Carlisle and Keswick, billed as match of the day, served up a Cumbria League thriller at Edenside.
In a topsy-turvy game Carlisle edged it by two wickets with two overs to spare.
After being asked to bat first Keswick were struggling at 41-3 until a fourth wicket stand of 104 between professional Risith Upamal (77no) and Paul Hindmarch (56) got the visitors on track.
However the rest of the innings couldn’t produce a double figure knock and at the end of their 50 overs they were 202-9.
Ben Davidson was the leading bowler for Carlisle with 5-41 from eight overs.
Carlisle made a solid start with Tom Benn (54) and Marc Brown (34) putting-on 83 for the first wicket.
Then when pro Mike Slack was clean bowled by Dan Gaskell for just two Keswick thought they were in with a big shout.
At 132-5 they were looking favourites but Carlisle dug in with Nico Watt (32no) and Davidson (24) to edge closer to the target.
An important 16 from Josh Stirling nudged them nearer before Chris Blythe (7no) joined Watt to help steer Carlisle over the finishing line.
Scott McGown was the most successful Keswick bowler with 3-41.
Egremont were delighted to record a first win on their return to the Premier Division, and it was especially pleasing for them to come in the Copeland derby with Whitehaven.
After winning the toss and electing to bat Whitehaven were never comfortable and only skipper Stephen Holliday (19) and wicket-keeper Leo Sanczuk (17) got started at the top of the order.
They lost half of the side for 75 and only a patient 15 from number nine batsman Andrew Cameron got them over the century.
They were finally bowled-out for 110 in the 35th over.
Jack Thompson was the most successful Egremont bowler with 3-23.
Egremont suffered no serious alarms in a winning reply of 111-2 led by Jon-Paul Dixon (26) and Ollie Wilford (25no).
Overseas amateur Javon Grosvenor, who had taken 2-21 from his ten overs, was 14 not out, made off three scoring strokes – a six and two fours.
Workington collected their second win of the campaign at Haverigg where they were successful by seven wickets.
An opening stand of 91 between Callum Moffat (60) and Jake Daniel (58no) put Workington well on their way after restricting Haverigg to 146-7.
Jordan Postlethwaite top-scored with 81 not out for the hosts with Workington professional Lahiru Dilshan taking 3-20 from his ten overs.
It was a good knock by Postlethwaite as he faced 106 balls, hit 11 fours and two sixes. Haverigg pro Sachin Jayawardena took all three Workington wickets to fall at a cost of 42 runs.
League champions Furness stumbled in a rain restricted derby at Millom and slipped to a seven wicket defeat.
They had made 207-7 in their 50 overs with stand-in professional, wicket-keeper Fritz De Beer top-scoring with 68 not out.
Batting at number six he faced 64 deliveries, hitting four fours and three sixes.
Nathan Waterston chipped in with 44 while Elliott Maxfield made 34. Graham Dawson took 4-40 for Millom.
An interruption through rain caused a revised target for Millom of 83 from 20 and they just accomplished that from the final ball for the loss of four wickets.
Primosh Perera was unbeaten with 31 and Dawson made 25no in an unbeaten stand of 51.
Cockermouth got off the mark at the expense of Wigton as they won by 103 runs at Lowmoor Road.
One of the heroes for the Sandair side was 16-year-old Josh Brown.
A useful all-rounder it was his medium pace seam bowling which caused Wigton problems.
He got rid of top-scorer Mikey Hill (45) as third change and in five overs took 5-11. Sam Sharp weighed-in with 3-28.
Wigton were bowled-out for 94 in 29.3 overs.
Earlier Sharp (85no) and Matthew Sempill (31) had largely been responsible for Cockermouth reaching 197-8 in their 50 overs.
In the other game rain was responsible for a revised target as Cleator got off the mark with a six-wicket win at Dalton.
The home side were bowled-out for 176 in 46 overs with overseas amateur Amari Goodridge (35) and Dan Sharp (33) their top scorers.
New Cleator pro Kasun Madushanka took two wickets, as did Ian Clark and Doug Hughes.
Steve Wishart (36no) and Doug Hughes (22no) were going nicely and had taken Cleator to 106-4 off 30 overs when rain ended play. The west Cumbrians were eight runs ahead by the Duckworth Lewis Method.
