PRESTWICH moved eight points clear at the top of the Lancashire County League table with wins over Roe Green and Thornham.

Professional Craig Duxbury smashed a superb 113 as Prestwich rattled up 208-6, before bowling Green out for 152 on Saturday.

Chris Humphreys took taking 7-37 yesterday as Thornham crashed to 83 all out, Prestwich scoring 84-4 in reply.

Denton West's woes worsened with defeats against Woodbank and Irlam, West losing out by 113 runs and five wickets %respectively.

Damian Eyre took 5-64 against Thornham on Saturday as Glossop marched to a four-wicket win, and followed that up with 7-78 against Woodhouses in an eight-wicket victory.

Results: Denton St Lawrence 97 Dukinfield 98-3, Flowery Field 125 Denton 128-3, Longsight 257-4 (Safiq 138no) Cheetham Hill 138, Prestwich 208-6 (Duxbury 113, Orrell 41) Roe Green 152 (Green 48, Humphreys 4-83), Thornham 149 (Sutcliffe 54, Eyre 5-64) Glossop 152-6, Woodbank 250-3 (Ridehaugh 94, M Stringer 67no) Denton West 137, Irlam 92 (Sloane 7-29) Woodhouses 93-1.

Sunday: Dukinfield 5-6 Cheetham Hill 193, Denton 254-8 (Leech 57) Denton St Lawrence 130 (Bocarro 57), Denton West 156 Irlam 157-5 (Ahmed 50), Woodbank 5-3 Flowery Field 210-4, Woodhouses 2-9 (Britton 66, Eyre 7-78) Glossop 3-2 (Stopford 72, Stocks 73), Longsight 80 (Green 6-33) Roe Green 81-3, Thornham 83 (Humphreys 7-37) Prestwich 84-4.

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