It was not the greatest of weekends for High Roding Cricket Club as only one of their three teams won.
That was the seconds who defeated South Woodham at home by seven wickets.
Putting Woodham in to bat, Roding restricted them to 183-8 with two wickets each for Amit Tulaskar (2-40), Joe Murphy (2-26) and Henry Welland (2-35).
An excellent opening partnership from Harry Pilcher (86) and Zaharia Abbas (42) then set Roding on their way to a victory wrapped up thanks to 27 from Tahir Khan.
The thirds though fell to a 108-run loss at Sawbridgeworth.
The home side scored 245-6 with Jeff Clarke the pick of the Roding bowlers with 3-34.
And he was the only batsman to put together any runs together too, scoring 41not out as Roding slumped to 137.
The first team suffered an 18-run loss in the Mid Essex League Premier Division, beaten away to bogey club South Loughton who had defeated them earlier in the campaign.
Loughton batted first and posted a total of 206, something that should have been a more than achievable target.
Alex Haines took 2-28, Freddie Burns 3-48 and Tom Cherry 2-6 but Roding then had a difficult start with Ben Chillingworth out early.
Charlie Knightley got 48, George Halls 33 and Angus Burns 25 but they were all out for 188.
They are now 42 points behind leaders Basildon.
High Easter had a much better day in Division Three though as they won by 187 runs at home to Old Chelmsfordians in a rain-shortened contest.
There were runs galore at the Pleasure Ground, starting when the hosts opted to bat first.
They got to 340-5 in 40 overs as everyone seemed to come to the party.
Henry Brisland and Dave Jackson put on 76 for the first wicket with Jackson scoring 51, including 11 fours.
Brisland was then joined by Waseem Abbasi (41) before Matt Green and Brisland thumped a 157-run partnership.
The opener eventually fell but not after he had smashed 133 runs in 104 balls,19 of them going for four and two for six.
Green chipped in with six fours and three sixes in his 67 not out.
Chelmsford never enjoyed anywhere near that success as they ended up done on 153.
Jackson took 3-40 for Easter with 2-27 from Tom Moss and 2-12 for Steve Hills.
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