Lisburn moved to the top of the Premier League after hanging on to beat Civil Service North by four runs at Stormont. 

The hosts were on course to inflict a first league defeat of the season on Lisburn when Harry Dyer and Stuart Thompson were together. They had put on 98 for the sixth wicket and needed just 30 from the last 23 balls when Callum Atkinson dismissed the CSN captain. 

Next over, Ben Walsh claimed the crucial wicket of Dyer with 20 still needed from 16 balls but now only three wickets left. Walsh bowled Finn Lutton with the last ball of the 48th over and Jon Hinrichsen had Ollie Dyer caught behind three balls later. 

Last man Matthew Kennedy joined Andrew Cowden and with the help of a wide in the last over, Cowden had the chance to win it with a six from Walsh’s final ball. He could manage only a single. 

Jake Collingwood had earlier led the recovery after CSN slumped to 57 for four, scoring 58 in a stand of 96 with Dyer. 

The Lisburn total of 280-8 was dominated by a fourth wicket stand of 159 between Nigel Jones (67) and captain Neil Whitworth who continued his prolific start to the season with 92 (11 fours and a six). 

He was distraught when he steered Lutton straight to his opposite number at backward point and the pace bowler then had Hinrichsen caught behind next ball. He couldn’t go for his hat-trick, however; they were his final two balls of his 10th over. 

James Hunter, however, hit 30 off 27 balls and it proved enough – just.

An understrength Woodvale team were still too strong for Laurelvale as they completed victory by 113 runs. 

Harry Warke led the way for the visitors with 73 from 62 balls (12 fours one six) but when he was third out in the 22nd over with the total on 143, Woodvale lost their way and the next five wickets fell for 42 runs. 

But Ross Copeland then took centre stage and with Evan Carlisle and Matthew Peak put on 91 for the last two wickets, Copeland the last man out for 52, having hit four fours and two sixes. 

Babar Khan got Laurelvale off to a good start with 42 from 44 balls and captain Davy Sinton then provided good resistance in a 65-ball stay. 

But Carlisle ripped through the middle/lower order to finish with five for 33 and the basement side, still waiting for their first Premier League win, were bowled out in 41 overs.