Albion 5 v 0 Newton Aycliffe: Albion maintained their excellent recent form and goals from Gary Mitchell (2), Adrian Weston, Rodney Brown and John Banks saw them home.

DSRM SC Reserves 0 v 3 Post Boy

The bottom club were never overawed by the current champions but goals from Michael Armstrong, Darren Hewitson and sub Michael Seal were sufficient to secure the points for post Boy. Andrew Christian was Post Boy's man of the match.

Killinghall Arms 4 v 2 Shuttle & Loom

Killie found themselves on the back foot from the off against a shuttle side fresh from a three-week break and trailed 1-0 at the interval. However, Killie equalised immediately after the restart and then took the lead.

Shuttle bounded back to level with a spectacular if somewhat fortuitous strike. It was the Killies turn to get on top and they added two further goals to gain a fortunate win against a shuttle side who at least deserved a point. Man of the match Gary Alford (2), Neil Matthias and Danny Fleary were Killies scorers.

League Challenge Cup

Grey Horse 4 v 2 East End WMC

Boosted by several RA Reserve players, Jekyl and Hyde team Grey Horse surprised all the pundits with this victory. the teams were level at half time, Paul Horsley and Aaron Radstock having scored for the clubmen.

Two second half goal secured Post Boy a semi-final tie at home to Newton Aycliffe. Peter Gormley, Steven Appleby, Michael Weston and Steven Harkins were Grey Horse's scorers.

Invitation Trophy first Round

Hole In The Wall 2 v 0 Archdeacon

An early goal from David Wilson and one on the stroke of half time from Alan Gowling who finished off a good left wing move gave Hole in the Wall a rare cup win.

Hall failed to capitalise on their lead in the second half and were indebted to several good saved from keeper Paul De St Croix and a headed goal line clearance by Pail Tills to ensure victory as Archdeacon battled to get on terms.

P W D L F A Pts

Killinghall Arms 17 13 1 3 83 26 40

Post Boy 14 11 0 3 60 20 33

Albion 13 9 2 2 67 18 29

*East End WMC 14 9 0 5 44 27 24

Archdeacon 16 7 1 8 41 37 22

Newton Aycliffe 14 7 1 6 40 46 22

Hole In The Wall 16 5 2 9 25 40 17

Grey Horse 15 5 2 8 32 61 17

Shuttle and Loom 14 5 0 9 41 41 15

DGSOB 15 4 1 10 39 70 13

DSRM SC Res 16 2 0 14 24 110 6

Darlington Church and Friendly League

The first half between Newton Aycliffe Navy Club and Chilton Wheatsheaf Wanderers was evenly contested with Navy Club going in at the interval 2-1 in front, with the strong wind in their favour on the turnround Navy Club used it more productively to their advantage to add a further four goals without reply, Mark Silvester led the scoring with three, Wayne Pratt a pair and Gavin Bage hit the other, Gary Shaw netted for Wheatsheaf.

Two fixtures with the four clubs vying for League honours, Shildon Elm Road WMC entertained Stillington The Royal, it was a shame we had a loser in what was a very good game, but as things often turn out this does not always happen, Royal took an interval lead through Simon Hares, Carl Dawson levelled the score early in the second, it took an individual effort from Paul Weir to seal the points for The Royal, both keepers had outstanding games.

In the other fixture Darlington RA Youth visited Darlington The Mowden, Craig Adamson and Darren Kokes shot Youth into the lead but with half-time approaching Gary Varty pulled one back from a corner kick, the scoreline stayed thus until seven minutes from time when Adamson latched onto a ball in the centre circle to break away and slot it passed the keeper and make the points safe for RA Youth.

Hurworth Otter & Fish had things their own way against Darlington Skerne Park who although outplayed never stopped trying, credit goes to their keeper for keeping the score down to ten, it was James Edwards who led the scoring with four, a couple went to Chris Bellwood with one apiece for Jonathan Edwards, Graham Wedge and Jonathan Bell, Andy West rounded off the scoring from the penalty spot.

Aycliffe Saints came away from their visit to Darlington G.S.O.B. with a six-three victory to keep them on course with the top of the table clubs, Jonathan Craig and Ben Hall both hit a brace with Micheal and Richard Cave scoring the other two.

South Cleveland Garages Teesside League

Division One

Mackinlay Park 3 v 0 Stokesley SC

A new-look Redcar side took the lead after 22 minutes when Charlie Eeles opened his account for his team. Ray Teasdale gave Park a 2-0 half-time lead and in the second half the hosts increased their lead to 3-0 when Eeles made the game safe with ten minutes remaining.

Division Two

Darlington SRM 2 v 2 Whinney Banks

After an evenly contested first ten minutes, the home side took the lead through Paul Thorns. Whinney Banks drew level when John Blamires scored but two minutes into the second half Gavin Harris gave the Darlington side the lead for the second time.

Whinney Banks fought back and were rewarded with five minutes remaining when Anthony High made it 2-2.

Guisb Town Res 0 v 1 Darlington CB

in a dull game of very few chances, Lee Hammond scored the only goal of three minutes before the break, when he broke clear of the Town defence before running on to slot the ball past John Kirkwood.

Division One

P W D L F A Pts GD

Bedale Ath 21 14 3 4 72 34 45 +38

Grangetown BC 19 13 3 3 63 25 42 +38

Thornaby FC 20 13 2 5 48 26 41 +22

Nunthorpe Ath 19 12 3 4 59 20 39 +39

Thornaby YC 18 9 6 3 37 22 33 +15

BEADS FC 21 9 4 8 46 48 31 -2

Acklam SW 17 9 2 6 38 25 29 +13

Fishburn Park 19 8 3 8 31 28 27 +3

Richmond Town 18 8 1 9 25 31 25 -6

Carlin How 19 6 5 8 43 46 23 -3

Whitby Town R 19 5 5 9 36 59 20 -23

Wolviston Res 15 3 4 8 23 38 13 -15

New Marske 19 3 3 13 17 60 12 -43

Mackinlay Park 20 4 0 19 18 68 12 -47

Stokesley SC 20 2 4 14 26 55 10 -29

Division Two

P W D L F A Pts GD

SMG Redstripe 18 12 5 1 39 15 41 +24

Dormans FC 17 11 0 6 45 35 33 +10

Teesside Arriva 13 8 1 4 45 18 25 +27

Whinney Bank 15 6 4 5 42 30 22 +12

Billingham Wnd 17 6 3 8 34 34 21 -

Guisb Town Re 16 6 1 9 16 39 19 -23

Darlington CB 12 5 3 4 20 24 18 -4

Teesside Ath 16 5 1 9 35 32 16 +3

Teesside Link 17 5 1 11 38 42 16 -5

Darlington SRM 12 4 4 4 17 27 16 -10

Darlington RA 16 3 3 10 22 57 12 -3