Devonshire 127 St. George's 128-3 St. George's moved ahead of Nationals and into fourth place with this surprisingly easy win at Devonshire Rec. on the day the home team relinquished their league title.

Wendell Smith's decision to put Rec. in to bat first proved a good one as the 1990 league champions needed just 40.4 overs to get through Devonshire's batting. Spinner David Adams took his wicket haul for the season to 52 with his five for 29 from 12.4 overs.

Adams was wicketless after nine overs but grabbed three wickets (Erskine Smith, Leon Place and Toriano Henry) in his 10th over and two more in the four deliveries of his 13th over. Pacer Kenny Phillips supported with three for 33 and Eugene Foggo two for 38.

Erskine (Choe) Smith, opening the batting with Roger Trott, hit 34 in 105 minutes after being dropped on 13 while Donald Norford was high man with 38.

He was dropped on 19. Trott, with 11, was the only other Rec. batsman in double figures as the home team were missing the likes of Terry Fray, Lloyd Morrison and James Pace.

Even though Troy Hall failed to score in his 46-ball, 46-minute innings, he still made a valuable contribution as he and his captain added 34 before the first wicket fell in the 12th over. But when Smith was run out for 31 six runs later in the 16th over, Rec. had reason to feel that victory was still in sight.

A third-wicket stand of 43 between Graham Fox (29) and Eugene Foggo (22 not out) in 67 minutes slowly steered St. George's to calmer waters before Foggo and Lewis Foggo (28 not out) added the remaining 45 in an unbeaten fourth-wicket stand to hand Rec. their third loss in the league.

Captain Anthony Amory and Mark Trott got the two wickets to fall to the bowlers, Amory giving up 54 runs in 13 overs while Trott had an economical 10-over spell, which yielded just 17 runs. He also had three maidens.

Bailey's Bay 100 Cleveland 102-5 It is just as well Western Stars got the win they needed to wrap up the league title because on this showing at Sea Breeze Oval, challengers Bailey's Bay looked anything but championship contenders.

Bay's lack of application in their batting could have been put down to too much celebrating following their win over Stars in the knockout final the day before, or that they had already accepted that Stars were going to win their last two matches.

In truth, 100 was never going to be enough for a Cleveland team desperate for a top-four finish so as to assure themselves of a spot in next year's Camel Cup.

Glenn Smith and his captain Chris Smith were joint top scorers for Bay with 24 as both tried to repair early damage done by the Cleveland attack bowlers, Corey Lowe and Diallo Sharrieff.

Cal Dill and Anthony Braithwaite were removed by Lowe and Sharrieff in the first and second overs of the match with just two runs on the board, leaving Glenn Smith and Charlie Marshall to steady things briefly with a third-wicket stand of 33.

But in the space of four overs the match was firmly back in Cleveland's favour when, in successive overs, Lowe bowled Smith and Sharrieff had Noel Gibbons caught by Peter Philpott for his second straight league duck since returning from England. Two overs later Sharrieff got the wicket of Charlie Marshall to make it 45 for five.

Bay captain Chris Smith, who relegated himself to number six in the order, led another recovery with a stand of 28 for the sixth wicket with Jermaine Outerbridge (14) and though Dennis Pilgrim added 17 in the tail-end the Bay total, which came in just 22.1 overs, was too small to defend.

Still, they made Cleveland work hard for their runs as Grant Smith was run out when the score was eight and then when Philpott and Carlton Smith were trapped lbw by Clarkie Trott and Noel Gibbons to make it 33 for three this match still looked likely to go either way.

Allan Douglas had other ideas as he hit a brisk 23 to add 35 with opener Aaron Adams who was still there. After Douglas and Del Hollis were removed in the space of five runs Adams (29 not out) and Sharrieff (15 not out) put Bay out of their misery with an unbeaten sixth-wicket stand of 29.

Trott took two for 28 and Gibbons two for 37.

Somerset 125 Willow Cuts 128-3 Willow Cuts moved back into second place after they demolished neighbours Somerset by seven wickets in this west-end derby at Somerset Cricket Club.

