Promoted Looe travelled to the neatly-presented St Germans Road ground on a bright spring afternoon.

Asked to bat, they set about their task with energetic enthusiasm. A Callington team fielding many tender colts and 'occasionals' maintained some kind of grip but air balls dropping into space and loose deliveries helped the visitors' cause.

Debbie Penprase, former West player and England trialist, reaped a career-best harvest of wickets as the Looe innings gained momentum with the arrival of the later middle order but not even she or the brilliant Rus Holloway, with a run out from the boundary and two sensational catches, could prevent a workmanlike total being registered.

Steady bowling, nagging with just the right balance of accuracy and veiled menace, enticed Callington into some early-season sloppiness and they collapsed to 29-6. Thereafter, the home innings could only lurch along to its final ignominy and Looe departed with confidence reinforced. Several young Callington players nevertheless had reasons for pride and stuck to their tasks well.

Scores - Looe 189 (S Price-Hughes 12, A Walker 22, K Levitt 29, Jo Hoskin 10, N Alan 14, P Newnham 64, D Penprase 7-60. Callington 73 (S Rider 18, I Pemberton 20; A Joyce 4-12; N Allen 2-18; D Sharp 2-8).

Looe (19 pts) beat Callington (6) by 116 runs.