Cricket- County Division Four (East)
Looe v Colan
Electing to bat first, Looe had to overcome the shock of losing Peter Nance with just one run on the board. They were indebted to Jonathan Nance and Adam Nicholas for a 59-run stand for the second wicket against a tight sustained opening spell by Justin Wright and Anthony Rundle. Nicholas hit 21 and Nance 34, his side's highest individual score. However, all of the rest of the Looe middle order made valuable contributions- Phil Shepley scored 27 and Robin Trethowan made 30 and then Tim Shepley hit an excellent undefeated 33 enabled the home side to post a respectable 185. The Colan bowlers shared the wickets, spinners D Killick and J Phillips took 2-69 and 2-28 respectively, Wright 2-40 and Rundle 1-35.
Colan were pinned down by Looe's opening attack of the pace of Simon Farley and the guile of Mike Pengelly's left and spin only 30 runs coming in the first 20 overs for the loss of two wickets. Anthony Rundle, who batted well for his 39, and Justin Phillips, 19, shared a 52-run stand but otherwise only M Rundle reached double figures, returning 2-20 from his 11 over spell while Mike Pengelly must have thought the gods to be against him for though his 16 overs overs cost only 24 he remained wicketless. Robin Trethowan was again successful, taking 3-38 and Jonathan Nance claimed the other two for 28.
Scores - Looe 185-7 (J Nance 34; R Trethowan 30; T Shepley 33 n.o.; P Shepley 27; A Nicholas 21; Extras 25; Bowling - J Wright 16-6-40-2; A Rundle 11-2-35-1; D Killick 16-2-69-2; J Phillips 5-0-28-2). Colan 99 (A Rundle 39; J Phillips 19; J Wright 11; M Rundle 10; Extras 20; Bowling - S farley 11-4-20-2; M Pengelly 16-6-24-0; R Trethowan 13-1-38-3; J Nance 8-0-28-2).
Looe beat Colan by 63 runs.