OTs & Romsey left-arm spinner Nick Wood produced the Peter Cooper Volkswagen Southern League season's best bowling spell of 7-29 as leadership contenders Havant were skittled for 87 in a 170-run defeat.

Wood struck after OTs & Romsey had rattled up 257-9. Roger Miller (81) and Charlie Forward (67) put Havant to the sword with a 103-run partnership in 18 overs as OTs, with Peter Rodrigues (27) and Richard Taylor (22) also prominent, put the game out of reach.

Luke Sears, with earlier figures of 3-50, and Paul Gover took Havant to 31-0, but Wood's 12-over spell of 7-29, in which he extracted appreciative lift and turn, sent ten wickets tumbling for only 56 more runs.

Western Australia Under-19 left-hander Ben Lillis hit his maiden competitive cen-tury on English soil as Burridge won by nine wickets at Ridge Meadow, to plant Hambledon firmly on the bottom.

Lillis, coached by former Hampshire batsman Paul Terry at Melville, hit 19 boundaries in an unbeaten 119 as Burridge cruised past Hambledon's 193-8. Fremantle-based Lillis shared a Burridge record 146-run opening partnership with Hampshire Board starlet Matt Compton (54).

Archie Norris (28) featured in a confident Hambledon start, but apart from skipper Richard Kenway (69), only Matt Jones (29) made any impact for the basement boys.

Stand-in skipper Paul Draper was the guiding light behind Calmore Sports' fourth successive win - a four-wicket victory at off-colour Lymington, who were dismissed for 134.

Draper (69) held the innings together after Dan Goldstraw (4-41) ripped out Tim Lumsden, Greg Lewis and Tom Pegler in reducing Calmore to 59-4. Stuart Bailey and teenager James Rose (24 not out) provid-ed the support for Draper.

Lymington were on the back foot after losing Hampshire's Zac Morris to the first ball of the match to Chris Garrett, who produced a significant 4-34 return from 15 overs.

Dave Griffiths (23), Damian Shirazi (21) and Nick Makin (21) made starts for Lymington, but Mark Boston (3-25) and Draper (2-23) chipped away to dismiss the New Forest club for 134.

Colin Day's unbeaten 100 proved in vain as Liphook over-hauled Wellow's 237-4 by three wickets to notch their first win of the season.

Chris Powell (35), John Powell (29) and a breezy 37 off 27 balls by John Robinson took Wellow to a Southern League best total.

But former Havant all-rounder Richard Lewis celebrated his Liphook return in style with 75 and Richard Hindley hit 53 as Wellow slipping to their seventh defeat.

Australian Duncan Bond, who bats number 11 for Subiaco-Floreat, his Perth Grade club, starred as Waterlooville broke a sequence of five defeats to win by 51 runs at Andover.

Bond cracked an unbeaten 83 and, with help from Richard MacNee (40) and Steve George (34), took Ville to 218-5. Bond (3-41), Dave Oliver (2-12) and Stan Rudder (2-35) made inroads with the ball as Andover tumbled to 167 all out, Hampshire's Steve Lugsden hitting 34 not out.

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