The phrase 'thrilling finish' is often overused at times in sports reports - but it was a perfectly apt description of the climax to Potters Bar's game with neighbours Old Owens.

It came down to the last over in a low-scoring affair at The Walk, with all three final results still very much on the table.

Bar needed just the one wicket to win while Owens required seven runs.

In the end four dot balls from the first four deliveries put the draw in the driving seat although a single did mean the visitors could still land victory with a boundary off the final delivery.

However, they needed it to clear the rope and instead it trundled over it for four, leaving them two runs shy of victory.

Bar will regret having the best part of five overs to shift Rhys Carter and Robert Sibley and claim victory, a regret that would have grown with news of Harpenden's victory over Bishop's Stortford.

That leaves them 35 adrift of the leaders with seven games to go, while Owens are second from bottom still, 14 points from safety.

Bar had been inserted and made 121 before being bowled out for 121 in the 52nd over.

Ashleigh Cox top scored with 29 while only four more of their line-up got into double figures, all scoring in the teens.

Jake Whickham took 5-65 for Owens while their top scorer with the bat was Jack Timms, who managed 26 from 127 deliveries.

The Bar bowling attack was led by Thilan Walallawita and Jigar Mehta who both claimed four wickets.

Walallawita's quartet came at the cost of 32 runs in 11 overs while Mehta bowled another eight overs more, conceding 39.

Richard Soulsby helped North Mymms to victory. Picture: KARYN HADDON (Image: Karyn Haddon)

North Mymms kept their hopes of the title alive by closing the gap to Potters Bar to just four points.

That was after a four-wicket win at home to basement side Shenley Village.

The Home Farm club inserted their visitors upon winning the toss and kept a lid of the run scoring for the first half of the innings and beyond.

Shenley found themselves with just 77 on the board midway through the 34th set of six, and also six wickets down.

They did speed up after that but most of that was down to Will Thomson who finished on 50.

He was the ninth man out and the final wicket stand could only contribute three runs, leaving Shenley all out for 153 in the 52nd over.

Undoubted hero of the bowling for Mymms was William Jones who returned stunning figures of 6-36 after 19 overs bowled.

Dharmarajsinh Jhala got two wickets with Yuvresh Malhotra Zaid Kureshi getting the others.

In contrast, the home side had 30 runs on the board when Kureshi became their first man out in the 10th over.

And they had reached 77 when Neil Bamford was the third man to go, that total coming 11 overs quicker than the visitors.

That started a minor stumble, with a further three wickets falling for just 10 runs, opener Guganesham Muralitharan among them with 41.

But an unbeaten seventh-wicket stand of 72 from Richard Soulsby (22*) and Jones (47*) saw Mymms to a comfortable success.

Potters Bar go to Bishop's Stortford on Saturday but both North Mymms and Old Owens are at home.

Mymms host Radlett while Owens face a vital relegation scrap with Shenley.