WHILE the area’s Birmingham League sides suffered disappointing weekends, it was left to the teams in the Worcestershire League to shine.

Kidderminster Victoria suffered a third defeat in four at the hands of Berkswell, Bromsgrove went down to Walsall and Astwood Bank crashed to an eight-wicket loss to C&R Hawkins.

But in the county league, Droitwich defeated Hagley by 31 runs in Division One.

Bewdley lost to Pershore by 101 runs while Redditch’s struggles continued with a three-wicket loss to Colwall, despite an improved display with the bat.

In Division Two there were wins for Cookley, Stourport and Feckenham respectively over Enville, Lye and Wormelow.

Avoncroft lost a big scoring game to Alveley in Division Three, while Chaddesley Corbett saw off Himbleton.

Alvechurch and Hopwood rose to the top after seeing off Rushwick by five wickets.

For more details on all these matches and even more results, don’t forget to check out the next editions of the Kidderminster Shuttle, Bromsgrove, Redditch and Droitwich Advertisers and their websites this week.