Somerset Cricket Club have clinched the First Division championship and promotion to the top tier next season.The West Enders secured the title after Bermuda Cricket Board (BCB) announced that the final round of First Division matches have been cancelled due to Hurricane Leslie.Local cricket’s governing body has already announced that there will be no more rescheduling with all teams affected by this weekend’s cancellation to receive five points for a No Result.Somerset completed the 2012 First Division campaign with 154 points, some 14 points ahead of nearest rivals Western Stars (140), to secure the sole automatic promotion spot up for grabs.Runners up Stars will now play Premier cellar dwellers Cleveland County in a relegation/promotion play-off match.Flatts, whose own promotion hopes were cruelly dashed by this weekend’s cancellation, finished third.Reflecting upon his team’s successful promotion bid, Somerset skipper Jekon Edness said: “It feels good to be going back to the Premier Division. We tried to gain promotion last season but things didn’t work out which is fine because it just made us hungrier to get the job done this year.“To win the First Division we had to stick to the basics and be consistent and that’s what we were as far league cricket was concerned. And we are just glad we actually completed our mission, which was to get promotion by any means necessary.”Edness attributed his team’s success to every player pulling their own weight and playing in harmony.“The key to our success was team work and players performing when we needed them to,” he said. “We had a lot of key performers throughout the course of the season like Ricky Hoyte, Jordan DeSilva, Jacobi (Robinson), Jermaine Warner and our youngsters stepped up as well. It was a good overall effort that got us up.”Edness said clinching the First Division championship in the manner his team did didn’t take any gloss from the feat.“It doesn’t really matter at all because we just wanted to come up,” he said. “We can’t control the weather.”Somerset have already proven they can compete in the top flight next season after defeating Premier, Belco Cup and Twenty20 champions Bailey’s Bay in this season’s Knockout Cup. It was Bay’s only loss of the season in all competitions.“That victory over Bay was very good for us because it let teams know that even though we were in the First Division this year we are actually a good cricket team,” Edness said. “Moving forward we just want to carry that into next year and hopefully we can have our full strength team throughout the course of the season because we have a lot of youngsters away in school that don’t come back to the end of May or early June. Hopefully we can pick up a few extra players during the off season to make up for the loss of the youngsters in the early part of the season.”This summer has been an exceptional one for Edness who also guided Somerset to a ten-wicket thrashing of St George’s in Cup Match at Somerset Cricket Club.“To win Cup Match was definitely a big goal of mine this summer, especially having come so close last year,” he said. ‘I’m glad we actually won and the people of Somerset and Somerset fans are very excited about that.“I still hear about that everyday so that just let’s me know how much it means to them. It was definitely an honour to captain the team in Cup Match and actually win this year.”