Wellington Sunday XI clinched promotion to Division A of the Taunton and District Sunday League for next season with this 73 run full points win at North Petherton last Saturday and with it secured runners-up spot with one game still to play.
 
This match was due to have been played back in July, but due to the Wellington Under 15s run to the National stages of the ECB cup for their age group it was postponed and re-scheduled for after the end of the regular season and on a green, but hard track Wellington were put into bat and saw a most solid start to their innings come about from Michael Gill and Tom Baycock who added 73 for the first wicket – Gill played a fine hand that totalled 98 and he was just short of a ton when he was out caught and Baycock, who made 16, was a fine foil for the free-flowing South African.
 
For North Petherton off spinner Bunce has bowled well in all four games this season between the two sides – two Somerset League Division One and two Sunday League Division B matches – and his burst of  2-14 in seven overs was a fine effort and he was on a hat-trick, but that was about as good as it got for North Petherton as Gill continued to plunder at will all round the park and with Scott Davey who made a Wellington best of 45no he added 100 for the third wicket before going on the stroke of a ton.
 
Davey played a great hand and was just denied a maiden fifty by the overs running out, but he and Neil Hendy with 30no saw that Wellington got to the 200 mark and past it and so collected full batting points with 219-3 at tea been the final total for the Red and Blacks.
 
North Petherton were very slow out of the blocks and this cautious tactic saw their chances of overhauling the 220 needed become very slim indeed as Everett – despite making 44 – took an age to make this total; Jake Nichol took the first two wickets to fall as he took 2-7 in 7 overs and let little go in a fine spell and George Hooper complimented at the other end with 0-7 in 4 overs, but the going was slow and Wellington were having to work very hard for the wickets.
 
Sam Murdock with 2-30 in 7 overs delivered in two bursts got a much needed breakthrough for Wellington and doubled his tally later on.
 
Spin in the form of Sam Baycock with his slow left armers and Rob Moysey’s wrist spin was also pivotal in Wellington removing the stubborn North Petherton line up as the Red and Blacks chipped away to claim a full allocation of 25 points eventually and the job was done by Tom Baycock and Scott Davey with three wickets between them and in the last over when Perkins was bowled by Davey a cheer went up for a job well done and a fifth win in seven matches and promotion along with divisional champions Taunton St Andrews.
 
Wellington have one game left to play in the League and they travel to North Newton on Sunday 12th September for a match that starts at 1.30pm; depart from Courtland Road Car Park at 12.15pm please and notification of selection will be made via Rob Moysey and David Derrick by Thursday.