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SOUTH African new boy Sean Dick marked his Heathcoat debut with a four-wicket haul the help the new C Division leaders to a seven-wicket win over Ivybridge.

   Jack Menheneott (4-40) and (4-47) did the damage with the ball for the Tiverton side as Ivybridge were skittled out for 138.

   Gareth Andrews (50) and Karl Prescott (33) scored the bulk of Ivybridge's runs on a disappointing day with the bat.

    Knocking off the runs was never going to be problem for Heathcoat after Chris Parks (48) and Joe Smith (44) had put on 78. Sam Smith (8no) and James Williams (14no) finished the chase with the minimum of fuss. Jamie Bullock, Prescott and Adam Birch had a wicket each for Ivybridge.

   Victory leaves Heathcoat a point clear of Cockington at the top of the table. The Torquay outfit bounced back from their defeat at Clyst Hydon with a seven-wicket win at Stoke Gabriel , who were top of the table going into the last round of fixtures.

   Stoke needed more on the board than 168 all out to challenge Cockington – a point proved when the target was knocked off with 13 overs to spare.

   Rob Burnie (41) made early runs for Stoke, but lacked support as Chris Needham (4-32), Darren Scott (3-26) and Graham Furze (2-21) reduced them to 123 for seven.

   Nick Sandbrook's 25 not out at the end made the Stoke total a little more respectable.

   Cockington lost Scott Colegate on 11 – one of three wickets for Sandbrook (3-48) – then cruised to 156 for two to end the game as a contest.

   A double strike from Sandbrook sent back Shaun Needham for 89 and brother Peter without troubling the scorers.

   But skipper Scott was still there and saw Cockington home with an unbeaten 49,

   Mark Kingdom thumped an unbeaten century as Feniton moved away from the foot of the C Division table with the 14-point proceeds from a winning draw with Kilmington .

   Feniton skipper Graham Tucker opted to bat first and set a target for a change – and was rewarded with the massive total of 293 for two declared.

   “The only reason for carrying on would have been to break the divisional batting record (339) and there didn't seem much point as we had enough runs already,” said Tucker.

   Tucker slammed 17 fours and three sixes on his way to 132 not out and featured in a partnership worth 219 for the first wicket with Dave Haysom. Haysom, who biffed eight fours and five sixes, was out three runs short of what would have been a deserved century.

   Adrian Pullin chipped in with 24 not out before Tucker declared.

   Kilmington quickly adopted a safety first approach and meandered their way to 176 for seven by the time their overs ran out.

   Rory Helliar followed up his 50 in the win over Babbacombe seven days earlier with another 46. Top scorer for Kilmington was John Lavendar with an unbeaten 54.

   Pick of the Feniton bowlers with five for 43 was Dave Carnall. Russ Witton had two for 36.

   Bottom club Dawlish & Teignmouth ended a run of three straight defeats by holding on in the last over for a draw at Clyst Hydon .

   Ian Sutton's run-filled season continued for Clyst as he helped himself to 42 in a total of 205 for six. After Sutton gave Clyst a start, Graham Trude (61) and Clint Lewis (53) pushed the score along.

   The only D&T bowler to have any success was Tim O'Connell with five for 47.

   Billy Alcock dropped anchor for a patient 44 as D&T set off in reply. Will Gregg (3-40) and Kevin Sercombe (4-30) made regular inroads and going into the last over D&T only had two wickets left.

   Sercombe took one of them, but D&T's pair blocked it out to close on 150 for nine.

   Steve Gledhill and Steve Inch got Kingsbridge off the hook against Babbacombe and pointed them towards an unlikely winning draw.

   At least a favourable result for Kingsbridge looked unlikely when they were 53 for five and struggling against the spin of Paul Bates (4-68).

   Skipper Gledhill swiped his way to a top score of 81 and Inch made a valuable 33 as Kingsbridge recovered to make 224 for eight.

   Babbacombe ran into early difficulties against Neil Peach (2-46) but recovered through Rob Bloxham (55) to reach 100 for five.

   What Babbacombe couldn't make up for though was lost time and, with the asking rate in eight an over territory, they went for safety first and the draw. Tim Goodwin made 53 not out and Steve Myers was unbeaten on 27 in final total of 180 for five.