The home side were skittled out for a mere 125 runs as four batsmen failed to score with only three, Perry Maybury (34), skipper Andre Manders (38) and Damon Thompson (34) weighing in with useful knocks.

Cuts' pace duo of Rodney Fubler and Vance Gilbert tore through the top half of the batting order and Richard Basden, Kevin Fubler and Joseph Matthews mopped up the rest as Somerset performed pitifully on a fine batting strip -- as Cuts later proved.

It got no better when it came time to take the field as, after enjoying some initial success with the dismissal of openers Dexter Basden and Anthony Fubler, they were subjected to an onslaught by Kevin Fubler (41 not out) and Vivian Simons (30) that accounted for 51 runs. Then Fubler teamed with Richard Basden to carry their side past the winning target.

Maybury managed two for 30 from 13 overs and veteran James Swan, surprisingly opening the attack, claimed one wicket.

Hamilton Parish 147 Flatts 141 Hamilton Parish and Flatts, both suffering through miserable seasons managed to deliver a bit of excitement, as they engaged in a nail-biter at Wellington Oval with the former emerging victorious by a mere six runs.

Parish's Ricky Hill, who collected seven wickets on the day, engineered a dramatic final collapse to take his side from the brink of defeat to win.

Flatts stood well within reach of the set target of 147 at 139 for seven when Hill proceeded to blast out the tail for the addition of only two runs. A disheartened Rodney Woolridge, who scored 73 not out, could only watch as a procession partners came and went.

Woolridge hit 11 fours and a lone six in his splendid innings and participated in a lucrative partnership with John Carey that produced 76 runs.

But aside from that duo no one else came close to reaching double figures as Hill returned his best figures of the season. Terry Burgess collected two wickets from his 16 overs and Quinn Outerbridge claimed the remaining wicket to fall.

Earlier, Parish had reached their total on account of knocks of 23 and 32 by Hill and Burgess. Dennis Trott (12), Outerbridge (15), Jahmiko Marshall (17) and Wally Manders (13) all chipped in with useful scores.

Brandon Woolridge's 15-plus overs of medium-pace reaped five wickets, while Floyd Smith and MacDonald Woolridge each garnered two apiece.

The loss dropped Flatts to 14th in the overall standings with only Social Club and Warwick trailing. Meanwhile Parish remain locked in 11th place, just playing out the string.

Som. Bridge 254-6 dec.

Social Club 116-6 Gladwin Ingham hammered 72 and team-mate Brian Gibbons struck 69 but Somerset Bridge still were unable to prevent Social Club from holding on for a draw in this game at White Hill field.

Bridge reached one of their highest totals of the season thanks to fine batting support by Ingham and Gibbons who put on 97 during a fourth-wicket partnership, taking the score from three for 80 to 177 when Gibbons was out.

Others among the runs for the home team were opener Robin Swan 34, C.Brown 23 not out and skipper David Jones 18.

Cecil Tucker had two for 54 and Desmond Smith two for 87.

Jermaine Exell led Social Club in reply with 32 not out while skipper Webster Mills was undefeated with 22. Opener Cal Grimes also made 22 while Tucker hit 14.

Jones was the leading bowler for Bridge with three for 20 off nine overs, including two maidens.

Warwick 28-4 dec.

Police 29-0 Police easily defeated a six-man Warwick team by 10 wickets at Southampton Oval in a game that lasted for just 107 minutes. Play started at 11.30 a.m.

and ended at 12.47 p.m.

However, although Police were able to coast to a comfortable victory they were denied two bonus points after Warwick, who were put in to bat, astonishingly declared their innings closed at 28 for the loss of four wickets. For their efforts Police finished with 14 points after 16 points appeared to be there for the taking.

Warwick's innings lasted for only nine overs with Kirk Simmons the high scorer on seven. Mark Tucker was not out on six while Theodore Morgan was undefeated with five when they declared.

Police used only two bowlers, Ossie Hinds took two for 17 off five overs and Jermaine Tucker had two for 11 off four overs.

Police reached victory off three overs with Dennis Archer not out on 17 and Tyrone Smith undefeated on six.

St. David's look like losing yet another match because of an unprepared wicket after Southampton showed up at Lord's to find the wicket not ready for play, forcing the match to be called off.