PROMOTION-chasing Ashburton made light work of beating relegation-haunted Chudleigh by 129 runs.

A consistent effort from the Ashburton top four underpinned a team total of 222 all out.

Between them Steve Edmonds (26), George Yabsley (20) and Lloyd White (46) and did most of the work getting to 158 for four.

Ash Berry (41) went steady as she goes all the way to the penultimate over. Andy Robinson and Kam Singh collected two wickets each for Chudleigh. Rob Clarke (2-22) offered little to go after.

Chudleigh plummeted to 31 for five in reply as Charlie Towers (3-20) and Jack Warren (2-23) got into the top order. Aditya More (2-8) kept the heat on.

Harrison Windsor-Horne, in at 24 for three, was still there when Chudleigh were bowled out for 93.

Chudleigh (162pts) have a relegation cruncher this Saturday against Paignton 2nd XI (150), who are immediately below them in the second relegation berth.

CORNWOOD 2nd XI did not hang around cruising to a six-wicket win over South Devon that keeps them out in front in the C Division West.

South Devon were bowled out for 94 – Jason Hall finishing them off with four for 14 – which Cornwood knocked-off in fewer than 20 overs.

South Devon only got as far as 94 all out courtesy of the 31 extras Cornwood coughed up. Keeper-batter Fin Humphries (15) booked the best of a sorry set of scores.

Will Sharp (3-20) and Adam Goodliffe (2-18) got South Devon into trouble before Hall put them out of their misery.

The run chase was largely a formality once Cornwood had seen off South Devon’s respected new-ball pairing of Jonny Martin and Mali Marshall.

After Noah Carlisle was third out on 70, Matt Butterworth (11no) and captain Robin Dart (14no) joined up the dots.

HARRISON Linnitt and Seamus McKenna scored centuries of differing styles for Teignmouth & Shaldon in an 89-run win over Ipplepen 2nd XI.

Opener Linnitt made a largely conventional century off 118 balls – 17 fours and a six – towards T&S’s total of 367 for seven. He was part of stands that went from nought to 281 for five, including one of 136 with Morgan Couch (38) and another 94 with McKenna.

McKenna’s method was more forceful! He made 101 not out from 53 balls faced, 17 of which were dispatched to the boundary.

Pens deployed veteran Jeff Heath as a partnership breaker late on. McKenna and Adam Dowsing whacked him for 30 from a seven-ball over. Twelve runs off Freddie Harvey’s final over took McKenna to three figures. No Ipplepen bowler operated at below six runs an over.

Ipplepen replied with 279 for nine which, nine times out of ten, would be a potentially winning total.

Pens got as far as they did thanks to 80 down the order from Marcus Green, which helped rescue them from being 90 for six. Last man Brad Aldridge made a claim for a higher berth in the batting order this Saturday with 35 not out during a tenth-wicket pairing with Green worth 80 runs.

Liam Gardner (1-23) was the most frugal of T&S’s nine-over bowlers. There were two wickets each for Couch and the dad-and-lad combination of Tshepoa and Khaya Legodi.