Sway 200-9, Fawley 89ao. Sway won by 111 runs

Sway finished a pretty decent Tony Woodhouse campaign with a comprehensive win against Fawley. With one win and two draws it was just the opening day defeat to Hythe that prevented Sway retaining the Trophy.

With so many absences Sway were ironically forced into selecting some of the more experienced youngsters - and Fawley, with exactly the opposite problem always looked likely to struggle. Skipper Matt Bramwell won the toss and elected to bat. Groundsman James Howard was sent out as a night watchman to partner Pete Bennet and was left to face one of Sway's bogeyman bowlers in the form of previously floppy-haired paceman Ian McIlhenney. McIlhenny was bowling considerably below his normal pace - partly perhaps due to the young keeper, but also as the humid conditions would be conducive to swing. Sure enough a banana of a delivery saw Dapper's bails dislodged for a duck. Sam Nailor then joined the action and was clearly scratching around for a bit of form. Runs at either end were very hard to come by, however, wickets remained intact. Slowly but surely the run-rate increased and Bennet & Nailor put on a monster stand of 131 for the 2nd wicket before Nailor was eventually bowled for 42. Then came the first of two golden ducks as a rather inpatient Rob Steadman edged a McInhenny delivery to the keeper. Bennet meanwhile was ratcheting up the pace, passing 50 and going on to equal his highest score for the club of 79 before eventually holing out.

FJ Charton then equalled Rob Steadman's dismal effort with another golden duck leaving David Steadman and Dave Marshall  the crease to bat out the last few overs. By now the runs were really flowing as both players are pretty quick between the sticks. Steadman was bowled for 16 going for a big slog and was replaced by Bramwell who notched up the 4th duck of the innings.. Martin Symons then joined Marshall and the quick scoring continued - the shot of the day being a superb drive through covers by Symons. During this partnership, a freak delivery resulted in probably the highest no ball ever seen at Jubilee Field - a beemer flying a good 12 feet over the batsman's head. Despite runs being available, both batsmen and fielders stood and watched in amazement. Symons was eventually bowled by McIlhenny to notch up his 4th wicket of the innings - and also makes him the greatest wicket taker against Sway ever with a total of 29 wickets, one ahead of Ringwood's Colin Cooper. In the end Sway finished up on an impressive 200-9 with Marshall racking up a  quick fire 30no.

If Fawley ever had any ambition of chasing down the Sway score, this evaporated when both their openers fell cheaply. L Read was run out following some sharp fielding at gully by Marshall and S Clark was caught behind by Bennet off Rob Steadman, and wickets continued to fall at regular intervals. An excellent spell by David Steadman of 6-3-17-0 went unjustly without rewarded as did decent spells from Symons and Andy Straw. James Howard bowled an accurate spell (4-1-15-1) and deservedly picked up a wicket. Nailor (4-1-6-2) and Bramwell (6.5-2-12-2) were perhaps the pick of the bowlers - both bowling with pace and accuracy. As the Fawley wickets fell they became increasing reliant on youngsters, however, as the overs remaining ebbed away it looked like Fawley might hang on for a draw. With the sun setting low over the Shelborne end refracting off his barnet-free head, Sway turned to the bowling machine that is Dave Hurrell. Not one, but two Fawley youngsters were bamboozled by the pace, height and spin and the hatrick ball was only narrowly kept out. Despite a valiant effort by young J Barnes (23*), Fawley ran out of batsmen with just a few overs remaining, skipper Bramwell picking up the final wicket of this season's competition.