South Lincs and Border League round-up
A five-wicket haul from Stuart Biggs helped Burghley Park to open up a 50-point advantage at the top of the South Lincs and Border League Championship table on Saturday.
Biggs took 5-28 from 6.1 overs as the table-toppers beat Bourne 2nds by eight wickets at the Abbey Lawn.
Chris Logan and Mohammed Azhar both bagged a brace each as Bourne were bowled out for 134 after being put into bat with opener Ben Woodward top-scoring with 33.
Burghley openers Michael Hobbins (34) and Lando Thain (39) led the reply before Hamish Bell steered them to victory with an unbeaten 29.
With second-placed Moulton Harrox not having a game at the weekend, Burghley are in a strong position at the top of the table with three league games remaining.
Dan Hughes hit an unbeaten century as Division One leaders Ketton Sports secured an emphatic home win over Royal Boston.
Hughes finished on 163 not out while Charles Anslow added 38 as Sports set 284-7 from their 45 overs.
Jonathan Smith and Marcus McDevitt then led the Ketton attack with 3-6 and 3-8 respectively as Boston were bowled out for 77 in reply.
Ancaster are Ketton's closest challengers and they beat Long Sutton 2nds by five wickets.
Market Deeping 2nds beat Woodhall Spa by 96 runs after dismissing their visitors for 134 having made 230 after batting first.
Moulton Harrox 2nds were handed the points in their Division Two tussle with Newborough who conceded their clash.
They remain 44 points behind league leaders Burghley Park 2nds who beat Belton Park by an emphatic 214 runs.
Andy Briault blasted 26 boundaries in his 145 while fellow opener Josh Gallimore scored 93 in a 226-run opening stand.
Chris Armstrong (37) and David Platt (29) helped propel Park to a final total of 335-4 from their 45 overs.
Belton were bowled out for 121 in reply with Charlie Biggs claiming 4-11 from 6.5 overs while Simon Sherwin returned 3-23.
Billingborough 2nds remain in the bottom two after being beaten by eight wickets in their match with Skegness.
Chris King top-scored with 33 as Billingborough were bowled out for 98 with Skegness passing the target inside 21 overs.
Baston are just outside the danger zone after losing by five wickets at Grantham 3rds.
They were bowled out for 164 after batting first with opener Jonathan Digby making 32 for Baston.
Pete Sampson returned 3-8 from a fantastic five-over spell but Grantham had the win wrapped up by the 33rd over.
Ketton Sports 2nds suffered a heavy defeat in their top of the table Division Three clash with Royal Boston 2nds.
Peter Taylor had taken 4-15 while Gus Woodfield claimed 3-17 as Royal Boston were bowled out for 110.
However, Ketton crashed to 38 all out in reply with Declan Whaley the only batter to make double figures after scoring 15 as Vishnu Veetil took 6-14 for the league leaders.
Uffington were leapfrogged by Freiston 2nds after losing their match by four wickets.
Openers JJ Harrison (34) and Kristian Ramsier (41) had helped Uffington reach 175 before they were bowled out.
Sam Scott took two wickets in the Freiston reply but the hosts triumphed in the 39th over to move into third spot.
