SWINTON Moorside closed the gap on Edgworth at the top of the Bolton Association to 11 points after recording a 100-run victory against their title rivals.

The Moorside Park side are now only one win away from the summit of the table which has been occupied by the league-leaders for majority of the campaign.

Dave Flatley (37) and James Wade (71) held a 107-run opening stand as Swinton opened the scoring.

Skipper Jonathan Herreran added 42 and Brad Palmer chipped in with 33 at the tail end to post an impressive 234-8. Gareth Williams was the only bowler of note taking 6-73.

Josh Fallows (42) and Brett Ernst (39) scored high in reply but Edgworth could not deal with the superb bowling of Palmer (6-38) and Jack Wood (3-42) as they were all out for 134, and they now know that one more defeat in the remaining three games could lose them the title.

Bury extended their league unbeaten run to 13 games with victory at home to Flixton.

Luke Perry opened with 32 for the Cross Cup champions but with little support his side were bowled out for 93 – 18-year-old Jordan Belston bowled 4-19 and Ashen Silva took 3-16.

Simon Belston scored 41 not out in reply and Silva chipped in with 17 not out as Bury secured a comfortable nine-wicket win to remain in third and keep the pressure on the top two.

Lostock returned to winning ways following back-to-back losses with a win away at Atherton.

Nick Jeffs (39), Conner Hicklin (32*) and Paul Busby (31) all scored high as Lostock posted 180-6 – of which four wickets fell to Harry McManus for 64.

Atherton skipper Paul Walsh led by example hitting 53 in reply, but besides Ian Nuttall (22) his teammates never got going and they were dismissed for 143.

If a game could summarise a team's season Walshaw's clash with Blackrod did just that.

Having got off to a brilliant start and bowled the hosts out for 68, mainly thanks to Nick Murphy (6-31) and Gavin Nichol (3-33), the match looked in the bag for a side that were struggling to find form of late.

But just like their second half of the campaign, Walshaw crashed and were buried for 43. Thushendra de Zoysa bowled 6-16 and Matthew Stears took 3-9 as the bowlers ran riot taking six ducks between them.

Iain Critchley starred for Adlington as they lead the second group after seeing off Worsley.

The Huyton Road side got off to a poor start with a total of 22-3 but got back on track thanks to the batting of Critchley (60) and Jack Shovelton (32) to post 175-9.

David Purcell (5-42) took majority of the wickets before turning his hand to the bat and top-scoring with 23 as his side were dismissed for 136.

Critchley (4-25), Shovelton (2-32), Majid Majeed (2-42) and Saj Khan (2-31) formed the bowling attack that secured the win and moved Adlington up to seventh.