reached the semi-finals of the Knockout Cup on Saturday.

Bay, Police and St. George's each enjoyed convincing victories while St.

David's squeezed out a 10-run triumph over Flatts, the top team in the First Division.

The semi-finals will be played on August 30.

Southampton 126 Bailey's Bay 130-2 Three bowlers combined to take nine wickets between them to lead Bay to this emphatic eight-wicket win at Southampton Oval.

A week after blasting 271 off Bay's bowlers, scoring runs proved to be a much tougher task for the home side as Clarkie Trott, teenager Jimmy West and veteran Ricky Hill dominated the batsmen with some tight bowling.

Trott took three for 13 from seven overs, West had three for 18 off just 2.3 overs while Hill took three for 25 off 10 overs.

There was only one period of stability during Southampton's innings when skipper Olin Jones (23) and opener Kwame Tucker (74) added 56 for the second wicket. Tucker was dropped four times.

After dismissing Southampton in 34.3 overs, the defending champions reached their winning target off 27 overs with skipper Charlie Marshall striking 48 not out and Cal Dill finishing undefeated on 42.

Gary Williams snatched both Bay wickets for 25 off eight overs.

Warwick 119 Police 121-4 Rohan Moore grabbed three for 20 and Tyrone Smith, Ferdinand Thorne and Peter Philpott shared the other six wickets as Police defeated Warwick by six wickets at Police Field.

Warwick batted the entire 50 overs but always found the going tough against a formidable bowling attack led by Moore who bowled eight tight overs.

Smith followed with two for 11 off five overs, Thorne took two for 24 off seven overs and Philpott two for 28 off 10 overs.

Except for a partnership between skipper Allan Wilkinson (28) and Kevin Tucker (27) that put on 45 for the seventh wicket, Warwick's batsmen struggled.

Police needed just 25.2 overs to reach victory with Daniel Reece leading the chase with a sound 31. Andrew Rollins, Nyon Steede and Thorne each contributed 19 apiece with Steede and Thorne undefeated.

Wilkinson led his team in bowling with two for 31 off 9.2 overs.

St. George's 250-8 Western Stars 125 St. George's continued their dominance over Western Stars, scoring a comfortable 125-run win at Wellington Oval to make it three victories over Stars already this season.

Mark Ray was high man with 52 after helping the home team recover from 44-2 in the ninth over.

St. George's were scoring at faster than five runs an over, a rate which only slowed up when Arnold Manders came on and bowled 10 tight overs for 24 runs including five maidens.

Ray and Lionel Cann (47) put on 66 for the fourth wicket in taking the score from 80 to 146 before Manders broke the stand by trapping Cann lbw. Other contributions for St. George's came from opener Wendell Smith 26, captain Clay Smith 28 and tailender Troy Hall with 24 not out.

Gary Brangman claimed three for 33 off 10 overs and Treadwell Gibbons two for 52.

Stars, who showed up with nine men and had to call on Anthony (Toe) Wilson and Taurean Manders, the 12-year-old son of Andre Manders, to make up the 11, suffered a poor start when they lost the wicket of Gibbons in the 12th over and then Cleon Scotland and Andre Manders to be 33-3.

With Albert Steede abroad, Stars pinned their last hopes on captain Arnold Manders and Ricky Brangman. Brangman hit a patient 35 while Manders was run out for 11.

Opener Hasan Durham scored 20 and Gary Brangman produced 18 in the tailend but by then it was too late as Stars' required run rate rose to 10 an over in the last 15 overs.

Ricky Hodsoll claimed three for 20 and Herbie Bascome and Lionel Cann two apiece off 10 overs.

Flatts suffer first defeat From Page 31 St. David's 197 Flatts 187 Despite having to dig into their reserves after four of their most promising youngsters -- Chris Foggo, O.J.Pitcher, Landro Minors and Shannon Raynor -- opted to play with their junior team, St. David's were still strong enough to hand Flatts their first loss of the season.

Flatts enjoyed some early success when they had St. David's reeling at 60-4 after 15 overs. But a stand of 66 for the fifth wicket between Allen Richardson and Del Hollis, and one worth 54 for the sixth wicket between Hollis and Kameron Fox, turned their innings around.

Hollis led the batting with a dashing 70 which included six sixes and five fours while Richardson contributed 37 and opener Graham Fox 32.

Philip Burgess claimed three late wickets to finish with three for 20 in 4.2 overs as St. David's slumped from 180-5 to 197 all out. Gershon Gibbons supported with two for four from three overs of left arm medium pace while Kevin Hurdle and Derek Wright each took two wickets.

Despite an opening stand of 45 between Millard Bean (20) and Gibbons (26), Flatts were soon in trouble at 89-5. They recovered to 186-8 before losing the key wicket of player-coach Dwayne Leverock (39) 12 runs from their target.

Graham Fox finished with three for 32 off nine overs, Del Hollis two for 24 and Kameron Fox two for 23.