For some reason, one possibly the Rugby World Cup Final, a number of sides just managed to field 11 players, among those hit were Stillington The Royal and Darlington Travellers Rest who met at Stillington. It was Travellers who took the early initiative and went ahead through Chris Marksby, the homeside fought back and Peter Kitching struck the equaliser two minutes before the break, midway through the second as they did last week, Travellers tired with Royal taking advantage to add a further three without reply, two went to Paul Cleary and one to Ian Jenkins.

After a dour first half Darlington The Mowden leading 1-0 at half-time got the upper hand on the turnround against Chilton Community College to finally run out comfortable 4-0 victors, Ritchie Dodsworth scored twice with one apiece for Adam Wilson and Steve Thompson.

The youngsters of Darlington GSOB got the better of Darlington Dalesman by five goals to one although the scoreline belies the actual play between these to sides in a very competitive game, Paul Prince opened the scoring for Dalesman with the Old Boys levelling by half-time, in the second it was Old Boys efforts that counted, they were led by a hat-trick from Sam Nattress with one each for Jimmy Morris and John Shields

Darlington Skerne Park put up a good fight before going down to Hurworth Emerson Arms also by five goals to one, Dave Walker, John Carver, Neil Bell and a pair for Kelvin Russell were on target for Emerson whilst Wayne Rochester scored Skernes consolation.

There were wins in the Darlington Charity Cup for Tindale WMC over Darlington The Albion by eight goals to four with three going to Billy Latcham and a brace for Paul Foster.

Shildon Elm Road WMC came back from Hartlepool after defeating Grays in a penalty shoot out, the sides were level 4-4 at full time and 5-5 after extra time, Thomas Loudon hit a hat-trick for Elm Road, with Ian McMahon saving a couple of spot kicks.