Devon Cricket Board - Sidmouth keep tight grip on Devon Cup

LIAM Lewis hit a century as Sidmouth made a winning start to their defence of the Devon Senior Cup with a 97-run win over Bovey Tracey on the Fortfield.
Lewis clattered along to 119 not out from 107 balls with 12 fours and five sixes in a Sidmouth total of 240 for eight in 40 overs.
Along the way there were stands of 58 with Matt Cooke (41), 61 with Luke Bess (26) and exactly 50 with Peter Randerson, who clubbed 27 off 17 balls.
Pick of the bowlers by a distance was Bovey’s Neil Hancock with four for 34 against his former club.
Bovey were all out for 143 in reply with more than five overs to go – Harrison Jones nipping out the middle order on his way to three for 35.
Matt Golding (25) and Hancock (32) were the leading run getters for Bovey Tracey, who included father-and-son pair Richard and Sam Wyatt-Haines in their side.
Waiting in the quarter-finals for Sidmouth are Torquay, who won by 45 runs at Bradninch.
Mickey Wilkinson hit a top score of 94 for Torquay in a sizeable 40-over tally of 262 for five.
Early pressure from Ross Acton and Paul Nott (2-32) had Torquay labouring at 40 for three before Wilkinson and Matt Thompson got them going.
Wilkinson batted through to the end, striking nine fours and a six during 99 balls faced.
Thompson, who shared a stand of 132 with Wilkinson, made 65 the hard way with just four boundaries.
Justin Yau chipped in with 27 at the end in a seven-over stand of 77 with Wilkinson.
Will Squire (2-69) made up for some harsh treatment by snaring Thompson and Yau.
Bradninch will be wondering where it all went wrong for them after getting away to a cracking start through Dan Hardy (21), Jackson Thompson (41) and Tim Piper (64) as they reached 71 for two in the 15th over.
Jack Bradbury (4-30) got among the middle order and once Matt Jarrett (23) was run out at 100 for four the asking rate started to climb.
Bradninch stuck at it to the bitter end, but a three-wicket spell from Yau (3-32) killed them off and Torquay dismissed them for 217 with seven balls to go.

CORNWOOD beat Chudleigh by two runs in a thriller at Kate Brook that went right down to the wire.
Asif Raza helped himself to 101 off 93 balls with six four and eight sixes as Cornwood made 211 all out.
Raza was fifth out on 194 to Sean Day (2-38) having put on 74 with Ryan Rickard (36) and 84 with skipper for the day Robin Dart (27).
Jon Martin (3-29) was the best of Chudleigh’s bowlers.
Cornwood were more than rattled as Chudleigh reached 107 without loss in the 25th over – Ed Foreman (64) and Matt Heather (41) leading the way.
After Heather and Foreman went in the space of an over, Day (34) kept the board ticking over.
There were two wickets each for Matt Skeemer (2-26) and Butterworth (2-35) as Cornwood kept Chudleigh to 209 for seven in reply to win by two runs.
A target of 13 to win from the last of the 40 proved just too much for Martin and Sean Newland.
Cornwood will be at home to Exeter in the last eight.

HEATHCOAT just fell short on the chase in a Devon Cup nail-biter with Paignton when 15 to win off the last over was just too many.
Paignton recovered from losing openers George Yates and Stephen George cheaply to make 222 for seven.
The big knocks came from George Benton (28), Chris Kelmere (45), Fanie de Villiers (53), skipper Connor Bryan (36) and Ollie Higgs with a bright and breezy 32 at the end.
Higgs and Bryan put on 64 in eight overs at the end, which proved crucial in the final totting up.
Both fell to Steffan Jones, who had three for 22 from his eight overs.
Heathcoat got to 95 for two in the 14th over with Mitch Baker (57) and Justin Williams getting stuck in.
Yates (3-41) and Rob Shergold (3-24) bowled Paignton into a stronger position as Heathoat dipped to 136 for six.
Ned Menheneott (39) and Jason Parr (37) revived Heathcoat fortunes with a stand of 49 which left 37 to win off the last five overs and 15 from the last.
Paul Elliott (20no) had a go but Heathcoat closed short on 220 for eight.
Paignton will play Plymouth in the next round. The city side were handed a walkover by Brixham, who could not raise a side.

