Timsbury 2nd XI 248 Shirehampton 2nd XI 150 (Timsbury won by 98 runs)

Timsbury 2nd XI moved up to second place in the WEPL Bristol and North Somerset division with a comprehensive win at home to Shirehampton on Sunday.

It was a performance that again demonstrated the all-round strength of the team, with everyone making notable contributions.

After being put in to bat, the home side repaid the invitation by plundering 248 runs, losing their final wicket in the last of the 45 overs.

For the second week running, Callum Stewart was dismissed just short of his half-century for 48, while Declan Murphy's dream season continued with another important knock of 43, sharing an excellent sixth-wicket stand of 56 with Andrew Girvan, whose impressive 36 was his best innings of the season.

Lusty hitting from Ron Clothier (29) and Paul Cracknell (22) made it a hard afternoon in the field for the Bristol side, whose best bowling return came from Sam Phipps (4-53).

In reply, Shirehampton were never in the hunt. Skipper Steve Teall and Ian Ettle made early inroads into the visitors' reply and, after subsiding to 67-7, it needed a late flourish from the tailenders to take them to 150, with their final wicket falling in the last over.

Teall, who again led the team well, finished with 5-47, Ettle took 3-35 and there was a wicket each for Girvan and Aaron Stewart, who made a promising debut for the seconds. The match was sponsored by Nick Shore.

Timsbury Sunday XI 128 Hampset A XI 130-2 (Hampset won by eight wickets)

Having to play their 2nd XI fixture against Shirehampton on Sunday stretched Timsbury's resources to the limit and a young side found the going hard against a Hampset team that are going well in the league.

It was to the credit of skipper Neil Hucker that he got a side together, but they fell to an eight-wicket defeat.

Batting first, Hucker followed up his bowling heroics of the previous day by striking a lusty 31 and there was another promising knock from Will Brown, who enjoyed the surroundings of the school field for the second day in succession with a fine undefeated 35.

Fourteen-year-old Callum Jennings also batted well for his 15 but a total of 128 was soon put into perspective by the Bath side.

Richie Wright, who had been Hampset's most successful bowler with 3-17, then opened up the batting and finished unbeaten on 41.

He lost two early partners but the entry of Alex Lear saw the two forge a match-winning stand, with Lear finishing 66 not out.

The match was sponsored by the Seven Stars.