- South Dartmoor back to winning ways in cups
- Tom Allin tournament raised more than £5,000 for air ambulance
- Taverners kit bag delivered to Sri Lankan youngsters
- Devon trying to contact the class of 56
- Paceman Tshepo running in Virgin London Marathon
- Five Devon women in Western Storm squad for Kia Super League
- Registration night for all ages at Topsham on Monday
- Lots pouring in for auction at Allin Memorial tournament
- Thames Valley Gentlemen Cricket Club
- Bradninch add Argentinian flavour to Devon League
- Ipplepen youth registration night on Friday
- Final call for Groundsmans first seminar this year
- Devon League official tackling London Marathon for charity
- Bovey on familiar territory in Aaron Printers Cup
- Brockman Cup - Cup Kings lie in wait for holders
- Shepherd Trust helps Kingsbridge build for sustainable future
- DCL - Umpire Appointments 2016 (May 7th - July 2nd)
- Long standing records beaten
- North Devon see off Paignton chase
STOKEINTEIGNHEAD cruised to a well-deserved victory on Sunday in the South Devon League Division 2 game at Paignton.The home side batted first. Openers Ollie Higgs and Tom Blundell did well under the opening Stoke attack of Mark Russell and Pribil Krisnan.
Higgs did most of the early scoring and would continue after Blundell fell to the bowling of Russell. Replacement Noah Wright, brought on a change in the run rate and the score was soon past the century. Krisnan removed Wright for 40 and soon Higgs by Chris Prestt for 56.
Mark Smith with Joel Ashworth took up the battle taking the score to 174. With their demise, Paignton’s fortune turned, with the next 6 wickets falling for just 21.
Young David Rew, in his first league game for the visitors took apart some of the lower order completing his 5 overs with 3 wickets for only 5 runs. Paignton were all out for 195 before the completion of the allotted overs.
In reply, Stoke openers Paul Russell and Andrew Thornton-Clarke, took the game very much to the home side, Unfortunately, Thornton-Clarke was run out early, with Dan Britcliffe who was obviously in fine form taking on the attack.
The score rose to 48 when Russell was bowled by Charlie Slough for 40. The second wave of bowling from Blundell and Harry Ward would suffer from Dan and replacement Jamie Gray, as the score rocketed along to 142 off just 18 overs.
Jamie was taken off the square for 39, from the bowling of S Knight, the result of a superb catch by Ashworth the home side keeper, who ran full stretch and captured the ball with one gloved hand.
Mark Russell took up the chase with Dan.
The run rate slowed down at this point, but the victory was never in doubt, and the final run was scored off Ward with 12 overs to spare.
Stokeinteignhead having become Division 2 champions will now take their place in Division 1 next season.
DIVISION 1 Exeter Conceded to Plympton, Plympton (12pts), Exeter (-6)
DIVISION 2 Paignton 195 (O Higgs 56, N Wright 40, 2nd wkt 83, M Smith 54; D Rew 3-5, P Russell 2-12),
Stokeinteignhead 196-3 (D Britcliffe 60no, J Gray 39, 3rd wkt 94, P Russell 40, M Russell 54no with Britcliffe 4th wkt 54no), Stokeinteign’ (12pts) bt Paignton (3) by 7 wkts.
Plymstock 218-8 (P Williams 37, D Rowbotham 35, C Richards 35; L Burch 4-51),
Raleigh 112 (S Cross 31, G Greenway 26; M Abbott 3-7, M Tarskey 3-40), Plymstock (11pts)(1 deducted), bt Raleigh (3) by 106 runs
DIVISION 3 Lustleigh 256-7 (P Foot 51, Sh Wright 48, 1st wkt 102, J Fulner 60; D Bond 2-16, C Clay 2-37), Kenn 158-6 ( R Parsons 53no, B Gannon 35no, 7th wkt 49no; D Manners-Chapman 4-42), Lustleigh (11pts) bt Kenn (4) by 85 runs.
Stoke Gabriel 212 (M Taylor 71, J Tolley 39, J Atwood 25; R Lambert 2-24, A Harvey 2-35, M Churchuill 2-39), Ashburton 211-6 (M Churchill 24, D Durman 41, A Harvey 66 with S Hulse 5th wkt 57). Gabriel (10pts)(1 deduced) bt Ashburton (6) by 1 run
DIVISION 4 Shaldon 90 (W Moore 35, L Gardner 20no; A Watson 2-13, J De Silva 2-13), Kingsbridge 91-3 (E Bradbury 29, A Watson 17no), Kingsbridge (11pts) bt Shaldon (1) by 7 wkts
Buckfastleigh 98 (S Hardy 22no; D Collins 3-12, T McShane 2-19), Topsham 99-2 ( J Shepherd 28no, I Singh 35no), Topsham (11pts) bt Buckfastleigh by 8 wkts.