GREENMOUNT won yesterday's Jubilee Trophy Finals for the second time.

The final was a disappointment with Egerton setting too low a target to put Greenmount, skippered by Gary Chadwick, under any real pressure.

In the first semi-final Egerton maintained their reputation as cup specialists when they repeated their Hamer Cup Final success over highly fancied Tonge.

Gary Garner (28), Jim Aspden (23) and Nigel Harris (21) provided Tonge's main contributions to a total of 126-9.

Keith Hornby and Nigel Barlow, who each took three cheap wickets from their five overs, did most damage for Egerton.

The Longworth Road side paced their reply well, with second team openers Graham Firth and Johnny Mills getting them away to a fine start.

Mills went for an impressive 24, Firth stayed longer for 31 and 23 runs apiece from Clegg and Sharples left Egerton needing nine runs from the final over bowled by Kevin Kirkpatrick.

Three twos and three singles saw them home on the last ball with six wickets in hand. The second semi-final contained three prime examples of role reversal. Heaton's opening bowler Rod Slater went in first and hit an excellent 48 out of his side's 122 for 8 while Greenmount batsman Gary Chadwick starred with the ball, taking 3 for 21.

As the Brandlesholme Road team - who previously won the competition in 1990 - moved to a fairly comfortable win, inter-league bowler Mark Stewart played the leading batting role, left unbeaten on 47 when the winning hit was made.

Stewart reverted to type in the final, however, taking 3 for 40 and two well-judged catches in the outfield as Egerton struggled to 94 for 6 on a low, slow wicket. Firth and Hornby top-scored with 24 each and while Colin Crouch bowled an impressively economical opening spell the second half of the innings saw the runs begin to flow.

Keith Webb played a fine innings to finish with 49 not out and earn the man-of-the-match award from adjudicator Arthur Crook - possibly only Mark Stewart being a serious rival for the award. In Greenmount's match-winning 95-3, Crouch took 2 for 12.

At the end of the day, presentations were made to Jack Price, who recently completed 50 years as an umpire, and who has officiated at most of the 21 Jubilee Finals days.

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