GREAT Horton Park Chapel have joined Cullingworth at the top of Division Two in the Foster's Halifax League after the pair had contrasting fortunes.

Chapel won by four wickets at Denholme Clough, while Cullingworth lost by nine runs at home to Clayton.

Clough just managed to bank maximum batting points, losing their last wicket on 180. But Chapel recovered from a perilous 61-5 to win comfortably thanks to Amaar Syed (65no) and Matthew Jordan (47).

John Jonas made 63 and No 10 Matthew Roe hit 35 as Clayton totalled 242 at Cullingworth. The hosts fell just short against visiting pair Paul Gelder (5-55) and Andrew Windle (4-57).

Outlane are level on points with Clayton, just two behind the leading duo, after an impressive display from their top-order batsmen at home to Shelf.

Lee Mellor (76), Alex Blagborough (51), Chris Brook (54) and Andrew Holding (63) were all able to raise their bats to their appreciative team-mates as Outlane piled up 305-9.

Babar Malik's 74 kept Outlane waiting but Shelf were finally all out for 198.

Defending champions Jer Lane are back on track after a four-wicket home win over top-three Division One rivals Mytholmroyd.

Jer skipper Mick Hustler hit the winning boundary through mid-wicket with seven deliveries to spare as Mytholmroyd were left to rue some slipshod fielding, having made a game of it after an unpromising start.

The visitors were 40-4 and 96-7 but managed to post 204 thanks to Adie Gawthorpe's 70 and Spencer Harris's unbeaten 50, Nasir Chowdrey finishing with 5-56.

Lane looked to be cruising to victory as openers Chris Shannon and Andrew Pinfield took them into the 90s – but Gawthorpe made the breakthrough by dismissing Pinfield.

Jer slipped to 114-3 – and it could have been worse as three easy chances went down in the field.

Shannon benefited and the left-hander was closing in on a century when he was trapped leg before.

Lane were left needing 16 off three overs but Hustler and Paul Chapman were up to the task as their side bounced back from a first defeat of the season at the hands of Triangle the previous week.

Hustler's men lead by three points from Booth, who cruised to an eight-wicket win at Blackley thanks to Rob Laycock's 134.

Sowerby Bridge's Sam Mellor is in the league side for his bowling but showed his prowess with the bat as his side beat visitors Thornton by 87 runs.

Mellor made 72 not out to add to 62s from Tim Helliwell and Nick Whitehill as Bridge totalled 284-4 at Walton Street.

Spinner Jake Dixon's 6-45 dismissed Thornton for 189, No 4 Mick Shanks being left high and dry on 64 not out.

SBCI were grateful to Simon Wood, Robin Hanson and Jamie Sykes for their 74-run home win over Queensbury.

Wood made 73 out of their 144, the last six wickets falling for the addition of only three runs.

However, opening bowlers Hanson (6-27) and Sykes (4-35) ran through Queensbury's suspect batting line-up for 71, Bradley Osbourne scoring 41.

Revenge was quick and sweet for the winners in Division One as they had all lost to the same opponents seven days earlier.

Bridgeholme's stay at the summit was brief when Northowram Hedge Top won by five wickets at Eastwood.

The home side posted 251-8, thanks mainly to a seventh-wicket stand of 113 between Chris Kibble (70) and Ollie Challis (61).

Bridgeholme looked poised to follow up the previous week's four-wicket success when they reduced the Rams to 21-3 and 132-5.

However, Sam Gardner followed up his four wickets with an unbeaten 84 and he and Adam Stocks (81no) figured in a superb stand to carry the visitors to victory with a couple of overs to spare.

Sowerby St Peters climbed back to the top when spinner Martin Schofield (6-25) and Matty Hoyle (4-40) bowled out hosts Oxenhope for 101.

Sowerby had earlier posted 188, Ryan Brook making 69 at the top of the order but seven of his team-mates perishing at the hands of Liam Dyson.

Oxenhope had won at Sowerby by 13 runs the previous week.

Stones batsman Kevin O'Rourke scored well for the second week running against Low Moor.

He top-scored with 87 in the Ripponden side's 188-8 but Moor replied impressively, Mark Stokes' 62 not out giving the home side a six-wicket win to avenge a defeat by the same margin.