St. George's stayed on course for a league and KO Cup double in arrogant fashion with a 10-wicket thrashing of demoralised Southampton Rangers at Devonshire Rec. field on Saturday.

Southampton made the fatal error of showing up for a semifinal with only nine players and they would pay dearly after losing their second wicket at 50 in the 11th over.

Olin Jones was chief responsible for the good start as he played confidently off the back foot against Kenny Phillips and Greg Foggo.

He and Keith Wainwright carried the score to 29 in the seventh over when Phillips sent Wainwright's off stump flying for the breakthrough.

Stevie Lightbourne adopted his regular no-nonsense approach but, when on 15, he got a thick outside edge whilew driving at Ricky Hodsoll and Greg Foggo held the catch on the extra cover boundary.

That signalled the beginning of the end for Rangers though there were useful stands of 29 between Mike Brangman and Quinton Burch and then 44 between Brangman and his brother and skipper Ricky.

Jones met the same fate as Wainwright, his off stump sent a few yards back by Phillips a ball after playing an exquisite cut for four to take his total to 20.

Burch had looked settled before drawing a wide Hodsoll delivery onto his stumps when his individual score was 16. Then the Brangman brothers grafted for 10 overs in an attempt to put up a defendable total.

But Mike lost his head and was stumped by Dean Minors for 27 after taking a swipe at Eugene Foggo.

Clevie Wade's stay was brief, 10 minutes to be exact. He was bowled by Foggo for one, also taking a wild heave.

Ricky Brangman carried his bat unbeaten for 38, which included just one six, as the remaining batsmen, Lyndon Raynor and Ryan Belboda, both failed to get off the mark. Eugene Foggo finished with three for 27 from 10 overs while Phillips claimed two for 26 from seven and Hodsoll two for 48.

Batting was made to look easy by the St. George's opening duo of Wendell Smith and Dexter Smith.

Neither batsman gave a chance and Rangers did not help their cause by conceding 24 extras.

Wendell Smith finished on 65 and Dexter Smith 60 to end a recent string of low scores. Wendell hit 11 fours and a six while Dexter connected for 10 fours and two sixes.

Devonshire Rec. 166 St. David's 89 Devonshire Rec. earned a place in the knockout final this weekend when 166 runs proved too steep a target for a depleted St. David's team at Wellington Oval.

Anthony Amory led the Devonshire batting with 30 runs after coming in at number three following the fall of the first wicket on 41. Terry Fray (24) and Albert Steede (15) had given the home team a steady start with six boundaries in 33 minutes.

However, in the space of four minutes both openers were gone, with Steede being run out and then Fray falling to Allen Richardson who had come on as first change. Amory scored his 30 runs from three fours and a six in 63 minutes with good support from Donald Norford who added 27 in a stand of 45 between the two for the fourth wicket. Anthony Edwards and Bruce Perinchief hit 20 and 12 respectively in the tail-end before being undone by the spin of Oliver Pitcher and captain James Pace.

Pitcher led the St. David's bowling with three for 38 as slow bowling reaped the rewards for the east-enders. Richardson claimed two for 20, Pace two for 17 and teenager Kameron Fox two for 12.

After openers Eddie Lamb and Shea Pitcher put on 18 for the first wicket in 37 minutes the floodgates opened up with three further wickets going down in the space of 22 minutes to make it 20 for four. The experienced Oliver Pitcher tried to halt the collapse with a patient 31 in 102 minutes and it was not soon after his departure on 85 for five that the match ended.

James Pace, with 15, and Richardson (10) were the other St. David's batsmen in double figures. Lamb opened both the batting and bowling for St. David's.

Erskine Smith was the best bowler for Rec. with four for 33 while Anthony Edwards had impressive figures of three for eight from 10 overs with six maidens. Bruce Perinchief got the other two wickets, for 21 runs from nine overs.

UNBEATEN -- Wendell Smith, left, and Dexter Smith made 65 and 60 respectively in an unbroken opening partnership that produced the margin of victory in Saturday's KO Cup semifinal against Southampton.