E DIVISION WEST
ALEX Dunlavey helped himself to a maiden Devon League century for Plymouth CS&R in a 160-run win over Bovey Tracey 3rd XI.
Civil were going nowhere in particular when Dunlavey went in a 102 for six after Dan Winsor had just been dismissed for 39 by Sam Russell.
Dunlavey took three balls to get his eye in, hit the next one for four then proceeded to smack the bowling around for the ensuing 25 overs.
A stand of 95 for the seventh wicket with Rafiqul Haque got Civil motoring, then Al Stewart (22) joined Dunlavey to add 76 in the last six overs.
Dunlavey reached the final over from Jack Ansley needing 10 runs for his century and he took a two the four fours to do it.
Bovey were an unimpressive 18 for three following a salvo from Matt Trevorrow (2-36) and never really recovered.
Russell made 38 and Harry Pitman 14, but wickets fell regularly to Matt Ball (2-11) and Saqib Hasan (2-24) as Bovey folded from 81 for five to 89 for eight and on to 113 all-out.
TAVISTOCK 2nd XI entertained a weakened Plymouth 3rd XI to the Ring looking to continue their recent run of good results.
Marc Lewis returned to the side after a two-week hiatus and Kev Alexander made his long awaited debut after his comeback from injury. Lewis lost the toss and Tavvy were asked to field.
Swanepoel and Lewis took the new ball and kept things tight. Jason Degg was batting well however and runs were ticking along nicely for the visitors. Swanepoel (1-22) got the much needed breakthrough for the hosts, trapping Moore (11) lbw, and the Lewis (1-28) got in on the action bowling Johnson (0).
Tavvy were struggling with the basics and runs continued to flow, until the introduction of Ryan Burke. Firstly he got the important wicket of Degg for a well made 53, before bowling Bridgett (19).
Another two quick wickets of Rushdie (6) and Henwood (19) followed before another important wicket, that of Vile (46), brilliantly caught at slip by the skipper, put a halt on the scoring.
Five wickets wasn’t enough for Burke though as he went on to clean up Henwood snr (0) and Sharp (0) to finish with magnificent figures of 7-30. The other wicket to fall came courtesy of a stumping off veteran Gauler (1-41). Plymouth finishing on 171 all out.
After a small Break, openers Webber and Burke set about the chase on what still looked a belter of a wicket. Burke (3) was the first to perish, adjudged to have snicked one through to the keeper off Henwood (1-26). Bott (6) fell in similar fashion to Sharp (also 1-26).
Webber was going strong at the other end and when Joined by Scott-Munden, made quick inroads into the target. Webber fell just after the first drinks break, caught off the bowling of Degg for 55, Degg (3-36) then picked up the wickets of McGahey (5) and Scott-Munden for a brisk 53. Gauler (4) fell lbw to Prosser (1-5) before Nick Coe (16no) saw Tavvy home with more than 15 overs to spare.
