D Division West round-up – week four: Torquay & Kingskerswell win at Kenn to move out of bottom two | With pictures
TORQUAY & Kingskerswell 2nd XI are out of the bottom two in the D Division West thanks to a three-wicket win over Kenn.
It was a workmanlike performance from Torquay & Kingskerswell, who held Kenn to 202 for eight, then knocked off the runs with exactly three overs to spare.
Opener Chris May top scored for Kenn with a run-a-ball 55. Alfie Mason (34) and Oli Walter (25) took the tally to 153 for four before T&K’s bowlers struck.
Four wickets fell for nine runs scored on the slide to 162 for eight. James Mason – three sixes and a four on the way to 29 not out – revived Kenn in the final few overs.
Spin bowling stopped Kenn pulling away with tidy spells from Tobias Delahunty (2-22), Abu Bakar (3-23 and Towkir Choudhury (1-35).
There were runs all the way through T&K’s top six, although no one got as far as 40.
It was a sum-of-the-parts chase with Ant Nadar (32), Bobby Western (27), Delahunty (27) and Bakar (26) all chipping in.
James Mason (3-28) kept T&K’s batters honest. James Gosling and Chris May both operated below four an over.
A SIX-wicket haul for J J Bryant helped bowl Ivybridge 2nd XI to a 41-run win over D West strugglers Babbacombe.
Babbacombe, chasing 239 to win, were 140 for two with 14 overs to go when Bryant came into the attack … and was knocked around for 12 runs.
Aiden Lightowlers was on the way to 73 at the time and veteran Marcus Thompson was approaching 80.
That was as good as it got for Babbacombe as Bryant took at least one wicket in every over he bowled after that – and two in a row to finish the match.
Bryant had figures of six for 30 as Babbacombe were bundled out for 197. If Bryant did not get them, Jake Dunn (2-32) probably did.
Thew Ivybridge total of 238 for eight was constructed around an on-song top four of Sam Kidd (20), Sam Northmore (40), Simon Kidd (72) and Dunn (35). The latter duo put on 85 for the third wicket.
Best of the bowling for Babbacombe was provided by Henry Stubbs (2-44) and Andy Lockyer with two for 45 in his first game after three years out due to injury.
BARTON were given a run for their money by Plymouth 2nd XI before clinching a two-wicket win in a low-scoring affair at Cricketfield Road.
Plymouth reached 93 for two without too many issues thanks to Saiesh Reddy (33) and Jake Smith (28). Then the wheels fell off!
Sreejith Sankaranaryanan (6-15) and Dave Cadwallader (2-14) went through the batting order like a dose of salts. The last man out was Plymouth captain James Toms, who counts Barton among his former clubs.
Knocking off the runs was hardly a pleasure cruise for Barton, who were 84 for six in reply with Adrian Lipton (33) and Lewis Crocker (23) back in the hutch.
Cadwallader’s 21, coupled with 13 not out by Riley Calland, got Barton over the line.
All six Plymouth bowlers took at least one wicket. Jack Hughes (2-26) and Melissa Banks (2-16) went one better.
CHAGFORD regained their winning touch in the D Division West by inflicting a 105-run reversal on Plymouth CS&R.
The Moorlanders lost their unbeaten record and top spot in the table seven days earlier when Ivybridge 2ndXI turned them over.
The return of Richard Hopwood at the top of the batting order after a weekend away had a dramatic effect as he walloped 150 not out in a Chagford total of 240 for nine. With scores of 54, 85 and now 150 this season, he is an important cog in the 
Chagford machine.
Will Paterson (20) and Stuart Lipo (23) batted around Hopwood as the scoreline mounted.
Eight bowlers had a go at removing Hopwood with no success on that front. There were two wickets for Matt Trevorrow, Ritesh Dubey and Dan Winsor.
Civil were all finished and done on 135 all out with more than 14 overs to go.
Take out 41 from Winsor and 34 by Abraham Thomas and there was not a lot from the rest.
Andrew Paterson had the first two Civil wickets to fall. The real damage was done by Neil Rowlands, who took four for 21, including three in seven balls across two overs.
YELVERTON came off second best by 72 runs when they encountered D West leaders Hatherleigh.
Skipper Danny Forrester moved himself up the order to open the batting for Hatherleigh and was second out on 57 for 32.
The runs kept coming down the order from Gareth Tidball (68), Zak Spears (34) and Luke Westacott (30). Spears and Tidball put on exactly 100 for the fifth wicket.
Hadleigh Scott-Kirk (3-43) topped the Yelverton bowling stats ahead of Ed Sorensen (2-26) and Mike Lemmings (2-29).
Yelverton started brightly with a stand of 65 between Lemmings (34) and skipper David Ackford (52).
Once Oscar Moore (3-29) and Westacott (3-25) got into the middle order it all went wrong for Yelverton.
Only Scott-Kirk (19) got into double figures as Moore, Westacott and Cameron Rowlands (2-7) bowled Yelverton out for 154.
