Drings star to as Town win

It’s three wins in a row for Spalding Town as they won a high scoring match at Nettleham.
Half centuries from Mitch Freeman and Chris and Ollie Dring were mainstays after the Town skipper elected to bat first on winning the toss but was then out lbw for a diamond duck off the first ball of the innings.
Fellow opener Freeman and Ethan Lawrence (27) shared a partnership of 71 as Spalding rebuilt.
Aussie Freeman fell soon after for a well made 55 which saw Chris Dring come in to join son Ollie to up the run rate.
They put on 85 at quicker than a run a ball, Ollie hitting six fours and two sixes in his 61 from 50 balls.
Chris had 11 fours hitting 71 from 73.
Nice cameos from Josh Lawrence (32 not out) and a quicker than a run a ball 20 by Nilantha Atapattu saw Spalding post 274 from their 50 overs.
That Nettleham got within 22 runs of that total was largely down to their opener Darius Govender.
He hit an excellent 120 off 103 balls before finally being the seventh man out with the score on 223.
It was another Dring pairing that ended his innings, Barnaby Dring taking the catch off Ollie Dring’s (1 for 21) bowling.
While Govender excelled Spalding continued to take wickets at the other end throughout the innings.
Brandon Andrews claimed 3 for 46, Freeman 2 for 50 and William Gardner 1 for 31.
Nettleham were eventually 252 all out with eight balls to spare.
Elsewhere Spalding’s 2nd and 3rd XIs had disappointing days with the bat.
The 2nd XI in the South Lincolnshire and Border League Division One were all out for 73 chasing Heckington’s 248 for 4.
Number nine Tom DeCamps top scored for Spalding with 21 having earlier taken 1 for 41 with the ball alongside wickets for Rob Seymour (2 for 31) and Yuvraj Ranaut (1 for 36).
Similarly in Division Two, Spalding 3rds were 67 all out chasing Ketton Sports 2nd XI’s 277 for 8.
Billy Gallagher took 5 for 21 for Spalding but there was a fine 115 from Keton’s Toby Coulson.
Town’s top five all scored ducks as Dylan Criddle took 5 for 6 in four overs.
Eva Larter’s 23 not out batting at nine helped Spalding over 50.