Exeter Golf & County Club triumphed over Exeter B and Exmouth B to win the nine-and-under mixed division two title.
The golf club team of Noah Kerley, Billy Turl, George Guy and Sam Wilton-Davies began the competition with a 10-2 victory over Exeter B and they secured the title with an 8-4 win over Exmouth B. With the tie level at 4-4 heading into the vital doubles matches, Kerley and Turl beat Nathaniel Cross and Sam Reay to put them ahead, before Guy and Wilton-Davies secured the win with a 7-1, 7-2 win over Alex James and Henry Sims.
Exeter B secured second-place though with a 10-2 victory over Exmouth B.
Antione Rannou put them ahead as he edged out a classic match 10-12, 7-3, 8-6 against Cross, before Peter Denning came from a set down to beat Reay 2-7, 7-2, 7-3.
Rannou and Denning then teamed up to secure the win with a 7-3, 7-3 doubles win.
Exmouth A took the eight-and-under title after beating Tarka 20-12 in their play-off final on Sunday.
The team of Nathaniel Cross, Connor McCann, Jessica Johnson and Ryan McCann beat the Tarka team that overcome Braunton, Ilfracombe and Westward Ho! in the north group to qualify for the final.
Oscar Davey gave Tarka the lead as he beat Cross 10-5 in the opening rubber, but that was the only time that Tarka had the lead in the tie.
Exmouth battled back to lead 6-2 after the first round of matches and then 10-6, after the second set of rubbers, and 14-10 going into the final round.
With Exmouth still needing to win two matches to secure the title, Cross got them to match-point with his 10-3 victory.
Then Connor McMann secured the win with a 10-2 victory. Johnson then added further gloss to the triumph as she edged the closest match of the weekend 13-11.
Sidmouth's 14-and-under boys were edged out in a match tiebreak by Torquay as they began their Division One Group B campaign.
They got off to a good start as both Oliver Truman and Louis Spalding came from a set down to put Sidmouth in an early lead.
Torquay levelled the match at 2-2, but Truman and Spalding combined to edge a close match 6-7, 7-5, 1-0 to put Sidmouth on the brink of victory.
Torquay fought back again though, winning the other doubles match 6-3, 6-3 to keep their hopes alive.
This meant that a tiebreak was needed to decide the winner and this went the way of the visiting Torquay side.
Having lost to the Exeter Golf and Country Club in their first match, David Lloyd needed a win to keep alive their hopes of winning the 12-and-under boys' division.
They did this by edging out Exwick 7-6 in a deciding match tiebreak.
Scott Coombs gave David Lloyd an early lead as he beat Ethan Murray.
James Fitzpatrick levelled up the scores for Exwick with a 7-5, 6-2 win over Jacob Rowe.
Ryan Daffin then once again put David Lloyd ahead with a comfortable 6-0, 6-2 win over Edward Sowden.
However, Exwick fought back with Sebbie Burrows securing a 6-4, 6-4 win over Matthew Hicks.
With it all to play for in the doubles, Coombs and Rowe beat Murray and Fitzpatrick 6-4, 6-1, but Burrows and Sowden levelled the scores against with a tight 6-4, 5-7, 1-0 win over Daffin and Hicks.
David Lloyd finally secured the win with a 10-8 win in the match tiebreak.
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