Devon Cricket Board - Pugh tops Babbacombe awards list

Pugh tops Babbacombe awards list

BABBACOMBE had plenty to celebrate at their end-of-season awards night.
First team captain Steve Broad was presented with a special trophy to mark the club’s historic third successive promotion as champions, a feat never before achieved in the Devon League.
Mike Pugh topped the 1^st XI batting averages with 359 runs at an average of 59.83 and finished with the best average in D Division too.
First team player-coach Andy Kingdon won the batting runner-up award, finishing the season with the second-best average in the D Division (55.80) and was third-highest run scorer in the competition with 557.
Top of the list with 606 was Clyst St George skipper Chris Ferro.
Bowling honours for club and league went to evergreen slow left-armer Paul Bates – 31 at 7.94 - whose six for 17 return against Ashburton was the season’s best in the D Division.
Whitchurch might just disagree as Bates took five wickets for no runs against them.
The leading wicket taker in last season’s D Division was Babbacombe’s South African paceman A J Van Wyk (above), who took 35 at a respectable 10.94.
All-rounder Pugh (right) won the player of the year award and chairman Nick Goodwin received clubperson of the year for his continued conscientious work off the pitch.
The club has plans to continue its growth next year with the expansion of the colts section, a new all-weather strip and an attempt at achieving an unprecedented fourth promotion into the Devon League B Division.
The second team consolidated their status in the D Division (West) after winning promotion the previous season. They expect to be vying for the top in 2015.
The 2nd XI awards were dominated by Marcus Thompson, who topped the batting and bowling averages plus the player of the year award.
Thompson scored 500 runs at an average of exactly 50, which included a century against Ashburton. He was second overall in the division behind Clyst St George’s Tim Read.
His 28 wickets at 14.4 included a five-for-42 haul, also against Ashburton.
The bowling runner-up award went to Tim Stapleton (24@16.24) and batting runner-up to captain Seb Loram (208 runs).
The awards evening was hosted just a six-hit away from the club’s Walls Hill base at the Mason’s Arms pub.

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