close this weekend with the completion of the Knock-Out Cup competition.

Hurricane or no, covers or not, all will come to an end at Sea Breeze Oval most likely some time on Sunday afternoon.

In what has been one of the busiest seasons in recent memory, Stars seek to bring down the curtain in the same manner they stepped on the stage and opened it...winning.

Another on Sunday would make it 24 and a clean run of the board for the year for the St. John's Road club, and none would say that they had not earned all the praise, accolades and, most of all, trophies received.

Their final opponent will be decided by Saturday's square-off between Bailey's Bay and Southampton in the semi-final that was abandoned a week ago due to a sticky wicket at Wellington Oval.

Pity the fact that the match-worn winner will have to face well rested Stars.

And that with Albert Steede returning to form with a masterful century and possibly harbouring something to prove to those selectors that left him out of the national side.