Bradshaw beat Egerton by 5 wickets. Batting first Egerton were bowled out for 139(Rick Brandon 6-11). Bradshaw scored 140-5 thanks to Neil Hart 38 and Adam Green 32(Chris Tie 3-39).

Tonge beat Walkden by 7 wickets. Batting first Walkden scored 165 all out (Nigel Thomas 32 Jason trench 32 Adam Rodzoch 4-44 Steve Holt 4-37). Alan Bradbury 72* and Adam Rodzoch 36*made sure Tonge reached their target.

Horwich beat Greenmount by 82 runs. Batting first Horwich scored 211-5(Chris Bannister 81 Andy Hancock 56 (James Sharples 3-44). Greenmount were bowled out for 129 thanks to Martin Gibbons 4-30 and T Koz 4-38(Neil Kay 50).

Heaton beat Little Lever by 3 wickets. Lever were bowled out for 175(Gary Pilling 53 Paul Mort 4-41 Dave Walsh 4-45). Heaton reached their target thanks to 100* from Floyd Patterson and 35 from Simon West.

In the Birtwistle Cup semi-final, Steve Butcher scored 210* as Heaton scored 397-1 against Greenmount.

He batted the full 50 overs and his 210 included 27 fours and 8 sixes, he was well supported by Gareth Carson 91 as they put on 256 for the first wicket and Andy Patterson 75*.

Greenmount in reply scored 297-7 with Richard Long scoring 116, Paul Beesley 61 and Tony Hayes 33(Paul Mort 4-75). Heaton won by 100 runs.

Tonge beat Horwich by 77 runs. Batting first Tonge scored 249-7 (Rob Rawlinson 87 Dave Barlow 46* and Alan Bradbury 36). In reply Horwich were bowled out for 172(Martin Gibbons 61* Nick Biggar 3-24).