HATHERLEIGH felt the full force of Exmouth’s five-star batting line-up as they crashed out of the Devon Cup by 148 runs.
Sandy Allen was an early casualty to Charlie Neilson, but there was little or no respite for Hatherleigh after that as Gary Chappell, David Lye, Seb Benton and Lawrence Greenway piled up the runs.
Lye (53) and Chappell hoisted 136 for the second wicket, Benton (21) joined Chappell to add another 40 for the third then Greenway (22) chipped in as well as he and Chappell too the score up to 269 for four with 10 overs to go.
A final total of 328 for seven was always going to be way too many for a depleted Hatherleigh side, who wheeled out veterans Richard Tidball and Nick Rogers (2-43) to get through their overs.
Gareth Tidball – son of Richard - made 37 and Rogers 31 not out at the end as Hatherleigh were bowled out for 180.
Man of the match Chappell had three for 15 while there were two wickets each for George Greenway, Jamie Tapper and Benton.
It’s Plymstock next for Exmouth after their disposed of Plympton by 44 runs in the derby clash at Harewood House.
Mark Abbott cracked an unbeaten 134 as Plymstock amassed 264 for five in their 40 overs.
An opening stand of 131 with Ollie Mulbery and another of 89 with Dan Robotham (47) paved the way for Plymstock to rack-up the runs.
Plympton were left to regret some slipshod fielding as they dropped Abbott four times.
Plus point for Plympton were a useful eight overs from teenage debutant Jamie Lee, who only went for 22 runs.
Plympton needed a start to have any sort of chance and that was supplied by stand-in captain Andy Walter (47) and Christian Bunney (65), who pout in 109 in the first 20 overs.
Seb Jordan (2-37) dispatched Walter then claimed Ross Farrer first ball as Plympton stumbled.
Bunney bated in and with Tim George (21) and Wes Hartslief (21) chipping in a final total of 219 was achieved,
Pick of the bowlers by a distance for Plymstock was Morgan Parkinson with four for 20.
“It was a great deck to bat on and I think we made good use of it,” said Plymstock vice-captain James Nicholls.
“Something we learned over the weekend is the key to big scores is for one batsman to stay there and the rest to bat round him. It worked against Abbotskerswell in the league and it worked against Plympton.
“We’ve got Plympton again on Friday in the T20 –and again on Saturday in the league. It is going to be an interesting week…”
Walter, standing in for the absent Jeremy Williams, said: “We had a lot missing and put out a young side that acquitted itself well.
“It was good to see Jamie Lee bowling so tidily and also for Chris Bunney to get a score.
“Chris has had a few 20s this season coming in at three, but nothing above. Hopefully this will be the kickstart he needed.

EXETER cruised into the last eight of the Devon KO Cup with an ultimately comfortable win over Barton by 59 runs.
Blake Reed picked up where he left off against Cornwood in the league on Saturday afternoon with a top score of 52 to add to his century.
Reed and Andy Curtis (30) put on 64 then there were chip-ins from Rob Holman (49), Alex Bosomworth (27) and Rob Fern (22no) as Exeter got to 224 for seven.
Tom Drake bowled tidily to pick up two Exeter wickets for 35 runs and there were two more for Damon Calland (2-38).
Barton were all out for 165 in reply, only batting with 10 due to an injury to Chris Penner, who tweaked a hamstring.
Husain Badat (27), Calland (30) and quickfire Andy Hele (24) all got in and got out without going on to make the big score Barton needed to be competitive.
Even so at 150 for five Barton were still in it, until Adam Gribble and Billy Searle intervened.
Gribble strangled one end for figures of three for 16 and Searle took two for 27 as Barton declined to 165 all out.
Exeter will face Cornwood in the last four.