Colin Crease got off to a good start in his quest for another Wessex Centre Trial championship win by winning the Kingswood Club's Avery Trophy event at Yate on Sunday.

Staged over four laps of ten sections at the Yate Court Group, he lost ten marks less than Craig Talbot, whilst Southern Centre challenger Kevin Hart from Bournemouth took third.

A steep climb across slippery cambers in the third section claimed marks from the entire entry, including 14 from Crease who stopped on one of his laps.

Talbot, who lost a total of 12 there, gained a two-mark advantage over Crease but he did not fare as well as the titleholder in the fourth and seventh sections.

Yeovil's Ricky Wiggins extended his lead in the South West Centre Series with his fourth win in as many rounds in the Torridge Club's Si Higgins trophy event at Kilkhampton near Bude.

Nick Baker, who was his closest challenger in the first three rounds near Taunton, North Bovey and Ashburton, again finished second. Wiggins' recipe for success was his consistency.

In three laps of a dozen sections in Hessaford Farm he lost eight marks on each of his first two laps and ten on his last as opposed to Baker, whose lap scores were 11, nine and 22.

South West Enduro champion Jason Fraser switched from Yamaha to Suzuki during the close season, and he rode his new mount to a six minute win over Chris Dustow in the first round of the new series in Lewgate Woods, near Liskeard on Sunday.

Totnes all rounder Nick Life led the three hour marathon in the early stages but had to retire with an eye injury after a stone pierced his goggles near the halfway mark.