THE two top teams in the Premier Division maintained their early-season surge with maximum points last week.

Ramsbottom Town A trounced Radcliffe Cricket Club 27-5 while Flixton Cricket Club A gave Hilton A a 27-8 beating.

Flixton Cricket Club B also came out on top, 22-8, against Nomads with nine points for both Keith Deaville and Tony Bates.

Wharton just managed to outplay Hilton B 19-15 with a nine from Barry Elliott.

In Division One, the two frontrunners had wins which were one point short of maximum scores.

Burning Desire beat Farnworth Social Circle A 26-5 with nines from Brett Haslam and Ben Armstrong, while new team Wigan TTC beat Ramsbottom Town D 26-14 with nines from Daniel Watkinson and Tony Whitney.

Third-placed Polonia Club A marched on with a 22-11 victory over Hilton C with nines from Lukasz Serdiuk and Dawid Kakol, and fourth-placed Coburg beat Wingates 24-13 with nines from Derek Watmough and Chris Naylor.

The bottom two had a good week as they both won.

Botton team Hilton D managed a 23-12 victory over Little Lever Cricket Club B while second-bottom Meadow Ben A had a good 20-9 win against Heaton Cricket Club A despite David Hall putting up strong resistance to get nine points.

In Division Two, top team St Paul’s Peel beat Hilton Top Spinners 21-13 with the usual nine from Lee Devenport. Just below them Meadow Ben B beat Hilton F 23-12 helped by nine from Mike Heaton.

Mid-table Heaton Cricket Club B had a 21-11 victory over Polonia Club B with nines form Martin Hulton and David Jones, and Hilton E beat Farnworth Social Circle B 19-14 thanks to nine from Matthew Kennedy.

Promoted Walkden Methodists have yet to break their duck, and last week went down 24-10 to Ladybridge B with nines from John Cole and John Birchall.

The derby between top team Meadow Hill C and their own mid-table D team in Division Three resulted in the D team just taking the honours 20-18, despite a resisting nine from Ian Wheeldon.

Second-placed Polonia Club C beat Irlam Steel Social Club 21-14, although David Yates rallied the resistance with a nine for Irlam.

Meadow Hill A, who were just below Polonia going into their game, suffered their first defeat of the season, 26-8 against last year’s relegated Farnworth Social Circle C with nines from Ben Wyatt and Christopher Lord.

Farnworth, now in joint third place, must have their eye on a swift return to Division Two, however, they have yet to play the two teams above them.

Albany had a good 24-12 victory over juniors Hilton I with nines from Stephen Lawless and David Barrow.

Meadow Hill B had their first win of the season, beating Hilton H 18-13 largely due to nine from new signing Scott Brown who had been on the sidelines in previous weeks awaiting a team to take him on.

Farnworth Social Circle D had a minor flood making the room unusable so their match against Ladybridge C will be played in due course.