OPENER Justin Osborne hit an unbeaten 85 to steer Dartington & Totnes to a five-wicket win over visiting Babbacombe.
Babbacombe, one of the promotion contenders in the D Division West, were all-out for 133 in the 39th over of a 45-over game.
Opener Marcus Thompson made 41 and batted all the way through until he was seventh out with the score on 111.
Nathan Snape made 25 and tail-ender Dom Passmore added 22 (mostly in boundaries) in a final flourish.
Chris O’Reilly, Jono Lloyd and Osborne had two wickets each in a running total of 97 for seven. Chris Cook (3-17) spun out the tail-enders.
The Dartington & Totnes chase was not without problems as it sat at 37 for five following a going-over from Josh Thompson (1-25) and in particular veteran Dave Stubbs (3-23).
That was as good as it got for Babbacombe as Osborne and Cook (25) put on 94 to put the game out of reach.
By the time Cook was dismissed the target was three to win. Game over.
Victory has lifted D&T 27 points clear of the bottom two in the D Division West.
Babbacombe drop back from third to fourth.
PLYMSTOCK 2nd XI rediscovered their winning touch in the D Division thanks to a 60-run victory over lowly Barton.
Leaders Plymstock were narrowly defeated last time out by chasers Plymouth Civil Service & Roborough, who moved within two points of them at the top of the table.
Beating Barton gained Plymstock (177pts) a smidgin of breathing space as Civil (172) dropped a handful of points in their tied game against Ipplepen 2nd XI.
Josh Hocken (47), Jamie Palfreyman (30) and 20 extras were the main contributors to Plymstock’s 40-over total of 152 for eight. Hocken and Palfreyman put on 84 for the third wicket.
Skipper Chris Stubbs (3-26) was Barton’s stand-out wicket taker. Plymstock only got small change out of eight-overs each from Sreejith Sankaranaryanan (1-17) and in particular Callum Crocker (1-12).
Barton were all out for 92 and only got that far thanks to Matt Needham digging in for 39. Adrian Lipton made ten; no one else got more than seven.
There were three wickets each for Syed Ali (3-29) and Ben Whalley (3-10) and two apiece for Tom Baker and Archie Hall.
IPPLEPEN and Plymouth Civil Service & Roborough slugged out that cricketing curiosity the tie in a low-scoring affair at Manadon.
Ipplepen were all out for 94 with runs for Noah Sutton (27) and skipper Adam Peters (26) – and not a lot from anyone else!
Matt Trevorrow (3-16) took the first three wickets to fall – as well as running-out Marcus Green – and Paul Butson (4-21) hastened Pens’ demise lower down.
Civil crept from 39 for two to 47 for six in reply – Jasim Ismail getting his head down for 21 off 41 balls – and were in sniffing distance of victory.
Warrick Green (3-13) gave Pens hope by dismissing Ismail, but skipper Trevorrow (12) and Butson (9no) got the target down to two to win with two wickets left. Then Warrick Green sent back Trevorrow.
Mo Ali, the next man in, was caught first ball having a slogg at Green. Burtson and last man Jamie Higgins took a single to level it. Marcus Green, bowling at the other end from his son, tied the game by trapping Higgins lbw.
IVYBRIDGE 2nd XI were saved from further punishment when rain stopped play in their game against Hatherleigh 2nd XI.
The Bridge were 89 for seven at the time after a going over from Tom Carroll (2-20), Charlie Bingham (2-10) and Luke Westacott (2-21).
Paul Johnson (27) and Chris Greenhouse (20) put on 34 for the fifth wicket in the only stand of note.
THE game between Kenn and Abbotskerswell was rained off before a ball was bowled in anger.
