Kearsley pulled off a sensational last ball win over championship challenging Westhoughton - with just a little help from David White.

The all-rounder produced an almost perfect performance in a match that at one stage never looked as though it would be finished.

Rain delayed Westhoughton's innings to the point that it was only completed at 7.10pm but White had already made his mark by then, taking five wickets and four catches.

That left Kearsley only 20 overs in the time remaining to overhaul Westhoughton's 156, but they signalled their intention to go for the runs as Steve Dublin blasted 68 off only 24 balls.

White then took up the challenge with a lightening half century but his side still needed eight to win off the last two balls.

No problem!

White followed the script perfectly to hit two winning boundaries and rounded off the day with an unbeaten 62, giving his side a two-wicket win and 20 points.

Westhoughton's demise and Walkden's failure to beat Farnworth Social Circle allowed Greenmount to move into second place in the table behind Tonge.

They had the better of a draw at Bradshaw, pro Richard Chee Quee hitting a quick-fire 69 off 33 deliveries. At the other end, teenager Robbie Edmundson shone against his old club with 47 in partnership with the professional which earned Greenmount a total of 190-6. Bradshaw looked capable of matching that as Neil Johnson and David Morris replied with 70-0 off nine overs. However that quickly became 72-3, those wickets falling in one over, before Johnson and Mark Gwilt rescued the situation.

They both hit 58 in a partnership of 89 but again Greenmount hit back to take three wickets for one run and the Bradshaw's reply faded out at 180-7.

Walkden never really got to grips with Farnworth Social Circle in a rain-affected match at the Oval.

Circle hit 158-7 with Walkden 135-7 in reply, Neal hitting 63.

Little Lever's game at Eagley was rain affected. Lever totalled 157-8 before taking a wicket with the first ball of the Eagley innings. Pro Mel Whittle had 4-34 off 20 overs but Mark Ward, who returned to Eagley from Little Lever a couple of weeks ago, was undefeated from start to finish for 43 not out in a shortened innings total of 89-6.

AUSSIE teenager Matthew Bode fell six runs short of completing his sixth successive half century as leaders Tonge struggled to a draw at Farnworth.

Bode was caught by the man who achieved the feat last season, Brad Hodge, who ironically was the fellow Australian Bode wanted to do well against.

He started off impressively by having Hodge stumped for 52 off his bowling but his final return of 5-55 was put in the shade by yet another man from Down Under, Farnworth's overseas amateur Tim Hooper who scored 92 in his side's 204-7.

Dick Powell's bowling then had Tonge in trouble and his 5-63 return left the leaders hanging on at 157-8 with Carl Goddard ready to bat only if needed after breaking a finger while fielding. As well as 44 from Bode, the other main contributor to Tonge's total was Jim Aspden who hit 42.

Egerton pro Wayne Harper had a good day in the drawn game against Astley Bridge hitting an unbeaten 101 and taking 4-34.

Harper figured in an opening stand with Chuck O'Rourke of 101 to lay the foundation for an Egerton total of 239-3.

Bridge started well with Rick Northrop hitting 62 in a partnership of 82 with Ian Warren but could not keep up with the asking rate and the innings finished at 169-7.

Horwich pulled off the shock of the day in Saturday's League programme, bowling out title contenders Heaton for a meagre 49.

Dave Tattersall and Darren Preston were the heroes as Horwich successfully defended a total of only 119.

They both took four wickets, the Heaton innings collapsing on a wicket that saw a total of 19 wickets fall for only 168 runs.

Tattersall finished with impressive figures of 4-18 while Preston had 4-26.

Earlier Heaton looked as though they had the match for the taking after restricting Horwich to 119-9. Pro Chris Sainsbury took 5-48 but Horwich's South African teenager Zubia Garda was unbeaten on 57.

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