E WEST leaders Abbotskerswell 2nd XI skittled Plympton 2nd XI for 103 and went on to beat them by eight wickets.

Openers Lee Oxenham (28) and Umashankar Gangatkar (26) pointed Plympton towards 58 for one before it all went badly wrong.

Wickets tumbled to Erik Gregersen (3-21), Jay Hussain (2-13) and Cameron Gold (3-27) as Plympton plunged to 77 for eight.

Adam Sellick stuck around long enough to make 17 before he was the last man out to Will Small (2-4).

Nick Guest (21) and Jamie Lock (22) got Abbots up and running towards 80 for two. After that Gregersen (34o) and Hussain (12no) went the rest of the way.

Abbotskerswell hold a 27-point lead at the top of the table over Cornwood 3rd XI, who were comfortable 49-run winners over Teignmouth & Shaldon 2nd XI.

There were runs almost all the way down the Cornwood order from one to eight – only Josh Whiting (9) really missed out – in a total of 282 all out.

Opener Alex Robinson settled in for 39 and was followed by Charlie Farmer (42), Noah Carlisle (32), Ethan Carlisle (64 off 33 balls) and skipper Adam Whiting (20). Best of the partnerships was one of 65 between Farmer and Nathan Carlisle.

Usamah Iqbal (4-33) hogged the bowling limelight for Teignmouth & Shaldon.

Teignmouth & Shaldon recovered from a wobbly start – they were 21 for two after problems with Sam Cumberland (3-47) – to reach 149 for five. Dan O’Connell (31), Gerard Gillen (24) and Iqbal (48) led the way.

The chase tailed off as Evie Privett (4-46) and Ethan Carlisle (2-55) worked through the bottom five.

Scott Baxter (42) gave T&S some hope, but could not do it alone. He was ninth out in a final total of 233.

STOKEINTEIGNHEAD went down by one wicket to Bridestowe & Belstone 2nd XI in a real nail-biting affair.

Stokeinteignhead were all out for 153, which Bridestowe & Belstone overhauled after a struggle.

Only three Stoke batters made double-digit scores: Joe Liyo (31), Jon Robertson (57) and Siby Matthews (29).

Corey Holliday (3-19) took the wickets that sparked a Stokeinteignhead collapse from 124 for four to 144 for six and on to 153 all out.

Bridestowe & Belstone’s reply looked like a disaster zone at 30 for four after a going over from S K Kuriakose (3-29) and Jamie Clinkett (2-34).

Richard Drake (42), Chris Lavis (10) and Holliday (14) stopped the slide for a while. Liyo (2-8), Clinkett and Anuj Tiwari (1-19) provoked another collapse from 97 for six to 117 for nine.

It looked all over when B&B were 117 for nine in reply, but last pair Sreenath Sundan and Roman Alford had other ideas…

Sundan (18no) and Alford (13no) played it safe for seven overs to accumulate the 34 runs needed to win it.

JAMIE Gosling’s six-wicket haul was not enough for Kenn to beat D West leaders Plymouth 2nd XI.

The city side defeated Kenn by 40 runs to stay two points ahead of Chagford (171pts) and Hatherleigh (167) at the top of the D West standings.

Skipper James Toms opened up with 64 for Plymouth and took the running total to 144 for before he got out. Saiesh Reddy (31) and Tom Hughes (39) were Tom’s accomplices.

Hughes and Sam Knapman (24) kept the board ticking round to 228 all out.

Gosling took a wicket with the second ball he bowled – that was Toms – and added five more on the way to figures of six for 32

Kenn’s run hunt was a collaborative effort with numerous chip-ins that got into the 30s.

Ben Chaloner (34) and James Gosling (24) made early runs, which were topped up by Lee Parker (31) and Pete Chislett (30) during a seventh wicket stand worth 66.

Kenn’s bottom four had too much to do to win it. Chislett’s demise at the hands of Aziz Rahmanzi (4-53) was the beginning of the end for the Villagers.

Four wickets went for two runs scored as 186 for six became 188 all out.

TORQUAY & Kingskerswell 2nd XI dropped back into the D West bottom two in the wake of a 202-run hiding by promotion-chasers Hatherleigh 2nd XI.

Henry D’Alberti-Nicholson whacked 61 off 34 balls as Hatherleigh went full steam ahead to 130 for five. That was just the start of T&K’s woes.

Jack Probert (52no) shored up one end while Luke Westacott clattered 70 off 35 deliveries towards a final product of 283 for seven.

Towkir Chowdhury (2-24) suffered the least of the T&K bowlers.

Torquay & Kingskerswell were roughed up by Carl Downes (4-23) while the ball was new and did not fare much better against Cameron Rowlands (3-16) once the shine had gone.

Skipper Vivek Kulkarni was T&K’s top scorer in an all-out total of 81.