Haunted by grim memories of their heavy loss in last year's Camel Cup final, Bailey's Bay showed their hunger to redeem themselves by scoring a eight-wicket victory over St. George's in the semifinal of the competition at Devonshire Rec. on Saturday.

It ended up being a humiliating defeat for the east enders who were slight favourites going into the game.

Clarkie Trott came through with major honours by claiming four wickets for just 12 runs off seven overs, with two maidens.

Anthony Braithwaite, Ricky Hill and Charlie Marshall shared the remaining six wickets between them as St. George's could only manage a paltry 108 off 37 overs. Marshall had two for three, Braithwaite two for 16 and Hill two for 33.

Bay's bowlers completed an afternoon of misery for St. George's by 5 p.m.

Only three St. George's batsmen reached double figures, skipper Graham Fox was top scorer with 58 while Lewis Foggo followed with 15 and Ricky Hodsoll 11.

For the rest it was an agonising day at the crease.

The first quality batsman to fail was opener Dexter Smith who could manage just one before he was bowled with the score at 11. His opening partner followed in the next over without an addition to the score and it was left for skipper Fox to add stability.

Fox and Hodsoll put on 27 for the third wicket, and the skipper then added 55 for the fifth wicket stand with Foggo. But once Fox was out at 103 for five St. George's were unable to offer any further resistance and the end was soon to come.

Bailey's Bay lost opener and skipper Chris Smith (one) with 11 runs scored, but Devrae Hollis (62 not out) and Hill (24) wasted no time in scoring runs.

They put on 54 for the second wicket, and then Hollis and Glenn Smith (16 not out) took them to victory with an unbroken third-wicket stand of 45.

Devonshire Rec. 139 Western Stars 140-4 A solid batting display by Andre Manders combined with good bowling performances by spinners Wayne Richardson and Hassan Durham steered champions Western Stars to a six-wicket victory over Devonshire Rec. in Saturday's Camel Cup semifinal at Southampton Oval.

With Richardson snatching four for 26 off 10 overs, including two maidens, and Durham taking three for 43 off eight overs, the inability of the Devonshire batsmen to cope with spin proved to be their undoing.

For awhile Devonshire seemed to be certain to reach a respectable score when they were 49 for the loss of Donald Norford who had scored seven, but this was not to be.

The second-wicket stand of 33 between Lloyd Smith (10) and vice-captain Albert Steede (54) brought the stability Devonshire sought. And when Steede and Anthony Amory (23) added 47 for the third wicket one could not but envision them reaching the double-century mark.

Steede was in ripe form hitting two fours and two sixes.

But sadly for Devonshire this proved to be the last of the decent stands because after Steede and Amory were out the inspired bowlers got right on top.

Within a short span Devonshire's comfortable position was transformed into disaster as they were reeling at 111 for seven with only Darrin Lewis, playing in his first game of the season, offering resistance with solid 21.

Such was the plight of the lower order batsmen that the last five only managed to combine for five runs, four being dismissed for ducks.

Stars, playing with the sureness of champions, reached victory off 36.1 overs with Andre Manders leading the way with 61. Arnold Manders followed with 32 and Jeff Richardson 20 not out.

Stars had an early scare when Treadwell Gibbons (nought) was dismissed with one run scored, but they were able to recover and eventually win by a convincing margin.

Andre Manders struck 11 fours and a six while Arnold stroked four fours and a six.