Buttershaw St Paul's stayed on course for a cleansweep of four trophies in the Bradford Central League when they beat Girlington by 48 runs in yesterday's Waddilove Trophy final at Low Moor.

Now, skipper Simon Lee will be keeping his players' efforts focused on winning the Second Division championship to return to the First Division at the first attempt.

Buttershaw have already won the first and second team cup competitions and both teams are top of their respective divisions.

The match was a personal triumph for opener Lindsey Bentle. He won the man of the match award after batting through the Buttershaw innings to make 84, including one six and eight fours.

It was mainly because of his efforts that they were able to set a challenging total of 219 for nine against First Division Girlington who have built their reputation on their ability to post high scores.

Buttershaw made a bad start, losing Steve Potter and Jonny Lister for only 12 runs.

Bentley took command to stabilise the innings, but Buttershaw struggled to score runs to such an extent that they were only 48 for three after 25 overs.

David Bowles lifted the tempo and he and Bentley added 85 in ten overs before Bowles was caught on the long-on boundary for 46 attempting another big hit.

Buttershaw maintained that run rate and added another 85 in their last ten overs to lay down the challenge to Girlington.

Girlington needed a good start but didn't make it as Buttershaw imposed the pressure with tight bowing and fine fielding.

Two stunning catches by Steve Potter to dismiss Mohammed Hanif and Manzar Naqvi typified the high standard.

At 79 for six with just 20 overs left Girlington were staring defeat in the face. Nawazish Khan and Khaled Mahmood lifted their hopes with at stand of 56 in nine overs for the seventh wicket, before Khaled was caught on the boundary edge by Mark Piotr, one of several pressure catches made by Buttershaw.

There was no way back after that and Girlington were all out for 171 as Bentley fittingly brought the match to a conclusion with another boundary edge catch to dismiss Nawazish.

Bentley, who played for two years at Girlington said: "We have been working on our fielding on practice nights both close in and big hit catches.

"The spirit in the side is tremendous. It seems everyone is playing for everyone else.

"When we lost those two early wickets fell I felt I had to steady the ship.

"It looked a bit dire at 12 for two but once David Bowles came in we picked up the pace from there we were fine. It was my most memorable innings.

"We thought our total might be enough, but we couldn't take anything for granted. Girlington bat from one to 11, but I thought our fielding was decisive."