D Divison East round-up – week five: Sidmouth make if five in a row at the top
CHARLIE Brock helped himself to an unbeaten 64 as Sidmouth 2nd XI made it five out of five at the top of the Tolchards DCL D East table.
The Shells were bowled out for 162, which Sidmouth wiped off with more than 17 overs unused.
Brock put on 49 opening up with Will Goodall, 19 with veteran Anthony Griffiths, 62 alongside Davis Trego (40) and 33 unbroken with skipper James Docherty (28no) to win it. Docherty hit six fours during his 14-ball visit to the middle.
Topsham made a respectable start themselves as Declan Wardell (27), Dan Croxall (44) and Ross Treleaven (19) got them up to 131 for four. Treleaven’s dismissal by Cameron Neame signalled the beginning of the end for the Shells.
Neame went on to claim four for 26 and there were three wickets for Docherty (3-21) as the home side were bowled out for 162.
SHOBROOKE Park thumped Cullompton 2nd XI by nine wickets in a game that lasted exactly 32 overs from start to finish.
Jack Grandfield (22) was the only Cully batter to make more than 20 in a meagre total of 70 all out scored in 17.4 overs. Next best on 16 was opener Lee Hooper.
Five wickets fell getting from 11 for none to 12 for five – Howell Brandwood (4-29) largely responsible – and when Hooper got out the running total was 26 for six.
Once Grandfield was out of the way – the second of five wickets for Fergus Campey – the end was just around the corner.
Shobrooke’s only casualty on the way to victory was opener Andy Steer, who was caught behind off Chris McKee for three.
Chris Simpson – 47 not out – and Xavier Warmbrunn (18no) knocked-off the rest early in the 15th over.
Victory keeps Shobrooke second in the table behind unbeaten leaders Sidmouth 2nd XI. Cullompton now occupy the basement flat as North Devon 2nd XI did enough losing to Braunton 2nd XI to creep past them.
BUDLEIGH Salterton 2nd XI batted Ottery St Mary 2nd XI out of the game on the way to 172-run win at the Holt on a D Division East encounter.
Max Jasper (60) and Marc Troman (45) got the ball rolling with a stand of 106 for the first wicket – and there were plenty more runs where those came from
Lee Russell had been and gone by the time he was third out on 175… and Budleigh were not finished yet!
Nick Boult leathered 70 off 58 balls as the total carried on rising. By the time he was out he had added 62 with Harvey Shipton 952) and 58 with Nat James (1) in a final total of 307 for five.
Ollie Brandom was the solitary Ottery bowler to cost less than five an over.
Ottery’s run-hunt started badly – they were 23 for three – but the outlook improved while skipper Matt Brewster (46) and George Prismall (26) stuck around.
Once Prismall departed – the first of four wickets claimed by Joel Murphy (4-35) – Ottery declined from 76 for four to 102 for eight and on to 135 all out. Joe Marley (3-46) hastened Ottery’s demise.
BARNSTAPLE & Pilton rediscovered their winning touch with a 73-run victory over Whimple.
Successive defeats by Ottery St Mary then Sidmouth 2nd XI stalled a flying start to the D East season that had B&P joint top two games in. Beating Whimple hoisted them up to third.
Opener Jamie Poole top scored for B&P with 82 towards a 45-over total of 221 for nine.
Poole, who was seventh out on 189, put on 55 with Jamie Roe and 51 with Jimmer Thomas (28). Colin Simpson (27) and Andrew Fewings (36) topped-up the tally.
Matt Brown took a return catch off his own bowling to dispatch Poole and accumulated four for 52 in the bowling stats.
Whimple faltered from the get-go – they were 46 for five after a going over from Tom Poole (4-24) – but staged a recovery through David Drury (28) and Mike Francois (25).
James Roe hastened an early end to the game with a four-wicket haul that bowled-out Whimple with more than nine overs to go.
NORTH Devon 2nd XI remain winless at the wrong end of the D East standings following a 43-run reversal in the derby clash with Braunton 2nd XI.
But they aren’t on the bottom now as Cullompton 2nd XI fared even worse against Shobrook Park and slipped behind North Devon.
Julian Lambert (68), Andy Paddison (67) and Andrew Norman (54) all complied 50-plus scores in a Braunton total of 256 for seven. Dylan Evans (3-54) was North Devon’s leading wicket taker.
Richard Clarke went in first wicket down for North Devon and was still there at the end of 96 not out.
A stand of 67 with Regina Lilii (25) got North Devon to 152 for five in reply. No one made more than last man Oscar Meech (14) after that as North Devon slowed to 213 all out.
Braunton bowler Charlie Tucker (4-24) cashed in at the end after Paddison (3-25) had kept the middle order under control.
