Squash: England stars help Woodfield to first win of season
Woodfield's top-order super stars, England internationals Declan James and George Parker, helped secure their first win of the season in the Yorkshire Premier League against newly-promoted Cleethorpes.
James beat Malaysia's Sanjay Jeeva in four and Parker defeated Hong Kong's Matthew Lai in five, in what was a dramatic end to the evening.
Earlier, Cleethorpes had found success thanks to lower-order wins for Alec Tomlinson and Welshman Elliot Morris Devred, but Alex Cutts kickstarted a turnaround which James and Parker completed.
Defending champions Doncaster, who hosted Ferriby Hall, fielded the same line-up that saw them fall foul of Rule 36 last week away at Harrogate and incur an 11-point deduction.
The new rule, ratified at May's Yorkshire Squash AGM, states that teams cannot field more than three full-time pro players.
As Doncaster fielded the same five players again this week, they will once again receive a deduction.
Doncaster won 20-3 on Wednesday night and for the second week in a row, world no.69 Asia Harris took a male opponent to a fifth game and came out triumphant, this time wrapping up the decider 11-3 against Ferriby Hall's Dan Lawrence. David Turner, Lewis Doughty and Joel Arscott all won in brisk fashion thereafter whilst top string Simon Herbert took four games to overcome England international Ben Smith.
Hallamshire and Pontefract are the early front runners after both recorded crushing victories for the second successive week.