- South Dartmoor back to winning ways in cups
- Tom Allin tournament raised more than £5,000 for air ambulance
- Taverners kit bag delivered to Sri Lankan youngsters
- Devon trying to contact the class of 56
- Paceman Tshepo running in Virgin London Marathon
- Five Devon women in Western Storm squad for Kia Super League
- Registration night for all ages at Topsham on Monday
- Lots pouring in for auction at Allin Memorial tournament
- Thames Valley Gentlemen Cricket Club
- Bradninch add Argentinian flavour to Devon League
- Ipplepen youth registration night on Friday
- Final call for Groundsmans first seminar this year
- Devon League official tackling London Marathon for charity
- Bovey on familiar territory in Aaron Printers Cup
- Brockman Cup - Cup Kings lie in wait for holders
- Shepherd Trust helps Kingsbridge build for sustainable future
- DCL - Umpire Appointments 2016 (May 7th - July 2nd)
- Long standing records beaten
- North Devon see off Paignton chase
AARON PRINTERS NARRACOTT CUP
BOVEY Tracey 2nd XI carried too much firepower for plucky Ipplepen as they carried off the Aaron Printers Narracott Cup by 19 runs in Friday night’s final at Stoke Gabriel.
Opener Chris Clayton hammered 72, hitting a six and five fours along the way, before he was out in the last of the 20 overs as Bovey totted up 165 for four.
It was a hefty total, but one which looked like being considerably higher for a while as Clayton and Charlie Carter in particular flogged the bowling all round the ground and out of it.
Carter came in at 61 for two after Lewis Hammett had departed lbw for 10 and Dan Green was caught off the second ball delivered by Alan Boon. Luke Tuckett ran in from long-off to take the catch.
A stand of 73 for the third wicket between Carter and Clayton really had the Ipplepen fielders scurrying around – and had search parties checking nearby fields and an abandoned quarry for lost balls.
Carter, who only received 23 deliveries, hit a four and three sixes before going for one big hit too many and getting out to a catch on the extra-cover boundary.
It wasn’t a great night for the Ipplepen bowlers. Paul Thomas, Jamie Watkins and Boon al had a wicket each to add to the run out which accounted for Clayton with four balls to go.
Steve Bowden came in for the real treatment as he went for 15 in his first over and three of five sixes in the Bovey innings were hoisted from his bowling. Even 14 year old Sam Wyatt-Haines got in on the act towards the end, putting his six high over mid-wicket.
Ipplepen gave it their best shot and gave most of the Bovey bowlers a taste of their own medicine by smashing them around.
Crucially, Green (3-0-15-1) and Arron deYoung (3-0-18-2) didn’t get whacked around quite so much as some of the others, such as skipper James Mason (4-0-35-2).
The runs saved by Green and deYoung were the difference between winning and losing.
Sam deFriend opened up with 22 of the first 26 on the board. A brilliant diving catch by Carter off Green sent him back.
Anchorman Dave Harris (33) and Tuckett (52) took Pens past the 100 mark, but were falling behind the asking rate all the time.
Kiwi Jamie Watkins came in when Harris departed caught-and-bowled to deYoung. He tried to get on with it, hitting Mason for two sixes in succession, but was caught on the line by Carter and at 126 for three with three overs to go that was just about that and both sides knew it.
Tuckett and Sam Wakeham both perished in the final couple of overs as Pens’ reply fizzled out on 146 for five.
The Ted Dickinson Trophy, presented to the man of the match, was awarded to Clayton by Stoke Gabriel’s Steve Tolley, who was the cup winning captain himself in 2008.
Bovey Tracey 2nd XI 165-4 (C Clayton 72, L Hammett 18, C Carter 37), Ipplepen 146-5 (S deFriend 22, D Harris 33, L Tuckett 53; J Mason 2-35, S deYoung 2-18). Bovey Tracey bt Ipplepen by 11 runs.