• Patchway make it a perfect 10

  By The Bristol Post at 05:00 on 24/05/13

  

  OPENERS Chris Hull (77) and Derry West (53) powered Patchway to an emphatic ten-wicket victory at Fry's in Division Four of the Bristol District League. The home side were restricted to just 131-6, with Alex Beere taking 3-16 from 12 overs, before skipper Hull and West clinched their side's first win of the campaign. It was a good day all-round for Patchway, as the club's 2nds were six-wicket home victors over Bristol Lions ,...

• Cleeve skipper helps dethrone Old Elizabethans

  By The Bristol Post at 05:00 on 24/05/13

  

  SKIPPER Anup Kolambkar blasted five fours and five sixes in a quickfire 74 to put Cleeve on course for a 61-run win at Old Elizabethans in the preliminary round of the Bristol & District Cup. The visitors reached 158-4, before Elizabethans were pegged back to 97-8, Glenn Lewin (2-12), James Cole (2-24) and Nitin Takyar (2-32) sharing the bowling honours. Cleeve will now be at home to Bristol Sri Lankans, who eased past St Mary...

• Thrilling cup final win the perfect compensation for Portishead

  By The Bristol Post at 09:00 on 23/05/13

  

  JOHN Filliter insisted that Portishead Town Reserves' dramatic cup final victory over Nailsea Town Reserves made up for the blow of failing to go up. His team were on course for a serious promotion tilt before a series of poor late-season results ended with a "frustrating" sixth-spot finish, one place above Nailsea on goal difference, in Division Two West. Tuesday night's showdown at Clevedon's Hand Stadium promised to be...

• As you were! Keynsham win a surprise reprieve from relegation

  By The Bristol Post at 05:00 on 23/05/13

  

  KEYNSHAM have been spared relegation from Western Counties North, despite finishing second from bottom. Two teams have been promoted into WCN from Somerset Premier – champions Chew Valley plus Midsomer Norton, who defeated Frampton Cotterell in a play-off. And Norton's success, combined with a customary round of geographical rebalancing across the South West league pyramid, all helped save Keynsham from the drop. Walcot have...

• Wright's ton with help from Fraser keeps Winscombe on top

  By Western Daily Press at 05:00 on 21/05/13

  

  LOCAL CRICKET Wally Wright and Jack Fraser powered Winscombe to a seven-wicket win at Clevedon to help their side make it three from three at the top of Premier Two in North Somerset's Sunday Conference. The visitors, needing a challenging 248, lost an early wicket, but skipper Jury Cureton (37) steadied the ship before a long partnership between Wright (103) and Fraser (70 not) saw their side home with a ball to spare. Earlier,...

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