Yeo brings up ton with match-winning six | Three wickets for Butler (pictured) in Budleigh win

Sean Butler - three wickets for Budleigh in the win over Clyst Hydon

WHIMPLE maintained their 100 per cent record at the top of the D Division East with a 73-run win over Clyst St George 2nd XI.

A 45-over total of 313 for seven was constructed around a stand between David Drury (113no) and David Culshaw (51no), who built on what Luke Phillips (33), Will Greig (40) and Nathan Bright (31) left behind.

Katie Donovan with four wickets for 46 runs from nine overs was easily Clyst’s most effective bowler Nathan Wells (1-38 off nine) offered little to hit.

Clyst were faced with scoring at seven an over to win the game – and went hard at first with Whimple bowlers Freddie Fenner and Oli Whitton both bleeding runs.

Wells (37) and Ewan Crang (55) tucked in with relish, but the run rate slowed once the former was dismissed by Brad Smith.

Despite a solid 40 from skipper Dan Takle, and 37 not out for Georgia Read, St George slowed to 220 for seven and were all out for 240 with three overs to go.

Fenner (2-58), Smith (2-42) and Bright (2-40) claimed the early and middle-order wickets, which left Dave Drury (3-13) to mop up the stragglers for maximum points.

ED Yeo belted an unbeaten century for North Devon 2ndXI in a runaway eight-wicket win over Feniton.

Yeo, a former 1stXI captain at the Instow club, was exactly 100 not out as North Devon hurtled past the Feniton total of 212 with more than 15 overs to spare.

Yeo won the game in some style by launching Feniton’s Matt Davies for six to bring up his hundred at the same time!Ed Yeo - reached a ton with the winning sx

Along the way to his century Yeo hit nine fours and five sixes. He shared stands of 75 with fellow opener Richard Screech (41), another of 52 with Jack Hockin (21) and an unbroken stand of 90 with Fred King (34) to see it through.

Feniton’s total of 212 all out owed a lot to fourth-wicket pair Jack Tucker (61) and Jonny Pyle (60), who put on 132 for the fourth wicket.

King and Hockin claimed two wickets each, but the stand-out stats for North Devon belonged to Richard Ayre, another ex-1stXI captain, who bagged five for 23.

CLYST Hydon suffered a 73-run loss when they visited D East promotion hopefuls Budleigh Salterton 2ndXI.

Budleigh accelerated away from 56 for three, when they lost opener Neil Murrin for 29, to reach 215 for nine.

Harvey Shipton (32) and Donovan Robinson (57) were the main run getters for Budleigh.

James Billington (2-43) and Jeff Sanders (2-53) were Hydon’s leading wicket-takers. Alex Newman, Will Thornton and Ian Sutton were the most miserly bowlers.

Hydon were 93 for two in rely when they lost Keith Herselman for what proved to be the top score of 38.

Louis Marks made 19 and Billington 27, but that was as good as it got for Hydon as they subsided to 142 all out.

Sean Butler returned for a second spell to finish with three wickets for 37 runs and there were two each for Lee Russell and Adam Jones.

SHOBROOKE Park remain third in the D East standings following a 106-run win over bottom side Sampford Peverell & Tiverton.

Lee Hooper – top scorer for SP&TOpener Chris Simpson just missed out on a century for Shobrooke in their total of 274 for six as he was dismissed for 97.

A stand of 145 for the fourth wicket with Jermain Harding (78) formed the backbone of the Shobrooke total. Veteran left-hander Richard Pyle chipped in with 25.

Rob McManus (2-18) was SP&T’s only multiple wicket taker. Joe Parkinson’s nine overs only cost 15 runs and included the scalp of Neil Branton.

Joe Harris then claimed six SP&T wickets for 47 runs to help send the home side careering to 168 all out.

Chris Ford’s wily spinners took three more wickets as SP&T faded away. 

Top scorer for SP&T was Lee Hooper – fourth out for 39 – followed by skipper Lewis Hough (26).

BARNSTAPLE & Pilton pulled-off an unlikely one-wicket win over Chardstock to carry on climbing the D East table.

Chardstock got as far as 234 for eight in their 45 overs – James Pyman (87) and Rob Hutchings (49) the primary run getters – then reduced their hosts to 140 for eight in reply.

Matt Newton (47) and Andrew Fewings (56) had put on 76 for B&P before the Pymans got involved.

James Pyman (2-35) removed Newton then dad Richard took three wickets in a hurry as B&P dipped to 117 for seven. When Fewings fell to the same bowler, B&P were 140 for eight.

Nine times out of ten that would have been game over, but B&P’s nine and ten had other ideas.

Tom Poole (64) and George Elnaugh (35no) embarked on a stand that put in 92 for the ninth wicket. When Poole was bowled by Steve Allsopp, the target was three to win with 17 balls to get them in.

Elnaugh cut the deficit with a single down to two, which B&P got in wides.

That’s two wins on the spin now for B&P, who are up to sixth in the D East table.