Durham Alliance

O a day when the weather took it's toll on a number of the scheduled matches, Washington Westwood hit top spot for the first time this season when they defeated a depleted Herrington CW 3-0 at the Welfare ground. Herrington manager Kevin Pounder was forced to play because of injuries and work commitments. The home side held firm in the first period and went in at 0-0 at half time. Pounder replaced himself at the start of the second half and Herrington proceeded to lose their shape as a much stronger Westwood side showed their potential. The pressure applied by Westwood paid off with goals from Peter Hollis and two by Jason Fox.

Birtley Town Reserves entertained Springwell SC and went down 2-1. Birtley dominated the first period and were full value for a 1-0 interval lead courtesy of lan Rowland. Conditions were good considering the very poor weather during the week and Springwell came out in the second period and turned the match around. Goals from Paul Hardy and a late penalty from Warren Brown secured the points for the visitors.

The first round of the Mark Blake Memorial Trophy got under way and three ties were completed. Sunderland Flying Boat progressed into round two with a 6-1 home win over Chesters. Boat were comfortably ahead 2-0 at the interval with goals from Keith Peverley and a 25 yarder by lan Usher. Chris Middleton made it 3-1 early in the second half and lan Usher hit another long range effort. Further goals from Chris Clark and one by Michael Bell, returning from long-term injury, made it a comfortable passage into round two.

Whitehill joined Flying Boat in round two with an 8-3 trouncing of Ebchester. Scorers for the Hill were Peter Norton(4), Gary Johnson(2), Paul Rutherford and Simon Thubron. Ebchester replied with strikes from Michael Hindmarch, Chris Parkin and Philip Mullon.

In a tight match, Boys Welfare defeated Belford House with the only goal of the game from new signing Dave Smith. The tie was close all the way and eventually went into extra time. The golden goal which decided the tie was scored five minutes into extra tune of a very entertaining match.

P W D L F S Pts

Westwood 12 9 3 0 60 8 30

Seaham Duke 13 9 3 1 40 14 30

Boys Welfare 12 8 2 2 40 26 26

Springwell Vill 11 7 1 3 26 12 22

Durham Vic Bridge 11 5 2 4 41 26 17

Whitehill 11 4 4 3 33 33 16

Herrington 10 5 1 4 24 29 16

Belford House 9 4 2 3 20 17 14

Seaham Mallard 10 3 2 5 22 33 11

S'land Flying Boat 11 2 3 6 20 25 9

Chesters 11 2 0 9 15 52 6

Birtley Tn Res 12 0 2 10 13 49 2

Ebchester 9 0 1 8 9 39 1

Results: Birtley Town Res 1, Springwell Village 2; Herrington CW 0, Washington Westwood 3.

Mark Blake Memorial Trophy: Boys Welfare 1, Belford House 0; Flying Boat 6, Chesters 1; Whitehill 8, Ebchester 3.

Hathaway Auckland and District League

O again, Saturday's programme was hit by waterlogged grounds, after last week's heavy rain. And all games were in the second round of the Auckland Charity Cup.

After losing to Shildon Railway twice in the league, Brandon Station gained their revenge with a 3-2 win. They opened the scoring with a goal from Paul Eilles with Will Swinburne equalising for Shildon Railway before half-time.

Paul Gill made the score 2-1 in Brandon's favour early in the second half, only for Phil Appleby to equalise and just when it seemed as if the game was going into extra time, John J. Bell scored Bradon Station's winner.

In another all-league affair, Black and Decker beat Brewer and Firkin 4-1. They led 2-0 at half-time, with goals from Paul Franey and Stephen Baker, adding further goals in the second half from Michael Quinn and Mark Fleming.

Roddymoor were too strong for DGSOB and ran out 8-0 winners, with David Snow scoring five times and Darren Lamb 2 (both penalties). Greg Burke was their other scorer. Cockfield beat Stanhope Town 4-1. Cockfield led 3-0 at half-time, with goals from Gareth Jackson, Michael Lee and David Wilkinson. Stuart Proud scored their second-half goals.

Darlington RA were too strong for Howden Australian and ran out 6-0 winners with goals from Paul Adamson 3, Gary Lowes, Stephen Walker and an own goal.

North Eastern Christian Fellowship League

Westgate Road Baptist Church were one of the few sides to beat the weather, gaining a 2-1 home Division Two win over Lanchester Chapel who missed a first-half penalty.

Steve Valentine gave Westgate the lead with Karl Hepplwhite squaring the match. Deep into the game, Steve Taylor stepped up to a hit a 30-yard free kick to give Westgate their win and climb to a mid-table placing.

Middlesbrough Baptists keeper Adrian Paylor kept his side in the match after Andrew Robinson put them into a 1-0 lead over Emmanuel Yarm.

All other league games failed to start while Stakeford went down 2-1 at home to Gosforth British Airways in the second round of the Northumberland Minor Cup.

