Reed 1st team went down to their 4th defeat of the season on Saturday against fellow promotion hopefuls Totteridge all but eliminating any hopes of moving up to Herts division three next year.

The game began well for the home side with Clarke taking 3 early wickets, With Tidey keeping runs down at the other end with his usual controlled swing bowling Reed were well placed. Totteridge were moving at just 2 runs an over up until the 33rd over. However, then Poland who had stuck it out at number 3 began to open his shoulders and with the help of Goldsmith amongst others in the lower order managed to help Totteridge to a decent score of 201-8 after 50 overs. Paceman Clarke was the pick of the bowlers with 5-65(his second 5 wicket haul in as many weeks) putting in an excellent performance once again.

In reply, reed got off to a good start with Heslam (35)and Curtis(19) putting on 50 for the first wicket inside 10 overs. This was despite being up against a useful opening pair and with the likelihood of lesser bowlers to come on reed looked well set. However, Curtis was out soon after followed by Chris Jackson and later Heslam with the score at just 66. This meant the middle order had a big part to play and despite a good knock by the inform Rich Johnson(29), opener Hall managed to keep bowling at a reasonable pace throughout the innings doing the main damage taking 6-68. This meant that reed only managed to reach 138 before Tidey was last man out in the 37th over.