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D DIVISION

 

FORMER Devon and Exeter seamer Jon Jenkins rolled back the years to take four for 33 as Chagford started moving away from the D Division West basement with a 68-run win over Woodland Fort.

   Del Owen (30) and former Bovey Tracey big hitter Colin Mortimore (70) were in the runs for Chagford. Paul Ridgers (23) and Josh Rankin (20) weighed in as well.

   Fort skipper Mike Burnett will have been happy enough with Fort's bowling effort as they dismissed Chagford for 178 after they had been 101 for one.

   Rob Stone (3-47), James Brown (2-28) and Mark Humphries (2-0) at the end put the skids under Chagford's lower order.

   Humphries (22) and Matt McKay (37) pointed Fort in the right direction to start with, then trouble appeared in the shape of Jon Jenkins.

   Jenkins (4-33) hit the stumps four times in succession, Duncan Christophers picked up two for 33 and with Dave Endacott and Rankin flushing out the stragglers, Fort were 109 all out having been 100 for five.

 

DARTINGTON & Totnes won for the first time this season when they saw off Lewdown by five wickets.

   Lewdown were always up against it after slumping to 20 for four in the face of some accurate bowling from Bertus Loots (2-30) and Kevin Veale (4-19).

   Phil Yeo (46) and Carl Weeks (29) salvaged something from the wreckage by putting on 84, but when they went the batting collapsed. Lewdown lost six wickets for 20 runs as they tumbled to 124 all out.

   Totnes and Dartington had 55 overs to knock off the runs and got home with 24 of them unused.

   The chase was led by overseas played Tom Williamson with 37 and Matt Hickey, just back from an assessment day in the nets with Warwickshire at Edgbaston, who hit a top score of 37.

 

CHELSTON and Whitchurch Wayfarers fought each other to a standstill in a Torre Valley North thriller than ended in a tie.

   Shaun Daymond (3-37) and Dean Elliot (2-37) did the donkey work with the ball as Whitchurch bowled Chelston out for 196.

   Martin Credicott (83) and Jez Stokes (48) got Whitchurch down to the final over, bowled by Chelston's acting captain Howard Carter, needing for to win with seven wickets intact.

   Whitchurch lost two wickets and scored three runs to finish level pegging with Chelston on 196 for five.

 

IPPLEPEN lost for the second week running in the D Division West when they were five-wicket losers at Hatherleigh.

   The Pens' total of 196 for nine isn't quite as many as it looks at Bridge Road, where they boundaries are short and the ball runs to them without too much resistance.

   Hatherleigh underlined how short of par Ipplepen were by knocking off 197 to win with more than 13 overs to go.

   Tom Cooper, only out once for less than 50 this season, top scored again for the Pens with 55. Cooper and Lee Curtis (16) put up 68 then Luke Tuckett (23) and Steve Bowden helped things along with another 49.

   Pick of the Hatherleigh bowlers with three for 37 was Rob Fishley.

   Hatherleigh signed South African Darryl Barnes from Heathcoat during the close season and were mighty glad they did as he took the to the brink of victory.

   Barnes (82) and Simon Gillespie (42) rattled up 145 between them to end the game as a contest.

   Ipplepen were relegated along with Lustleigh last season and the two of them are back together again in the bottom two slots already.

 

LUSTLEIGH made the relatively short trip to Bridestowe to lose by 122 runs with 16 of their46 overs unused.

   Gary Sizmur, back with Bridestowe after a spell with Whitchurch, hit a top score of 49 not out for the Moorlanders in their tally of 185 for nine. Eddy Jones hit 34. Lustleigh shared the wickets around with Paul Foot (3-27) pipping Mike Sessions (2-57) and Gerard Starling (2-39) for the bowling honours.

   Lustleigh's batting fell apart at the seams as bothers Adam (5-14) and Ned Griffiths (3-13) skittled them out for 63.