journeaux (44) set the scene for a Sarisbury run glut, sharing an opening stand of 126 at brake neck speed.
The openers were back in the pavilion at 136-2, but that was the cue for Harry Hovey (91) and left-hander Jack Lovett (75) to blaze a 142-run stand, the pair hitting four sixes and 21 fours between them.
A quck-fire knock from Sam Floyd (35) saw Sarisbury to 347-4.
Batted and bruised in the field, Totton simply fell apart, six batsmen collecting ducks as Shayne Freemantle bagged 5-15 in their 52 all out.
Liphook & Ripsley, whose season has faded after a bright three-match winning start, were poised to put a serious dent in Hook & Newnham Basics’ title ambitions – until they suffered a mass batting collapse.
Chasing Hook’s 257-7, they were confident of winning at 228-3 – but lost their last seven wickets for 23 runs !
Farnborough Sixth Form College student Harry Warner almost celebrated his SPL debut with a century, carrying his bat for 94 as Hook made 257-7 at Ripsley Park.
Harry Came (23), Matt Love (21) and later Jordan Hobday (39) and Matt Buckingham (34) batted around him to gove Hook a maximum batting bonus point haul.
Giles Cover led Liphook’s reply with 102 (two sixes and 13 fours), initially enjoying a fruitful partnership with Gab Broadhurst (34) and then Suman Ganguly, whose run-a-ball 56 put Liphook in with a great shout.
But a remarkable collapse saw Liphook’s innings disintegrate and the side slump to 251 all out.
Third-placed Andover bounced back from their previous week’s mauling at Sarisbury to beat visiting OTs & Romsey by 163 runs.
Andover’s batsmen had failed at Allotment Road, but with James O’Gorman hitting 85 and Will Arnold an unbeaten 61, they posted 258-6 at London Road.
Iain Woodall (43), Harry Tulk (38) and Elliot Mitchell-Lea (35) responded, but a five-wicket spell by Babu Veettil (5-30) saw the visitors dismissed for 185.
Teenage Western Australian Fraser Hay blasted the Bournemouth bowlers for a sizzling 159 in the Southsea sunshine, where Portsmouth won by 57 runs.
Hay, who plays First Grade cricket for Melville in Perth and who has been playing regularly for Hampshire Second XI this season, smashed five sixes and 21 fours in his 159, which pointed Portsmouth to 249 all out.
Chris Park (55) and Ben Brigden (47) replied for Bournemouth, who were undone by Vickram Dawson (5-26) and Rajeev Verma (4-40), and bowled out for 192.
Basingstoke & North Hants left-hander Craig Williamson hit a season’s best 94 to carry the Bountymen to a seven-wicket win at Rowledge, who earlier made 203 (Sam Moseley 50).