Champions Carlisle will still feel relieved the rain saved them from a potential disaster at home to Cockermouth last week.
Like all the other games across the Cumbria League’s Premier Division it ended in being abandoned so they lost no ground in the fight for the title.
But they were the one side among the top four who were grateful for the intervention of the weather as they struggled on 51-4 chasing 218 with all the top guns back in the pavilion.
So they remain two points behind leaders Furness and on Saturday travel to south Cumbria to tackle Lindal Moor with skipper Michael Slack looking for a response from last week’s below par show.
Furness, meanwhile, will feel confident of another win when they travel north to take on a struggling Cleator side at the J. D. Campbell Memorial Ground.
Cleator have fallen like a stone over recent weeks and now only have Haverigg below them, five points in arrears. They need to stop the rot – and quickly.
Workington stay in the Championship picture, nine points behind Furness, and are at Egremont where overseas amateur Davis Mills will be looking to continue the form he showed in an unbeaten century against Cleator last week.
Matthew Lowden, the Workington skipper, declared once Mills had reached three figures, with just 45.3 overs completed but even that couldn’t get the job done before the rain came.
Egremont had been 33-1 pursuing Haverigg’s 150 when their game ended early and they stayed eighth in the table 14 points behind their opponents who remain bottom.
Cockermouth are fourth, and who desperately needed to beat Carlisle last week, as they trail Furness by 18 points.
Part of the reason for that is how they failed to beat Wigton at Sandair two weeks ago. They have a quick opportunity to put that right when they play the return at Lowmoor Road.
That win over Cockermouth has been one of the highlights of the season to which Wigton started very slowly but have begun to look much more competitive.
Keswick have been in similar mode and they are up to sixth in the table and travel to bottom side Haverigg.
The other fixture sees Millom hosting Whitehaven and the last time they met there was a magnificent ton from the new Millom pro Madhav Kaushik.
He hit a sparkling 163 off only 136 deliveries and which included 20 fours and six sixes as Millom reached 308-8.
Clearly Whitehaven will feel pleased to see them back of him early this time as they look for revenge.
