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Badminton: Alex and Ben Lane help Devon beat Wiltshire

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England junior badminton stars Alex and Ben Lane were in the Devon first team that beat Wiltshire 10-5 at Exmouth. The team also included Queens player Sarah Preece and Betty Blair, Mark Trebble and Jamie Roberton from Cranford. Devon's seconds beat Wiltshire seconds 8-7, with reserves and third team players Joe Davies, Lauren Theedom and Vicky Prouse performing well. Theedom, Davies and Prouse were then in the county third team, along with Suzanne Owens, that lost 9-6 to Somerset seconds. Cranford's Barry Smethurst and Paul Furler were on top form as the Devon's over-60 side beat Dorset 12-0 in the masters' inter-county championships at Torquay. June Goode, from Ottery St Mary, and Jill McCord, from St Leonard's, also played their part. The over-50s beat Dorset 9-3, with Ringswell's Paul Owens and Julia Frost winning their match 21-10, 23-21. The over-40 team struggled against Gloucestershire and lost 9-3, but there was reward late on for Ringswell's Nigel Osborne and Becky Bailey who won 24-22, 21-18 in the mixed doubles. Cranford's Owen Walters won bronze in the doubles and reached the quarter-finals of the under-15s' boys singles at the Gloucester bronze tournament.

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