Three of the four games in the Kirkland Carpets League Division One were close – but the fourth certainly wasn’t.

Windscale Club, Seascale beat Cockermouth Colts by 99 runs after rattling up 158, largely through Paul Knott (28), Lee Fleet (32 ret), Robin Sparshott (33 ret) and Pete Rooney (23).

Alex Stott took an admirable 4-20 for the Colts but they were bowled-out for a modest 59 in reply. Knott (2-4) and Rooney (2-6) were among the wickets as well while Steve Brown senior took 2-8.

The tightest game saw Egremont beat BCMS by 11 runs i9n a match which was always tightly contested.

Egremont made 110-6 in their allotted overs and that owed a lot to Peter Thompson (43) and Joel Schwarzer (29). Andrew Ireland (2-14) and Mike Yeoman (2-19) did best with the ball for BCMS.

Yeoman (35) and Steven Miller (32 ret) led the BCMS response but they had only reached 99-5 at the close. Graham Salisbury took 2-16 for Egremont.

Sandwith Roofing beat Royal George by 19 runs after they had chalked-up 107-8 on first use of the wicket.

Kristian Moffat (31 ret) and David Pears (30 ret) were the leading run-makers for Sandwith Roofing with Andrew Dodds (2-7) and David Chisnall (2-15) among the wickets for the Workington pub side.

David Chisnall (30 ret) and Graham Cook (21) offered the most threat from Royal George but they were only 88-8 at the close. Moffat (2-5) and Pears (2-19) were the main wicket-takers.

There were 18 runs between Braithwaite Colts and Isel after a game which had produced 248 of them.

The Colts reached 133-8 with Phil Knight top-scoring on 31 retired while Gerald Bowe took 3-27 and Terry Johnstone had 3-18.

Isel made 115-7 led by John Gate (37) and Alan Brown (36) with Gilbert Pyke (2-6), and Chris Hodgson (2-7 ) putting in good bowling stints for Isel.

The West Cumberland Law Society were the clearest winners in Division two as they bowled-out Distington for 53. Gary Quinn had the season’s best bowling performance so far with 5-3 while Paul States took 2-12.

The Society’s openers knocked off the runs without being parted.

Cockermouth Academicals were among the runs against Seascale Juniors, reaching 160-3 in their allotted overs. Hugh Carter (37), Keith Lockwood (36no), Peter French (32) and Graham Sparke (27) were the leading batsmen.

The Juniors could only manage 75-5 in reply.

Dan Pyke had a good personal match for Baggrow in their five wicket win against Allonby.

He took 2-14 when Allonby made 108-5 and then top-scored with 33 retired as Baggrow responded with 109-5.

Adam Johnson (38) and Rob Graham (2-11) were the leading performers for Allonby while Pyke had good support from Andrew Smith (2-7) and Callum Ward (28).

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