PENISTONE Cricket Club will be playing in Division One next season and could be joined by Monk Bretton despite neither team completing their matches last weekend.

Widespread abandonments left a number of teams getting the calculators out to see how their final weekend would be shaping up.

Penistone are now confirmed as one of three teams to go up.

Captain Tom Exley said: “It would have been nice to win on Saturday and go up but it’s a fair achievement. It’s the highest we will have been since moving across from the Huddersfield league.

“We did set up to go as high as possible and now we want to consolidate and then look to move up again.

“Chris Matthewman has been brilliant and scored a lot of runs.

“Matt Scholey has been Mr Consistent for us and taken a lot of wickets.

"We will look at how we can strengthen now.

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"We go into Saturday wanting to finish on a high and get 12 points."

Monk Bretton have two shots at going up, first at Wath 2nd XI on Saturday.

They will need to make up two points on third-placed Hallam 2nd XI.