Sat 21st May

Sway 3rd edge past Lymo in tense derby

RD4SW Sway III 161, Lymington IV 147. Sway won by 13 runs

Electing to bat Sway lost early wickets to Lymington's young opening bowlers Nick Nineham and Nathan Smith however Will Woodfine looked in good form and hit four sweetly struck boundaries before surprisingly edging Josh Dunkley's third delivery to keeper Joe Quigley after making 22. Andy Glasspool finally got off the mark for the season and looked to be settling in when Lee Moors fooled him with a straight one trapping him lbw for 14, Andy Straw was joined by in form Will Baughan and a 47 run partnership ensued before both perished in successive overs, Baughan lbw to Smith for 26 then Straw was caught and bowled by Mark Thacker for 28. From looking likely to make a good total Sway now had to dig in however Dunkley (3-24) and Thacker (2-18) helped by Sam Harvey being run out cheaply meant that Sway collapsed to 161 all out after 37.1 overs.

Nineham and Quigley opened for Lymington and set off at a rapid pace taking 20 off the first 3 overs but Steve Drayton had Nineham caught at mid-off for 11 and Thacker came in at number 3. Straw injured an ankle and skipper Pete Hammett brought on John Wills who came out of retirement due to player shortages and the wily old veteran was soon back in the swing starting with a maiden. Quigley and Thacker although not quite working out Wills played well and took the score onto 75 in the 17th over when Thacker was caught and bowled by Wills for 19 and 5 runs later Quigley was superbly caught at 2nd slip by Drayton for 28 leaving Lymington relying mainly on the polished batting of Trevor Phillips. Wills finished his allotted spell picking up 2 more wickets to finish with the excellent figures of 10 6 9 4 and went down to the boundary to work out his forthcoming golfing dates whilst fellow veteran Phillips started to pick off boundaries hitting 9 in total before Tony Owen trapped him lbw for 42 in his first over. Sam Harvey joined in the wicket taking getting 2 - 47 and Woodfine then bowled Dunkley for 6 leaving Lee Moors to hit 2 fours and bring Lymington to within 14 runs of victory when Drayton bowled him in the 36th over leaving Sway narrow winners in a close contest.