New Eastern Counties champions Bailey's Bay completed their best weekend of the season as they followed up their triumph over St. David's by avenging last month's knockout cup loss to Southampton with a resounding 136-run win at Sea Breeze Oval yesterday.

A solid opening stand of 116 in 20 overs between Ricky Hill and captain Chris Smith (32) got Bay off to an excellent start after they had won the toss and decided to bat first.

Hill, in one of his best knocks of the season, scored 68 of his 79 runs from boundaries (eight fours and six sixes) before he was first out on 116.

And though Rangers grabbed two quick wickets to make it 139 for three, Bay got back in control with a stand of 84 for the fourth wicket between Charlie Marshall and Noel Gibbons to take them past the 200 mark and in sight of a massive total.

Marshall stroked 66, with fours and two sixes, while Gibbons hit 38 in support. Bay lost their last six wickets in the final six overs of their innings as they tried to boost their scoring, but by then Rangers knew they were looking at a run rate of over five an over.

Openers Quinton Burch and Ryan Belboda claimed three for 51 and four for 69 respectively while Lyndon Raynor took three for 37 with his spinners.

Rangers were missing Keith Wainwright, Michael Brangman, Clevie Wade and Janeiro Tucker and it showed in their batting, which lacked depth and experience.

Gibbons, opening the bowling with Clarkie Trott in the absence of Anthony Braithwaite, got the first Rangers wicket when he bowled Kwame Tucker for 13 when the score was 19.

And after new batsman Darren Burchall dominated a second-wicket stand of 38 with Wayne Raynor, off-spinner Damon Edwards broke through with the first of his five wickets which yielded 38 runs from 10 overs.

The youngster was treated harshly by Burchall in his first over as he went for successive sixes over mid-wicket. However, Burchall went for one big shot too many and skied the next delivery to Clarkie Trott at wide long-on to fall for 23. He hit two sixes and two fours.

From his most expensive over, Edwards came back with renewed confidence and took three of the next four wickets to pin Rangers on the ropes at 80 for six.

Edwards and Ricky Hill, operating at the other end, each bowled their 10 overs unchanged and took seven wickets between them to rip through the heart of the Rangers batting.

Bay did not need to call on Terry Burgess who played but did not bowl. Hill, with his medium-pacers, claimed two for 30 as Ryan Belboda offered some resistance in a lost cause with 30 in the Rangers tail-end before he was last out at the end of the 34th over.

Somerset 195 Cleveland 200-3 Wayne Smith and Grant Smith both hit half-centuries to lead visitors Cleveland to a comfortable seven-wicket triumph over Somerset yesterday.

Without captain and key bowler Perry Maybury, the Somerset total of 195 proved difficult to defend after Wayne Smith and his captain Peter Philpott had given Cleveland a good start with an opening stand of 86.

Smith hit seven fours and a six in his top knock of 53 before he was first to go, bowled by James Swan behind his legs just after reaching his 50.

Philpott departed 10 runs later, lbw to Winston Reid for 34 and after that Grant Smith (52 not out) and Curtis Jackson (37) eliminated any hopes of a Somerset upset with a third-wicket stand of 56.

Smith hit four sixes and three fours while Jackson strokes four fours and a six in his supporting knock. Allan Douglas finished on 15 not out.

Charles Swan, James Swan and Reid all took one wicket for the home team.

Earlier, opener Kevin Saunders was high man for Somerset with 34 while his opening partner Dwight Basden and tail-ender Reid Jones scored 23 and 25 respectively.

First-change Del Hollis led the Cleveland bowling with six for 46 from nine overs while Philpott supported with three for 34 from 10 overs in what was a good day for the Cleveland spinners.

Willow Cuts 232-5 Social Club 93 Sound batting by brothers Dexter and Richard Basden combined with good bowling performances from Vivian Simons and Rodney Fubler helped Willow Cuts to a 139-run victory over Social Club at St. John's field.

Skipper Dexter Basden hammered 91 and younger brother Richard stroked 68 to highlight Willow Cuts' batting performance. Dexter, who batted for just under two hours, struck eight fours and five sixes.

Also among the runs was opener Trevor Dickinson with 25 and Joseph Matthews finished with 16 not out. Cecil Tucker took two for 37.

Simons and Fubler tore the heart out of the batting with eight wickets between them. Simons had five for 18 off just 7.5 overs and three maidens while Fubler had three for nine off nine overs and three maidens.

Fubler snatched the first two wickets for just six runs before a third-wicket stand of 44 between opener Cecil Tucker (31) and Leonard Gilks (10) added stability. But the bowlers soon got back on top although Francis Grenardo and Earlston Wolfe stayed for a while with Grenardo scoring 15 and Wolfe 10.

PHC 72 Somerset Bridge 73-3 Gary Crofton and Francis Richardson shared nine wickets between them in leading Somerset Bridge to a seven-wicket victory over PHC at White Hill field.

Crofton grabbed five for 23 and Richardson four for 21 and were responsible in dismissing their opponents for a paltry total in just 25.1 overs. The other wicket was taken by Brian Gibbons.

PHC, who were struggling at six for the loss of four wickets, were stabilised for a brief period by Cal Waldron who was their top batsman with 22.

The only other player reaching double figures was Mike Dill with 17. The pair added 21 for the eighth wicket, taking the total from 30 for seven to 51 when Waldron was out lbw to Richardson.

Bridge required 28 overs to reach their winning target with skipper Robin Swan top scorer with 20 not out while Brian Gibbons followed with an undefeated 17.

Also among the runs were O'Neil Virgil with 16 and Stanley Simmons with 13.

Warwick 30 Devonshire 31-0 Short-handed Devonshire Rec. still proved too strong for lowly Warwick at Southampton Oval, needing just 3.5 overs to reach their winning target of 31.

Warwick, after being sent in to bat, found themselves in trouble from the outset against nine-man Devonshire as John Ray and Mark Trott did the damage in the absence of Anthony Edwards.

The pair shared the new ball and bowled their 10 overs unchanged, by which time Warwick had slumped to 15 for nine from 20 overs when Erskine Smith and Mark Ray came on to take up the attack.

Warwick were five for five and then 15 for nine before their biggest stand of 15 for the last wicket between captain Hoyt Zuill (eight) and Steven Breamer (seven) carried them to 30 before the latter was lbw to Smith.

Devonshire openers Donald Norford and Albert Steede needed just 23 deliveries in 16 minutes to reach their target with Steede unbeaten on 21 and Norford eight.

Hamilton Parish 119 Police 123-4 David Greenidge scored 37 not out and skiper Dennis Archer scored 27 to lead Police to a six-wicket victory over a seven-man Hamilton Parish team at Police field.

Despite appearing short the visitors got some good batting from skipper Irving Burgess who was top scorer with 44 and opener Michael Burgess who followed with 34. Roger Blades snatched three wickets and Donovan Livingston had two.

Police had a solid start to their innings when skipper Archer and Dwayne Leverock put on 58, Leverock scoring 21. Although four wickets fell with the score 104, Greenidge and Devonish Small, who was not out on four, got the remaining runs for Police to win easily.

RICKY HILL -- Stroke-filled 79.