Playing Lawson Park Hotel, Home Decor got on top early as they had the Parkers at 6-34 thanks largely to Hayden O’Reilly’s 3-10 from five overs.

Tim Tritton bucked the trend with his top score of 34 but it was the only highlight in Lawson Park’s innings of 101.

The run chase was over fairly quickly with O’Reilly showing his skills with the bat in hand.

After tormenting Lawson Park with the ball, O’Reilly hit three sixes with the willow as he retired on 50.

His older brother Brian made 30 in Home Decor’s innings of 3-102.

Home Decor leads the competition by five points.

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Woolpack Hotel have narrowly escaped with a win over The Mudgee by two wickets.

Chasing 141 for victory, Woolpack were always in the hunt despite losing wickets.

Rodney Cooke steadied the ship at the top of the order with an unbeaten 51 but he was well supported by Craig McGrath who made 42.

The pair contributed heavily to Woolpack’s win.

But it nearly didn’t eventuate as Jeremiah Palombini took 4-23 from five overs to all but bowl The Mudgee to victory.

Woolpack were in control at 3-119 but Palombini’s spell saw the batting side slump to 8-139.

Fortunately for Woolpack, Cooke and Matt Osborne managed to hold their composure for the win.

Earlier, The Mudgee probably would have liked to have scored more runs than they did with several of their batsmen making starts.

Tom Fletcher top scored with 31, and Isaac Palombini (28) and Andrew Tompsett (26) added handy contributions.

However, Ray Forbes proved hard to deal with.

Forbes took 4-8 from five overs to restrict The Mudgee to 140 and play a huge part in helping Woolpack to win the match.

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Federal Hotel Hawks continued to add pressure on Mudgee Home Decor at the top of the division two competition with a three-wicket win over Paragon Hotel.

Paragon set 148 runs to win thanks to a half-century by Chris Killeen (50 retired) and handy knocks from Troy Grimshaw (26) and Adam O’Connell (22).

All three helped Paragon to 2-112 with seven overs to go before Tim Lincoln and Blake Gorrie turned the match in the Hawks’ favour.

Lincoln took 3-13 from two overs and Gorrie claimed 2-11 from five overs as Paragon finished on 8-147 at the end of their 40 overs.

Gorrie didn’t last long when Federal Hotel began their innings, out for two when Chris Killeen struck in the fourth over.

Mark Lyndon and Tim Ward got Hawks’ back in the game with a steady partnership before the former was dismissed for 27.

Ward soon followed for 18, and Darryl Reid (14) and Paul Cottam (19) added to the score.

Paragon were on top as they had the Hawks at 7-113 but an unbeaten 37-run stand between Sam Gorrie and Ben Gardiner got Federal Hotel over the line.

Sam Gorrie finished not out 16 and Gardiner not out on 19 as Federal reached 7-150 to win by three wickets. Lachlan Edwards (2-29 from five overs) and David Edwards (2-4 from three) for Paragon.