Coleraine returned to the top of the Premiership with a superb chase to beat Brigade at Beechgrove, making up for the disappointment of their last wicket loss against Newbuildings. Brigade looked out of sight at the half-way point after they made 291 in 45 overs, with Scott Macbeth hitting 88 ( 4fours, 7 sixes). He shared a stand of 116 in 13 overs with Ifty Hussain who made 86. Scott Campbell and Rory Knox each took three wickets. Paddy Carson made a fluent 34 at the top of the order, but three wickets for Macbeth had the game seemingly taking its natural course at 83 for four, The Bannsiders obviously hadn't read the script and proceeded to turn things on their head. Marcus Poskitt hit an unbeaten 111 from just 97 balls (11 fours, 6 sixes) adding an unbroken 210 with ex-Brigade (and a few others) batsman David Cooke. The Irish international has been pivotal in Coleraine's success this season, and his tenth four took him to his century as the six wicket win was achieved with 15 balls to spare. As David Coleman used to say - quite remarkable..

Donemana went to the top of the Premiership with a relatively comfortable seven-wicket win against Ardmore at the Bleachgreen. The hosts reached 98 for 2 with Junaid Ali making 50 (9 fours) but they were bowled out for 184 with three wickets for Andy McBrine and two apiece for captain Gary McClintock and Anuj Jotin. Jamie Huey (31) and McClintock (24) shared an opening stand of 57, while Raymond Curry made an unbeaten 47 sharing a third wicket stand of 73 with Anuj Jotin (30). Andy McBrine also made 21 not out as they eased to the win in the 34th over.

Brigade's middle-order was to the fore as they beat Bready by 120 runs. Anuk Fernando top-scored with 75 (6 fours, 1 six), adding 71 for the fourth wicket with Scott Macbeth (50) and 99 for the fifth with Cameron Melly - who hit a 48-ball 63 (9 fours, 1 six) as Brigade posted 270 for 9. Teenager Travis Faulkner impressed with four wickets. The chase never got going as Bready were bowled out for 150 - Ian Young made a defiant 50, while there were two wickets apiece for Andy Britton, David Barr and Scott Macbeth.

Coleraine were knocked off the leaders slot with an agonising one-wicket loss at Newbuildings. David Cooke's 82 (11 fours, 2 sixes) took the Bannsiders to 225 for 9 - runs too for Louren Steenkamp (32). The hosts looked dead and buried as wickets for Gareth Burns (3-38) and Stephen Hutchinson (2-39) had them 116 for 7 and 139 for 8. However, Charlie Downey joined former skipper Gareth McKeegan with the latter hitting 6 fours and 3 sixes in a top score of 57. When he fell, 43 were still required, but Downey hit seven fours in an unbeaten 44 to win the game with number 11 Jack McIntyre (18*) in a real thriller of a game.

Another close game was at Strabane Park where it took to almost 8.20pm before the home side clinched a two-wicket win over Eglinton. The match was a tale of two hundreds as Eglinton recovered from 76 for 5 to score 232. Captain Jamie Millar hit 10 fours and two maximums in an unbeaten 116 - half his side's score- sharing stands of 76 with Jack Martin (44) and an unbroken 9th partnership of 76 with Mark Averill. The chase was all about Strabane's Sri Lankan professional Ranjitha Liyanarachichi whose even time 113 included 15 fours and a six. Mark Averill's (4-40) late burst set up a tense finale, but no better man for a crisis than John Mooney, who got the REd Caps over the line with eight balls left.