Division One

P W D L F A Pts

Sunderland 5 4 1 0 18 4 13

Jesmond 6 4 1 1 13 5 13

Behshan 6 2 3 1 10 8 9

Consett 5 3 0 2 12 12 9

Airport N'castle 6 2 2 2 8 14 8

Ryton Churches 6 1 3 2 10 12 6

Heaton Hearts 6 2 0 4 9 16 6

Stranton Saints 5 1 2 2 11 10 5

Athenians 5 1 2 2 8 8 5

Whitley Bay 6 0 2 4 4 18 2

Division Two

St Peter's Low Fell 6 5 0 1 19 12 15

Wearside A 6 4 1 1 26 11 13

Monkwearmouth 5 2 3 0 15 10 9

Heworth 5 2 2 1 14 11 8

Jesmond B 4 2 1 1 13 8 7

Stakford 6 2 1 3 15 15 7

Middlesbrough 6 2 1 3 7 12 7

Lanchester 6 1 3 2 13 14 6

Westgate Road 5 2 0 3 8 13 6

Bethany 6 1 3 2 10 16 6

Wearside 6 1 1 4 11 19 4

Yarm Emmanuel 5 0 2 3 9 19 2

Brian Adams Transport

Emergency Services League

Half of the fixtures were again wiped out by the rain, but Stockton and Frankland were the prime beneficiaries, both playing under-strength sides and taking the points.

Stockton beat previously unbeaten Cleveland Fire 3-0, who only fielded ten men. Liam Denny scored two of the goals with veteran Eric Young coming on as a substitute to get the other. Noel Young and Jason Parnell were Man of the Match for their respective teams.

Frankland capitalised on Darlington having a weakened team and beat them 5-0, with Ian Gibson, Scott Coates and Paul Davis getting a goal each and Gavin Wigham scored twice.

In the only Second Division game to be played, Sedgefield's long journey to Langbaurgh was fruitful as they came away with a 5-3 win.

Andy Robinson, Andy Gray and Chris Keightley got Langbaurgh's goals. For Sedgefield, Billy Crampsie and Shaun Goad scored two goals each and Carl Moss got the other.

P W L D F A Pts

Stockton 4 2 1 1 12 8 7

Cleveland Fire 3 2 0 1 8 5 6

Frankland 4 2 0 2 13 11 6

Washington 2 1 1 0 7 3 4

Derwentside 3 1 1 1 6 7 4

Darlington 4 1 1 2 6 11 4

Newcastle 2 1 0 1 5 6 3

Durham CLS 2 0 0 2 3 9 0

Saints 3 2 1 0 7 2 7

Easington 2 0 0 2 10 2 6

Durham Fire 2 0 0 2 9 3 6

Sedgefield 3 1 1 1 8 7 4

Langbaurgh 3 0 0 3 5 10 0

Durham HQ 3 0 0 3 3 14 0

Darlington and District Church and Friendly League

The league programme was hit by the rain, leaving the league with only three matches.

Darlington Wesley's put up a dour struggle before going down 8-0 to Stillington The Royal. They held the home side to two first-half goals but an early second half own goal swung the game further into Royal's favour.

Simon Hares hit a hat-trick with one each for Mike Swales and Charlie Sedgwick with young lan Jenkins coming on as a substitute and scoring twice in the space of six minutes.

Newton Aycliffe Turbinia carried on from where they left off a fortnight ago with a 10-2 win at Chilton against Wheatsheaf Wanderers, Lee Robinson led the scoring with four followed by three from Wayne Pratt, one apiece went to Mark Silvester and Paul Blackett.

Andy Ryder got his just reward for an outstanding game with the remaining goal. Paul Jones was on target with both Wheatsheaf goals.

Barnard Castle Deepdale had keeper Lee Mason to thank for keeping them up with the front runners as they overcame Darlington Aidans 4-1 in a great game.

Trenton Hewitt (2), Darren Gill and Stephen Bennett scored for Deepdale with Chris Barr on hand for Aidans.

P W D L Pts

Otter and Fish 10 7 2 1 23

Model T 8 7 1 0 22

Busters 7 6 1 0 19

Newton Aycliffe Hydro 11 5 3 3 18

Stillington Royal 7 5 2 0 17

Aidans Skerne Park 8 5 1 2 16

Deepdale 7 4 3 0 15

Sedgefield Ath 8 4 1 3 13

Aycliffe Saints 10 3 2 5 11

Turbinia 7 3 1 3 10

D'ton GSOB 11 3 1 7 10

D'ton RA Youth 10 3 1 6 10

AFC Tap and Spile 10 3 0 7 9

Wheatsheaf Wand 8 2 1 5 7

Shildon Three Tuns 10 2 1 7 7

D'ton SCA 10 1 3 6 6

D'ton Wesleys 10 0 2 8 2