Staverton Park made a positive start to their season as they prevented reigning champions Peterborough Milton from recording back-to-back wins with a 5½-2½ home victory.
After whitewashing Overstone in their opening contest last weekend, Milton made a solid start as Ian Symonds won game one on the 16th, while Rory Edwards clinched the fourth tie on the same hole.
Staverton duo Rob Hemus and David Walshe clinched the second and third games and with the next match finishing all square, the result remained in the balance.
It was the home team who took control however as Miles Mudge (6&5) and Josh Morris (5&4) recorded convincing wins, before Michael Franklin beat Adrian Firman down the last to complete the scoring.
Overstone recovered from their hammering at Peterborough eight days earlier to inflict a 6-2 home defeat on Northants County on Sunday.
Pete Goddard and Andy MacDonald got Overstone off to a positive start as they defeated Tom Bullough and Alan Linney respectively in the opening two ties.
County’s Danny Roberts pulled one point back with a 3&2 win, but Ian Kennedy (2&1) and James Barker (3&2) took their games to guarantee Overstone at least a draw.
The home victory was quickly confirmed when Harry Woan went two up with two to play against Tom Duck after holing a 20-footer for birdie on the 16th hole.
Woan closed out his tie and, although away debutante Dan Ashcroft defeated Richard Dalton down the last, Overstone completed a satisfying outing when Tom Anderson beat Adam Print on 18.
In division two, Kettering maintained their unbeaten start to the season as they recorded a 6-2 home victory over Rushden, who are still searching for their first point of the campaign.
Fresh from drawing at Kingsthorpe in their opening contest, Kettering made a strong start as Jamie Ashcroft, James Northern and Rob Stevenson strolled in with 5&4 victories under their belts.
Rushden responded through Nick Statham (4&3) and Ian Dickerson (3&2) but the hosts took the final three points on the closing green as Andy Draper, Andy Lilly and Michael Campbell triumphed.
In division three, Brampton Heath made it two wins out of two this season with a crushing 7-1 home victory against Whittlebury Park.
After edging a tight contest at Cold Ashby last weekend, Brampton made a blistering start as Brendan Kelly (5&4), Harry Brown and David Gottsch (both 6&5) recorded big wins.
Alec Francis was even more impressive as he completed an incredible 9&7 victory over Martin Conley, before Guy Loveland secured the team success on the 17th hole.
Ollie Salter added another home point on the penultimate green to make it 6-0, before Whittlebury got themselves on the scoreboard with a couple of half points in the final two ties.
Jon Newman finished level with Brampton’s Fraser Carnihan, while away teenager Sam Henfrey drew with his county boys team-mate Jack Brown.
Cold Ashby suffered their second successive one-point defeat this season as they went down by the narrowest of margins away to Farthingstone.
The visitors started brightly as Brad Green and Jack Collins picked up the first two points with wins on the 17th hole, while Greg Croxton defeated Ian Donald by the same score.
Farthingstone were always in control of the remaining matches as Mick Barnett and Ian Donald clinched a 2&1 win apiece, while Paul Hodgkiss defeated Graham Bott 4&3.
Martin Crowther’s half secured the win after Matt Hodgkiss had produced a breathtaking round against Bob Clayton as he won nine consecutive holes, culminating in an eagle two on the 12th.
Cherwell Edge made an excellent start to their division four campaign to get out of the bottom section as they won 6-2 away to Stoke Albany, who suffered a 7-1 hammering at Daventry the previous weekend.
Although seven of the eight ties reached the 16th green at least, Cherwell were always in control as they secured a convincing win.
Ben Anderson and John Thompson triumphed 2&1, Matt Riddle won the next tie 4&3, before Stephen King and Graham Collett confirmed an away victory with two holes to spare.
Andy Reuthe (2&1) and Steve Donald (4&2) got Stoke on the scoresheet, but Dave Grant completed the formalities for Cherwell by beating Ernie Rayner 3&1 in the last game.