KINGTON and St Martin's fought out the top of the table clash at the Kington Green with the home side finally getting home by one shot in a nail-biting finish despite winning on only one rink.

The match was tightly contested with St Martin's establishing a narrow five-shot advantage after five ends.

At the half way stage they had extended their lead to eight shots but after 18 ends, Kington had reversed the scores to lead by eight shots with three ends to play. With three rinks finishing early, all won by St Martin's, it was then down to the last rink to finish to decide the match with Kington leading by three shots with two ends to play. Terry Owens' Kington rink were able to restrict the St Martin's rink skipped by Jim Knowles to single shot wins on the last two ends to take the match by one shot.

Kington's table topping victory over St Martin's was followed up with a maximum points haul at Brimfield when they took all four rinks, led by R Bithell's rink with a fine 29-14 win.

But St Martin's kept themselves in touch with the leaders with a 45 shot win at Hereford and also scoring a maximum 16 points.

With three of the St Martin's rinks picking up comfortable wins, it was down to Jim Knowles' rink to score a clean sweep. This they managed after trailing 17-8, when they picked up 12 shots and holding the Hereford rink to just 2 shots so taking the rink by one shot in a 20 - 19 final score.

Brimfield held on to third place in the League with a narrow four shot home win over Hereford but rink honours were shared with both clubs taking two. R Griffiths skipped the best scoring Brimfield rink with a 27 to 15 shot win, which was countered by an 11 shot win for Jan Williams rink for Hereford.

Kingsland and Leominster remain in fourth and fifth place, but without League fixtures this week have seen the leaders move further away. But both clubs have several games in hand over the leading clubs with Kingsland having lost only one match so far this season and Leominster holding the only unbeaten record in the League.

RESULTS Kington 69 St Martins 68 (Home rinks W1 D0 L3), Brimfield 63 Kington 91 (W0 D0 L4), Hereford 54 St Martin's 99 (W0 D0 L4), Brimfield 82 Hereford 78 (W2 D0 L2).