Wellington had chances to restrict Ilton to under 200 in this Somerset League Division One fixture last Saturday, but the home side, who only recorded four double figure scores in their innings, did enough to lay down a total that was beyond the reach of the Red and Blacks in the final analysis.
Ilton batted first and got off to a fair start with Williams and Price adding 43 first up, but David Marshall got one through Williams defence for 19 and Ilton skipper Oliver, who had hit 157no on the first week of the season, was run out for zero.
Ilton then regained the impetus as Price and Shaffique added 65 third wicket runs before another double breakthrough came Wellington’s way as skipper Rob Moysey removed Shaffique and the much-travelled Denslow for a second duck of the Ilton innings.
All the time Price was benefiting from a spurned run out chance that had come Wellington’s way when he had made precious few of the 89 that he finally managed, this was the difference between Wellington winning and losing in all probability.
Moysey carried through to 4-43 in 12 good overs of leg-spin with Kevin Symons and David Marshall collecting scalps as well.
The Ilton innings was wrapped up by Phil Nicholls who took 2-6 late on a the home side were all out for 207 in the last allotted over of their innings.

Wellington’s innings could not have started in a worse way as they slid to 3-2 in the third over, but Alex Sparks, who was forced to retire hurt and resume his innings later, and Matt Colman got their side going again in the right way and the score was approaching the forties when Colman was run out for 21. Sparks was on the sidelines by this time.
Marc Holloway and Mark Saunders added 59 runs from this point and Wellington were half-way towards their target, but from 96-3 they slid to 106-7 and needed propping up big time.
David Marshall cracked 32 good runs and was the penultimate wicket to fall as Wellington got past the eight batting points level.
Simon Rudd made 23 from his position at number nine, but the game was away from Wellington and they were all out for 168 in 41.1 overs to suffer a 39 run defeat that saw Ilton go up to second in the early season table with Wellington receiving 18 points to lie seventh.