ASHBURTON won for the first time this season when they won by four wickets against Clyst St George to move off the bottom of the table.

Ashburton and Bovey Tracey 2nd XI were both below Clyst going into the latest round of fixtures. Not any longer. But with only five points between all three teams, the situation remains fluid.

Ridouan Asselman (40) made patient runs in Clyst’s top three and shared a 75-run stand with Andrew Donovan (47) for the fourth wicket. Bertie Creer (33) was the last man out on a total of 210.

Chris Yeo (3-36) and Matt Yeo (2-35) dominated the Ashburton bowling stats.

Only opener George Yabsley, who came and went for seven, missed the bus in Ashburton’s run chase.

Steve Edmonds (23), Jack Brown and Lloyd White with 31 each and finally Nick Martin (43no) and Chris McKee (17no) sauntered home with more than seven overs to go.

Winning captain White said: “Our bowlers were superb throughout, maintaining excellent discipline from start to finish.

“With the bat, it was a familiar story at times, with too many of us getting starts before falling to false shots. However, we know we bat deep and backed ourselves to keep chipping away at the target.”

Other results in the B Division saw Braunton beat Bideford/Littleham/Westward Ho! by a single wicket, Stoke Gabriel enjoy a sizable home success over Plymstock, Bovey Tracey 2nd XI fall to Plympton and Seaton smack Barton by 150 runs.

Elsewhere, three wickets each for David Kingham and Ben Major helped bowl Ottery St Mary to a 77-run win away to Teignmouth & Shaldon in C Division East.

Rhys Norman hit 125 not out for Ottery as they scorched along to 283 for four.

Todd Ballman’s run of form for T&S continued with 94. He took a ton off Exeter seven days earlier.

What Ballman did not have was enough back-up as only Harrison Linnitt got as far as 20 among the other batters, T&S posting a reply of 206.