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LEWDOWN captain Harry Geering remains convinced the Moorlanders can play their way out of trouble despite a third defeat in the last four starts.
Promotion hopefuls Paignton won by 109 runs at Lewdown after recovering from 123 for seven to make 234 all out.
Geering said Paignton are the best side Lewdown have run into this season – and he wasn’t worried about the result.
Results elsewhere did Lewdown a small favour – they didn’t lose as badly as Abbotskerswell, who have dropped behind them into the bottom two – and they now enter a run of winnable games.
“Paignton have the longest batting line-up I have seen in our division as any other side who are 120-odd for seven will be all out pretty soon,” said Geering.
“They put on more than a hundred for the last three wickets and had a number 10 who could bat anywhere he wanted in our top four!
“Now we have got Paignton out of the way our last four games are all the other sides in the bottom five.
“If we bowl as well as we did against Paignton and get any of them 120 for seven we ought to win enough of the games to stay up.”
Paignton really did struggle with the Lewdown bowling as they were 35 for four, 99 for five and six and 123 for seven.
Chris Kelmere (43) and Mickey Cousens (31) were the only batters to get much change out of the bowlers. Talan Burns (3-39) edged the bowling figures in a tight contest with Phil Yeo (2-35) and David Ball (2-41).
Lewdown couldn’t shift Miko Ekstrom (46) or number 10 Dan Wolf (36no), whose stand of 54 was significant.
When Ekstrom went last man George Yates shored up one end while Wolf played enough shots at the other to put on 32 more.
Geering and Ball (29) put on 39 for Lewdown’s first wicket, them the breakthroughs started to come regularly.
Ekstrom, Kelmere and paceman George Benton had three wickets each as Lewdown were bowled out for 125.