BY CONRAD SUTCLIFFE
HAL Kerton hammered a century for Plymouth in their 99-run pre-season win over Plympton at Mount Wise.
With Kerton making exactly 100 – 116 balls faced, 15 fours dispatched – and Rob Bennett weighing in with 78 Plymouth motored to 276 for four.
Ollie Parsons (32) helped Plymouth to a final total of 294 for six in 50 overs.
Sam Wood (1-14 off 7) bowled tidily for Plympton, as did Steve Raven (1-23 off 7).
Matt Knight (2-55) was the only Plympton bowler to claim more than one wicket.
Plympton, who will be operating in the division below Premier side Plymouth this season, were all out for 195 with more than eight overs un-bowled.
The scoreboard made grim reading for skipper Alex Carr when Plympton were 93 for six with Jack Horton and Justin Wubbeling already out for a brace of 26s.
Student Knight, batting at sixth wicket down, stuck around to make 51 off 56 balls and with Ollie Goulder and Jacob Caunter for company was involved in face-saving stands worth 78 runs.
Richard Goldsby-West (4-57) was the most successful of the Plymouth bowlers, if not the most economical. Fahad Ali (1-29 off 10) was cheapest of them all.
TOM Hughes just missed out on a century in Plymouth 2nd XI’s 204-run win over their Plympton opposite numbers at Harewood Park.
Plymouth recovered from a shocking start – Evie Privett (3-55) had them reeling at 15 for four – to make 310 for eight in 40 overs.
Sam Knapman (34) and Sam White (32) started the fightback, which was taken on by the Hughes brothers, Tom and Jack, who hoisted 171 unbroken for the eighth wicket.
Tom made 97 not out off 68 balls. He needed six off the final over, bowled by Privett, to reach his ton, but could only scamper three singles. Jack was undefeated on 59 when the overs ran out.
Plympton needed a sizeable stand or two in the top half of the order to make a game of it, but lost wickets steadily to Stanley Langmead (2-40) and Dan Farnham (2-18) as they wavered from 55 for two 74 for four then 76 for six. Veteran Keith Willcock top scored on 26 in the running total.
Wickets were shared round with Tom Hughes (2-10) getting in on the act as the last four tumbled for seven runs in a total of 106 all out.
