Ventnor are in danger of being cast adrift at the ECB Southern Electric Premier League basement after suffering a sixth defeat in seven outings.
Alton beat them by six wickets at Newclose to leave Ventnor 18 points behind at the bottom.
Ventnor ran into trouble against the new ball, with Ben Mortimer (2-33) and Toby Salmon (2-25) reducing the hosts to 26-3 and later 55-4.
Tasmanian Sean Willis (57) kept the innings afloat, but once he became one of four victims of Julian Ballinger (4-16) - who has now taken 23 wickets this term - Ventnor subsided to 106-6 and later 125 all out.
Charlie Calloway (2-27) had a hand in the three wickets Alton lost before reaching 40, but any slim prospect of an Island victory was extinguished by Scott Myers (44) and Michael Heffernan (49 not out) who produced an unbroken 80-run stand.
Sarisbury Athletic suffered a third successive crushing defeat when Havant bowled them out for 95 to record a thumping 153-run Premier Division victory at Havant Park.
The losses are following a familiar theme, with Sarisbury’s bowlers conceding totals and then the top order batting caving in.
The morning session of the third Time pennant match was relatively encouraging as three wickets by left-arm seamer Dan Goldstraw (3-62) had Havant tucking into their lunch an uncertain 125-5 (Peter Hopson 31).
But Chris Morgan (70) and Stuart Ransley (53) added 87 immediately after the break to take Havant’s score to 248-7 after 64 overs.
Sarisbury’s reply took an all too characteristic route – six down for 43, with stand-in skipper Ricky Rawlins, Ryan Covey and Zimbabwean Ryan Burl all cocooned in a run drought.
Ben Walker (2-19), Brad Wheal (2-26) and Cameron Prentice (2-12) ripped out the top order, leaving Kieron Geyle (21) and the evergreen Mark Miller (23) to chisel out an eventual 95 (Richard Hindley 3-3) for the visitors.
St Cross Symondians got their roller-coaster season back on track with a 93-run win over Burridge at the Green Jackets Ground.
Guernsey Island pace all-rounder James Nussbaumer (3-36) whipped out openers Tom Foyle and Ed Young before St Cross had 30 runs on the board.
But New Zealander Michael Pollard (71) shared handy partnerships with teenage Channel Islander Matt Stokes (21) before Adam Rouse (41), the former Hampshire cricketer, strengthened Symondians’ grip on the game.
Dan Stancliffe’s 4-26 spell saw St Cross dismissed for 235 – but, despite being a tidy 88-2 (Will Steward 31) at one stage, Burridge fell away to be 153 all out, with James Marsh (4-15) and Tabs Farooq (3-62) doing the damage.
Alton beat them by six wickets at Newclose to leave Ventnor 18 points behind at the bottom.
Ventnor ran into trouble against the new ball, with Ben Mortimer (2-33) and Toby Salmon (2-25) reducing the hosts to 26-3 and later 55-4.
Tasmanian Sean Willis (57) kept the innings afloat, but once he became one of four victims of Julian Ballinger (4-16) - who has now taken 23 wickets this term - Ventnor subsided to 106-6 and later 125 all out.
Charlie Calloway (2-27) had a hand in the three wickets Alton lost before reaching 40, but any slim prospect of an Island victory was extinguished by Scott Myers (44) and Michael Heffernan (49 not out) who produced an unbroken 80-run stand.
Sarisbury Athletic suffered a third successive crushing defeat when Havant bowled them out for 95 to record a thumping 153-run Premier Division victory at Havant Park.
The losses are following a familiar theme, with Sarisbury’s bowlers conceding totals and then the top order batting caving in.
The morning session of the third Time pennant match was relatively encouraging as three wickets by left-arm seamer Dan Goldstraw (3-62) had Havant tucking into their lunch an uncertain 125-5 (Peter Hopson 31).
But Chris Morgan (70) and Stuart Ransley (53) added 87 immediately after the break to take Havant’s score to 248-7 after 64 overs.
Sarisbury’s reply took an all too characteristic route – six down for 43, with stand-in skipper Ricky Rawlins, Ryan Covey and Zimbabwean Ryan Burl all cocooned in a run drought.
Ben Walker (2-19), Brad Wheal (2-26) and Cameron Prentice (2-12) ripped out the top order, leaving Kieron Geyle (21) and the evergreen Mark Miller (23) to chisel out an eventual 95 (Richard Hindley 3-3) for the visitors.
St Cross Symondians got their roller-coaster season back on track with a 93-run win over Burridge at the Green Jackets Ground.
Guernsey Island pace all-rounder James Nussbaumer (3-36) whipped out openers Tom Foyle and Ed Young before St Cross had 30 runs on the board.
But New Zealander Michael Pollard (71) shared handy partnerships with teenage Channel Islander Matt Stokes (21) before Adam Rouse (41), the former Hampshire cricketer, strengthened Symondians’ grip on the game.
Dan Stancliffe’s 4-26 spell saw St Cross dismissed for 235 – but, despite being a tidy 88-2 (Will Steward 31) at one stage, Burridge fell away to be 153 all out, with James Marsh (4-15) and Tabs Farooq (3-62) doing the damage.
