CROSSFLATTS Village have given a huge boost to their title challenge, while putting a halt to a rival’s credentials in the Bradford Sunday Alliance Premier Division.

The second-placed side piled the pressure on leaders Westwood Park - who had no fixture at the weekend - with a 2-0 win at Oakenshaw.

A win for the hosts would have kept their slim championship hopes alive, but visitors Crossflatts put a stop to that.

Joint league top scorer Patrick Sykes was unable to hit the net for Oakenshaw, with goals from Billy Bailey and Ben Marczynski bagging Flatts the victory.

They now sit just two points shy of the leaders, with a game in hand as well.

Crossflatts’ opponents for the coming weekend, West Bowling, are gathering pace after another win.

They beat Bolton Woods at home 6-3 in a game which was a tale of two halves.

Woods started off lively but it was Bowling who struck first with a volley from Joe Jagger.

After 27 minutes they went further ahead when Kyle Dyche calmly went around a defender and the goalkeeper before slotting home from a tight angle.

Another minute on the clock and Bowling had scored again through Dyche, marking the side’s 100th goal of the season.

Bowling were on fire and Tawheed Ahmed showed good footwork before slotting the ball in by the post to make it four.

The score was 5-1 at the break after a Wayne Sparkes chip for the home side was cancelled out by a Matthew Addy goal.

After making it 5-2 early in the second period, any semblance of a comeback was diminished when Bowling made it six in the 63rd minute.

Callum Wheatley hit a 30-yard thunderbolt when the ball came out to him from a corner.

Woods managed a consolation late on through Scott Mortimer.

Heaton and Tyersal came up against each other for the second time in a week in the Championship, but this time the points were not to be shared.

Visitors Tyersal smashed eight past their hosts, with only one goal coming in reply from relegation-threatened Heaton.

There were two hat-tricks in the match - one for Glynn Beale and then Adam Jarrett added a fourth to his initial triple. James Mortimer got the other goal for the victors.

The win gives Tyersal a real chance at the top of the tree, sitting seven points behind the leaders but with three games in hand.

It was another high-scoring affair in the only other Championship game, where Wrose Bull won 9-0 at Heaton’s relegation rivals Rattlers.

The pick of the bunch in Division One was a 4-3 mid-table clash victory for FC Queensbury at Fairweather Green.

In the basement of the league, promotion hopefuls White Hart beat 10th-placed Hunsworth 12-0.

But, their rivals Clayton Albion and George Hotel also bagged comprehensive victories to keep it tight at the top.