A five-wicket defeat at home to Woodhall Spa kept Spalding in a relegation dogfight in the Lincolnshire Board Premier League.
Only five points now separate the four teams at the foot of the table, with the bottom two due to go down.
Spalding sit just outside the trap door after two of their rivals won but must start picking up wins in their remaining seven games if they are to preserve their status.
Ollie Dring won the toss but his decision to bat backfired with half their wickets falling with only 43 run on the board.
Dring held things together with 27 before an unbeaten last-wicket stand of 55 between last man Matthew Key (32no) and Ethan Lawrence (31no) saw the hosts post 196/9 from their 50 overs after Nilantha Atapattu (24) and Lawrence had moved things on from 91/8.
Atapattu and Barnaby Dring enjoyed early success in the Spa reply, reducing them to 16/2 but a solid middle order gave the visitors the upper hand and they went on to reach their target with more than eight overs and five wickets in hand.
