Following two superb wins in the NE Premier League, the firsts were dismissed for a poor 141.
Skipper Graeme Hallam (6), Iain Purdy a rare duck and Moneeb Iqbal (3) were early losses before Grant Lindsay and Barry Stewart began to recover some gro
und.
Stewart then fell for 10 but young Andrew Smith moved the score on steadily in an important lasting partnership with Lindsay that at least brought some respectability to the innings.
Lindsay scored 43 and Smith 36 but then the remainder of the innings failed to wag.
The exception was James Sander with a valiant undefeated 26.
In their reply, Blaydon lost only five wickets with Stewart 2-17, Lindsay 1-38, Iqbal 1-47, and Jamie Coates 1-9.
Two early successes for Stewart gave rise to hope. However, this was short lived as Gale went on to make 79, before being run out, supported mainly by Drake 24, bowled by Iqbal.
Twenty extras helped Blaydon to their comfortable target and an early finish.
Meanwhile back at home, Tynemouth's second team maintained their excellent start to the season with an emphatic 108 run win against Blaydon seconds.
Skipper Ian Stewart won the toss and elected to bat.
Tony Lion and Scott Thornton got the innings off to a solid start adding 41.
Jon Hymers and David Hayward added an important half century partnership before Hymers fell for 28.
Hayward made a quick 48 off 52 balls, including two straight sixes.
Matthew Brown played shots all around the ground bringing up a well deserved half century just before the declaration of 205-5.
In reply, Blaydon struggled against the new ball attack of David Hymers and Russell Perry and were 24-2.
Read and Nicholson put together a decent partnership of 42 in 14 overs and at that point the game looked to be drifting towards a draw.
The drinks interval seemed to invigorate the Tynemouth attack as Tony Lion and Steve Mordue soon ripped the heart out of the Blaydon middle order.
Young David Hymers was in no mood to let Blaydon off the hook as he wrapped up the innings with three late wickets to complete with the impressive figures of 4-33 as Blaydon capitulated to 96 all out.
Tynemouth's third team enjoyed the sunshine at Churchill Playing Fields in the Northumberland League against local rivals Monkseaton who elected to bat.
Openers Chris Beever and R Anderson made a steady start with 25 runs on the board after ten overs.
Ed Snelders got the important breakthrough by bowling R Anderson for 17.
The next bowling change saw the score almost come to a halt as first Phil Morse then Don Catley turned in a series of maidens.
Catley claimed the prize wicket of Chris Beever.
He was soon followed by S Cooper caught at point by Marsh off Catley.
Young Josh Koen then tore the heart out of the Monkseaton batting with a superb 5-1-9-4.
Monkseaton were 144-8 at 50 overs with Tynemouth confident.
In reply, Morse and Josh Koen started cautiously but put on 44 from the first ten when Koen was out for 16.
Jon Wilson joined Morse and the pair took the game away from Monkseaton.
Morse was run out for a superb 72 while Wilson went on to make 38.
With only a handful of runs the target, John Harrison and Chad Koen finished the job for a seven wicket victory.
• Elsewhere, in the NTSL 'C' Division, Tynemouth Thursday 3rd XI took on Newcastle at Preston Avenue.
Tynemouth scored a very disappointing 58-5 from their allotted 20 overs.
Despite a brave bowling performance, Newcastle won the match comfortably by six wickets with four overs to spare.
• South North U15 50 all out; Tynemouth U15 52-1 (Ben Richardson 28 not out).
• Tynemouth U15 147-1; Benwell and Walbottle U15 75-5.
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