Sports in Seaton

IT's been a great week for Lyme Regis Bowling Club. Firstly, two teams of mixed fours, playing for the Tony Allcock trophy, won their area final against Gillingham and now go on to play Somerset's best in the next round.

The two teams were: Alan and Trevor Allman with Pam and Allan Weech  and Barry and Nicky Driscoll With Pauline Knight and Paul Moffitt. Paul Moffitt's rink managed to win by 12 shots whilst Allan Weech's rink went down by two, giving the team a 10-shot win overall, a truly great team effort.

Axminster Town Reserves, promoted to the Devon and Exeter Premier Division, will kick-off their season under new manager Jamie Barfoot with a home fixture on Wednesday, August 25 (kick-off 7.30 pm) against Beer Albion, who are expected to be one of front-runners.

This will be followed by another home game on Saturday, August 28 (kick-off 3pm) against Ottery St Mary 2nds.

With Uplyme and Lyme Regis and Seaton having finished the first East Devon Bash T20 competition in first and second place, the Uplyme Muffin Men were favourites to beat the Seaton Pirates in the final, held at the King George V playing field on Sunday.

But in an exciting match, Uplyme failed by just eight runs after the Pirates had posted 149-4, having been put into bat. Having lost three early wickets, captain Matt Hewer (25), Joel Seward (60) and Tristan Wakley (40) were instrumental in setting a challenging target for Uplyme to lift the cup.

A DIVISION

Seaton Cricket Club's 1st X1 captain Ben Morgan has written himself into cricketing history.

By Dave Bruce

Last weekend was a big one for the Men's Section at Axe Cliff Golf Club with the re-arranged Club Championship.

The Rotary Club of Axminster are always keen to support both the youth and the not so young in the local community and the opportunity to help Axminster Town's Under 14 cricket team with new kit is a good example.

Team manager Mark Burrough expressed his thanks to the Rotary Club for the shirts and felt it built a greater feeling of belonging to a team and enhanced team spirit.

Axminster Ladies made a trip to North Devon to kick- start their official pre-season friendlies with a win, beating Barnstaple Town 4-2.

Player of the match Poppy Cloke opened up the game with the first goal, followed by new signing, Lorna Button, on her debut match to make it 2-0.A

A DIVISION

SEATON, who slipped to second from bottom in the table after losing by nine wickets to Barton, are looking destined for B Division cricket next season.

Axminster Town's pre-season form has continued to impress new manager Dan Prettejohn wit a comfortable 3-1 win over former rivals Lyme Regis and a 2-1at Chard Town this week. This coming Saturday they travel to Budleigh Salterton.

The Tigers' goals in the game against Lyme came from Charlie Wilson, Marcus Fanson (penalty) and Jamie Girton.

Seaton Town have withdrawn from the Devon and Exeter League Premier Division.

The club will continue to run two sides but Nub News Sport understands that Seaton have lost a number of senior players for the coming season and will drop down to Devon and Exeter Division 3.