Cleveland 235

Social Club 191

For heroes to zeros is how Young Men's Social Club will be remembered after they completed their 50-over season with a 44-run loss to Cleveland County at Devonshire Rec. yesterday.

The champion's fall from grace has been well documented throughout the season with their inability to get the job done in crucial moments of the campaign being their main downfall.

Lack of application yesterday was their reason for failure after a rain delay granted them time to reassert themselves in the match, without much effect.

Having won the toss, Cleveland posted a formidable total of 235 in 45.1 overs.

Dennis Musson Jr. posted a score of 45 to lead the visitors total, while Kevin Hurdle (three for 69) and Kenneth Darrell (three for 15) made inroads in the bowling department.

In reply, Daniel Morgan (55) and Charlie Marshall (55) put on 108 for the fifth wicket after coming to the crease at 28-4.

This was, however, the only batsman to trouble the scoreboard as the side was bowled out for 191.

Musson Jr. took three wickets for 37 runs, while being ably supported by Lamar Talbot who took a hard earned four wickets for 43 runs.

A despondent Marshall refused to comment on his side's fall from grace or whether or not he would be around to lead the team in their attempt to get back into the Premier Division.

Southampton Rangers 252-9

Somerset 133

Social Club were relegated despite Somerset losing to Southampton Rangers yesterday.

The West End club started the day two points ahead of their relegation rivals, but knew that defeat, coupled with a Social Club loss, would send them down because Social Club would have won more games.

And for skipper Jacobi Robinson and his team, the last couple of hours of yesterday afternoon were the most nerve wracking of the season.

By that time they had already been beaten by a Rangers side harbouring title ambitions of their own, and by Dwayne Leverock who played like a man possessed.

Leverock scored an unbeaten 51 as Rangers made all the running in the early part of the game, and then took four for 45 with the ball as Somerset crumbled to 133 all out.

Rangers had gone into the game knowing a win, and a St David's loss could see the title head to Southampton. In the end however all they did was make Somerset's evening rather more fraught than it might have been.