Darlington Building Society NYSD Premier League Division One: The championship and promotion to the Premier Division is still up for grabs with four sides in contention.

Wolviston enjoy a narrow four-points lead over Great Ayton with both sides having two matches to play but Billingham Synthonia and Seaton Carew cannot be ruled out.

Wolviston had to settle for a draw at Barnard Castle where they claimed 13 points. Geoff Peacock(66), Mark Mullen (30) and Jones, with an unbeaten 35 led Wolviston to 196-7 but they rarely looked like bowling out the home side who finished with 108-7 on top including an unbeaten 53 by Michael Stanwix, who went in at number three.

Great Ayton made no mistake in their home game with Marske, overtaking the target of 161 with nine wickets remaining. Glen Mudd struck two sixes and 16 boundaries in an unbeaten 104 and John Grainge carried his bat for 35 as the pair hurried Ayton to victory in just 26 overs.

Chris Gibbon had nine boundaries out of 47 when Marske made the respectable total of 160 in 46 overs. Top wicket-taker for Great Ayton was Anthony Doyle whose 13 overs yielded 3-48.

Billingham Synthonia moved into third, defeating Darlington by six wickets. Keith Martin claimed six for 51 and Martin Cull picked up three wickets conceding just one run as Darlington were restricted to 109 which included 38 by Danny Morgans.

Denis Wing set the Synners on their way with an opening contribution of 32 and victory was achieved for the loss of just four wickets.

Seaton Carew's game at Stokesley was abandoned at an interesting stage. The home side were 67-2 needing only 125 after Chris Dowson, with six wickets for 53 runs and Ian West (4-31) had reduced Seaton to just 124. Evans, with 48, top-performed with the bat for the visitors.

Normanby Hall had plenty of wickets and overs to spare at Guisborough. Geoff Robinson bowled no fewer than 22 overs, five of them maidens taking four 43 and Dave Brown returned 4-42 from his equally impressive spell of 15.1 overs.

The Guisborough batsmen struggled for runs and Dave Richardson's 30 was the top contribution in a total of 111 which took 43.1 overs to achieve.

In contrast, Normanby Hall lost just two wickets and needed only 28.3 overs before celebrating victory. Mark Lane ended unbeaten on 40 with eight fours and Paul Gettings also ended undefeated on 34.

Middlesbrough's game with Marton at Acklam Park was called off when they were 24-1 replying to the visitors' total of 208-7. Chris Lane (54), Campbell with 76 and Gaynon (36) all hit form in the Marton innings.

The same fate was suffered in the game between Redcar and Bedale.

The home side was 74-3 needing 234 after Carruthers (80), Wilkin (36) and Murphy (31) had propelled Bedale to 233-8.