Spalding and Long Sutton are still looking for their first Lincolnshire Board Premier League wins with the season already a quarter over.
Only early campaign cancellations keep the duo off the bottom of the table after both suffering their fifth defeats in six games.
Spalding did at least manage to hold on to their last wicket but it was little consolation in a 167-run defeat at Sleaford.
Barnaby Dring (2-67)
gave them an early breakthrough when he halted the opening partnership on 43 but Aayush Patel (102) and Andy Hibberd (61) put on 143 for the second wicket. Dring again ended that partnership and Keyan Gace bowled Patel 48 runs later.
However, Daniel Smith (88no) and Thomas Shorthouse (52no) were not to be beaten and added another 122 before the hosts closed on 353/3.
Wickets fell regularly throughout the Spalding reply with batsmen out just as they looked settled with Ethan Lawrence going for 36, Dring 26, Gace 22 and Jamie Coles 21.
It was left to No10 bat Brandon Andrews and last-man Harry Birch to share an unbroken last-wicket stand of 26 with 13 runs each to see out the 50 overs as Spalding closed on 186/9.
Over at Abbey Lawn, Long Sutton batted first and looked well set on 159/3. However, the loss of Daniel Oldfield for 33 ended an 87-run partnership with Paul Edgeller (106) and they ran out of overs on 239/8.
Edgeller was run out after hitting four sixes and 11 fours.
Bourne made light work of reaching their target with Robert Bentley (116) sharing a solid opening stand of 90 with Jordan Temple (32) before Jonathan Cheer (44no) and Sam Evison (39no) came together to take the home total to 243/2 with 13 overs to spare.
There’s no such problems at Moulton Harrox, where the village side sit top of the South Lincs Border League Championship after a 39-run win against Skegness.
Their success was built on a 92-run second-wicket stand between Jamie Juckes (43) and Flynn McMillan (30), and a partnership of 65 between Robbie Townsend (65) and Blake Wolstenholme (27) for the fourth. Captain Matthew Rose then struck an unbeaten 30-ball 32 to push them to a 45-over total of 235/5.
Opener Thomas Adlington (84) proved a thorn in Moulton’s side but wickets fell around him as Skegness completed their innings on 196/9.
Rose juggled his resources with eight bowlers trying their luck and success came for Townsend (3-40), Wolstenholme (2-8) and Rose himself (2-22) with Chris Beale and Lee Eyett also chipping in with a wicket each.
In Division One, Long Sutton Seconds chalked up their first win of the campaign with a three-wicket success against Royal Boston.
Tim Norris took the last four wickets for just four runs from his 2.4 overs to dismiss the visitors for 125.
He then top-scored in the reply with 25, to go with 23 from Dominic Clay and 18 from opener Aron John as steady scoring pushed them to a winning 128/7 after 36 overs.
A tight encounter at Spalding Seconds saw the hosts remain winless after going down by a single wicket to Orton Park with just seven balls remaining.
Michael Kearns was in fine form but his 79 failed to inspire his teammates, with fellow opener Yuvraj Ranaut the next highest scorer with 11 as they were dismissed for 128 in the 38th over.
Robert Seymour (3-14), William Gardner (3-29) and Ben Sacker (2-20) kept the pressure on Park but a second-wicket stand between Navneet Agnihotri (44) and Clive Evans (20) ultimately proved crucial as they limped to 129/9 with just one ball left of the penultimate over.
Moulton Harrox Seconds also slipped to a narrow defeat, going down to Castor & Ailsworth in Division Two by just four runs. Simon Juckes (4-24) and Zak Maddison (4-37) restricted the hosts to 160/9 but Moulton fell for 156, despite an unbeaten 25 from Juckes.
