Woodhouse Grange end 2026 on a high against Sheriff Hutton Bridge

In a game of fluctuating fortunes Woodhouse's all-round team performance prevailed.

Wobbling at 64-4 and 107-6; skipper Lee Goddard (35), promoted Harry Jackson (39) and lower order men Tom Neal (51) and Jack Dyson (43) turned it round then lifted Grange to a 237 total.

Sheriff Hutton's start of 26-4 was even dodgier.

A 92-run fifth wicket partnership put them back in it, but teenage Grange seamer, Ryan Thompson, blew the middle order away, three victims in seven balls for 5-22 and a second successive five-wicket haul. There was no way back for SHB, all out for 143 in the 34th over.

Woodhouse's sixth win in a row lifted them to third in the final YPLN table.

Already Prem 2 champions, though not allowed promotion as a second team, Woodhouse 2nds completed their campaign by slumping to a 128-run defeat at Acomb.

Woodhouse 3rds won well at home to Dringhouses, leapfrogging into runners-up spot in Div 1 Galtres; bowling out Dringhouses for 115, Matisse Richards 4-29, and winning by five wickets.

The season's curtain came down at Sandhill Lane on Sunday with the traditional Men of Derwent and Pocklington Pixies finale for the Alasdair Swann Trophy.

The Pixies relied on 100 by player-manager Charlie Lambert for their 191-6; but the Men of Derwent, Woodhouse's invitation XI, won by two wickets and one over to spare thanks to 61 from Ben Burdett.

Also on Sunday, Grange 5ths completed an unbeaten championship season with another big win; Alex Collins junior hitting a century for a second week running, supported by Freddie Stothard's 66no, to pile up 259-6 then dismiss Heworth for 175.

Stamford Bridge ensured Premier League survival with a 58-run home success over Hull Zingari; Bridge posting 213-8 then bowling Zingari out for 155 through Chris Wood, 84no and 3-43, and Muhammed Bilal, 65 and 5-26.

Londesborough Park's strong season's finish took them into fourth in the Prem 2 table.

From 70-5, Park posted 244, Greg Drewery 63, Olly Rook 77; then shared the wickets to dismiss Fairburn for 166.

RUGBY UNION: Well beaten by higher league Driffield under lights in midweek, Pocklington RUFC complete their pre-season hit outs by entertaining Middlesbrough this Saturday, kick-off 3pm at Percy Road.