Sunday’s Servicemaster Clean Devon T20 finals day at Budleigh Salterton has been called off to avoid a clash with the football World Cup final, writes Conrad Sutcliffe.
As Exmouth Town’s Southern Road ground prepares to host the first warm-up game for the Town second team, chairman Stuart Shaw has been singing the praises of the ‘collective’ that look after the playing surface and also the other ‘working groups’ that are so active around the club.
Batting first, Uplyme and Lyme Regis close don an imposing 266-9 after 45 overs. It was opening bowlers Bertie Creer and Andrew Donovan who shared the six wickets that Clyst St George managed to snap up. Donovan claimed four of them at a cost of 47 runs from a full nine overs while Creer sent down eight overs and finished with figures of 2-52.
The Budleigh Bowlers registered their second consecutive win against a touring side in seven days, but it was a close call as they won by one shot 96-95 against St Albans, writes David Roberts.
I can’t believe that we are halfway through the main bowling season and the very unseasonable weather continues to defeat us with most of the greens not playing as usual and even at Phear Park there is an above average number of ‘ditch ‘ woods, writes David Evans.
Exmouth lost for the fourth time in 10 Tolchards Devon League Premier Division outings as they went down by 29 runs to a Heathcoat side that has now taken over at the top of the table.
This coming Saturday (July 14) will see Sidmouth Beach filled with competitors battling the ocean, and each other, in surf lifesaving board and ski racing events in Sidmouth Surf Lifesaving Club’s (SLSC) second Longest Day Ocean Challenge Event.
Madeira greens had become difficult to play in the drought-like conditions of recent weeks, very fast and swinging, so the thunderstorm and heavy rains at the weekend were welcome, particularly as the Open Tournament starts on Sunday, writes Jenny Smith.
In county competitions, Madeira had no less than six ladies teams reach the third round of the Benevolent Triples with two of them going on to reach the section final on July 29, at Madeira, writes Jenny Smith.
A touring team coming from Swansea and Bristol may seem somewhat odd given there are some 70 miles apart, but theirs is a friendship that goes back over many years and touring together is one way of their members staying in touch, writes Jenny Smith.
Budleigh ladies entertained Sidmouth in their latest round of the Over-50s Triples 50’s Triples league and suffered losses on both rinks going down overall 29-45, writes David Roberts.
With a super week of weather for gliding at North Hill, the July course enjoyed flying in blazing sunshine on four of the five days – Wednesday being the only day that the course was rained off.
Feniton went down by 69 runs in their C Division East meeting with Alphington in a game that saw two major contributions from players who are leading lights in South West football.
