The Downtown Deli Cup finalists are confirmed as Cockermouth Academicals and Windscale Club, Seascale.

It was Windscale Club, Seascale who completed a clean sweep in the Southside of the draw after surpassing Whitehaven Colts 111-9 with five wickets in hand.

Steve Woodhead (31 ret) and Will Benson (30 ret) were the main contributors as the Seascale bowlers shared the wickets around: Harvey Browning (2-18), Alan Birkett (2-14) and Adam Brown (2-12).

Their 112-5 included three retirements – Robin Sparshott (31), Steve Brown junior (31) and Pete Rooney (30).

Cockermouth Academicals posted 106-5 at Broughton thanks to Ryan Carruthers’ 32 retired and Graham Sparke’s 25. Gary Graham was the main-stay of the Broughton reply with 29 as first James Simmonds (2-30) made inroads into the batting and Paul Heap (2-0) polished them off.

Distington routed BCMS for 60 as four bowlers shared the wickets: Adam Chambers (3-3), Mark Chambers (2-8) Charlie Gallacher (2-5) and Anthony Kirk (2-3), the home side had little trouble reaching 61-3 thanks to Chambers (30 ret).

WCLS scored even fewer as Royal George bundled them out for 57 with James Schwartzer (2-7) and Chris Simons (2-9) paving the way for Andrew Dodds (3-0) to complete the demolition job. John Burns’ 3-7 applied pressure to the visitors, but Neil Carruthers’ 20 allowed them to make 58-5.

Braithwaite were the heaviest scorers of the week racking up 166-7 with Phil Knight and Harry Rigby both making 30 retired. Andy Rigby (22) and Chris Hodgson (32 ret) were also to the fore.

Only two Allonby batsmen reached 20 - Adam Johnson (22) and Ben Kyte (33 ret) as the visitors’ opening batsmen Knight (2-11) and Harry Rigby (2-2) completed fine all round games.

Seascale Juniors amassed 138-7 on the back of three scores; Alan Kirkham 34 ret, Jack Graham 30 ret & Jack Stubbings 28, Nathan Wood (3-13) was the most successful bowler. He was also the top scorer for Workington Juniors with 31 ret out of a total of 127-6, Matthew Lowden added 21 before Andrew Knott with 2-0 sealed victory.

Isel only took one wicket in the first 15 overs as Phil Armstrong (34 ret), Phil Smart (28) and Kristian Moffat (30 ret) set Sandwith Roofing up for a 200+ score, but Terry Johnstone with 3-19 left Neil Talbot stranded on 29 not out as they were dismissed for 153.

The Gate brothers apart, John (29) and James (30 ret), Isel never threatened and closedg well adrift at 116-5. Moffat picked up 2-6.

The Baggrow 2 versus Maryport and the Sandwith Roofing v Allonby matches were unplayed.

The final DDC tables, Baggrow 2, Distington & Maryport all -5 for one unfulfilled fixture each.

Northside
30 Cockermouth Academicals
27 Braithwaite
22 Sandwith Roofing
20 Isel
17 Broughton
8 Maryport
7 Allonby
2 Baggrow 2

Southside
35 Windscale Club, Seascale
30 Royal George
17 Seacale Juniors
17 Whitehaven Colts
15 WCLS
12 BCMS
4 Distington
2 Workington Juniors

The Sandwith Roofing Cup quarter final between Allonby and Cockermouth Academicals resulted in a comfortable win for the visitors.

Accies dismissed Allonby for Nelson - 111, with three retirements Richard Burrough (20), Adam Johnson (23) and Anthony Andrews (23). Paul Heap continued to be amongst the wickets this time bagging 3-5 while Hugh Carter picked up 2-11.

Accies were troubled by Andrews who was rewarded with 2-4, but Jack Edmondson and Shakir Rajput, both with 20 retired, took Accies to 112-5 and a date with Isel in the semi-final.

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