Port Stephens Pythons won a thriller against Paterson with the one-run margin befitting the game’s top-two billing.
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The Pythons posted 8/195 as Jarrod Moxey top scored with 59.
Paterson fell just short of maintaining their unbeaten record finishing on 9/194 from their 40 overs.
The Paterson bowlers shared the load with Dean Bridges, Jason Watson and Stephen Priestley all finishing with two wickets.
Opener Daniel Agland top scored with 54 and Brad Merchant (30) and Kurt Humphreys (22) were next best in an even performance for Paterson.
Allan Baldwin was the chief destroyer for the Pythons taking 3-34. The other main wicket take was Adam Butler with 2-27.
A Jackson Bell century helped Dungog to their first A-grade win of the season, beating Raworth in a thriller.
Raworth were restricted to 9/209 thanks to Brady Rumbel (4-12) and Damian Keating (3-26)
Keating made an early break when he had Ryan Threlfo caught by Terry Drinkwater off the fourth ball he faced.
Tim Baker (51) and Mitchell Thompson (46) helped Raworth post a competitive total after Rumbel ripped through the middle order.
Thompson backed up with the ball and dismissed opener Rumbel on his way to taking 4-38.
Keating came in at No.3 and made 45 to be the main support for Bell along with Martin Osmond’s 23.
Bell finally fell for 104, but there were a few jitters until Luke Rits got the winning runs.
Kurri Kurri had a huge win against the struggling Windsor Castle Stallions posting 7/304 and then bundling the Stallions out for 128 in the 26th over.
The Stallions might have thought their fortunes had changed when Kookaburras opener Danial Foster was dismissed for a duck with the score at two.
But opener Peter Brennan and No.3 Michael Gates put paid to that with a 128 run partnership before Gates was out for 48.
Brennan top scored with 84, including 10 fours and six sixes, in trying conditions. Nathan Stapleford followed Gates and maintained the pressure with his 54 including eight fours and a six.
Jaimie White chimed in with 39 and Jamie Carter (20), Gavin Kronholm (19) and Adam Foster (19) kept the runs flowing.
Stallions openers Joshua McInnes (22) and Leigh Williams (30) gave Windsor Castle a solid start with an opening stand of 55.
But when McInnes was bowled by Bradley Hill, Williams soon followed and the wickets began to tumble leaving No.3 Luke Kijko stranded on 21.
Nathan Stapleford took 3-35 and Kronholm and Cale McKenzie got two wickets each.
