LEG-spinner Marc Hadwin produced more turn than Hurricane Charlie in cricketing terms to deliver Netherfield the maximum 15-point win they craved on Saturday.

He claimed a hat-trick in his 6-14 return as he removed the last five Barrow wickets for four runs in nine balls at Parkside Road on Saturday.

The upshot was a 105-run victory for the Parksiders, which consolidates their lead at the top of the Northern League's First Division, having taken 42 points out of a possible 45 in their last three matches.

Beaten just twice this season away at Fleetwood and Preston, it is the former club who now look likely to push Netherfield closest in the leaders' bid to regain the championship they last won in 2001 at the end of a golden period of four title successes in five years.

Second-placed Fleetwood still have a fixture in hand, but the kink in the programme will be ironed out cum the Bank Holiday weekend, when Netherfield are without a fixture on Saturday ahead of going to Kendal for Monday's derby encounter.

Good neighbours Kendal, not the first time this season, lent a helping-hand on Saturday by defeating third-placed Morecambe in a low-scoring match.

Another of the challengers fourth-placed Darwen failed to take any points against St Annes, leaving it increasingly looking like a two-horse race for the honours.

Back to Saturday's action and Barrow were smiling after winning the toss and putting Netherfield in a spot of trouble at 2-2 in only the fifth over.

Professional Rawl Lewis took slip catches to get rid of Craig Walmsley and Gareth White off Peter Lawson's bowling.

Dale Benkenstein found the support he wanted in a third-wicket stand with Danny Welbourne, who has been piling up runs for the seconds and got a seasonal bow for the first team to show what he could do.

Together they added 109 in 26 overs before Welbourne was caught behind for 33 with the score on the superstitious 111.

Benkenstein batted for two hours and was next man out for a top-scoring 79 off 61 balls with 11 fours and a six.

After Grahame Clarke departed for 14, another decent partnership of 47 between Tommy Prime and Graeme Dodds took Netherfield to 185-6 and put a 200-plus target in their sights.

With Rishi Girdhari and Chris Parry both absent, however, there was not a lot of firepower left and 29 runs came off the last eight overs for a final total of 214-7.

Key to Barrow's innings was the performance of Lewis and there was a good deal of satisfaction for Netherfield when Walmsley delivered him in the slips off Ryan Wilson for six.

Barrow's best stand of 35 came between James Riley (20) and Shaun Miller (23), but the visitors declined to 86-5 only for Hadwin to wreak devastation in the 40th and 42 overs to transform his 1-11 off eight overs into 6-14 off 10.5 overs.

Barrow, whom Netherfield were completing the double over, were all out for 109 eight overs into the last 20.