Bailey’s Bay, 147 for nine, beat St David’s, 118 all out, by 29 runsBailey’s Bay grabbed the Belco Cup in sensational fashion yesterday as they beat heated rivals St David’s by 29 runs at Lords to hoist the season’s first piece of silverware.There was always going to be a new champion this year after defending champions Southampton Rangers failed to qualify for the tournament.After toiling on the field, exchanging punches worthy of a heavyweight fight, it was the men from Sea Breeze Oval that emerged victorious in the low scoring affair.“We have a lot of respect for St David’s, they are always a challenge and for a moment the game seemed to be getting away from us,” said Bay skipper Stephen Outerbridge.“Clay almost pulled off the heroics but we came out to get a result and it was a great result for us as a club and community to have these bragging rights right now.”St David’s skipper Fiqre Crockwell added: “Congratulations to them for the win but this is only the beginning and we will see each other again. Today they were the better team and got the win but we will be looking forward to our future meetings, including Eastern Counties.”It was the bowling spells of medium pacer Kyle Hodsoll, spinner Rodney Trott and Outerbridge that ultimately decided the match in the dying stages.Winning the toss and sending Bay into bat first, the Islanders made early headway through the early order batsmen who had to rely on the middle and late order to wag the tail.Openers Cal Dill (22) and Coolridge Durham (0) put on 26 for the first wicket, with Durham facing 26 balls without scoring before being caught by Fiqre Crockwell off the bowling of Sammy Robinson.But Bay were struggling when Rudell Pitcher claimed the wicked of Dill and then Azende Furbert for a golden duck.Outerbridge (44) and Trott (18) then led a mini revival for the fourth wicket, putting on 28 to carry the team’s total to 53 before Trott was Robinson’s second wicket of the day, caught this time by OJ Pitcher.Tre Govia was also dismissed without scoring, facing just six balls before Justin Pitcher grabbed his first wicket of the day.Lower order batsmen Ryan Steede (11), Sinclair Smith (9), Hodsoll (4), Dennico Hollis (14) and Burton Outerbridge (11) helped get the side to a respectable total of 147 from their allotted 50 overs, with Hollis and Outerbridge putting on 28 runs for the tenth wicket.Rudell Pitcher, Delyone Borden and Robinson all claimed two wickets each, while Justin Pitcher, Crockwell and Del Hollis grabbed one each.With more than a gettable total in their sights, the Islanders seemed to sleep walk while at the crease as both Borden (9) and Chris Foggo (5) were back in the pavilion with the score on 17.Hodsoll bowled Borden, while Foggo was given lbw off the bowling of Steede. Hodsoll also grabbed the wicket of Crockwell (1) with the score on 21.The match would seemingly be hinged on the partnership between OJ Pitcher (9) and Clay Smith (54), but the pair would only be together for 18 runs, with Pitcher being caught on the long on boundary as he tried to up the pace of the scoring.Shea Pitcher (19) strolled to the crease and did what none of his predecessors had done before him by occupying the wicket for a sustained period of time.Pitcher and Smith put on 50 runs for the fifth wicket to get the side to 89 for four.The youngster would be the next to be removed in a spell from both Trott and skipper Outerbridge. Pitcher was caught and bowled by Trott, followed by Justin Pitcher was dismissed without scoring.Robinson quickly followed Pitcher back to the dressing room in the same over as he was yet another victim of Trott’s.The pressure would fall on Smith’s shoulders, and he went about bringing his team back into the match, although he was lucky to be at the crease at the end having been dropped on the long off boundary.That would be his only gift to Bay, as he produced a near prefect example of clean hitting, particularly taking a liking to the bowling of Burton Outerbridge, hitting the pacer for two sixes and four in one over.Outerbridge then trapped Rudell Pitcher lbw at 95, leaving Smith to finish the chase with youngster Don DeSilva.The pressure was on DeSilva, who did well with an umbrella camped around him waiting for a half chance and held his end of the deal, rotating strike and not getting tempted by the floaters sent down to him.Smith was putting the bowling to sword until he as undone by a slower delivery from Hodsoll that shattered his wickets to end the contest in 34.3 overs.Hodsoll ended with four wickets, while Trott claimed three.“We knew that St David’s have a very good and deep batting line up and we needed to stay focused on the task at hand,” said Trott. “We were hoping to have a few more runs on the board but we can’t complain as we stuck to the task and got the result.“It has been a great opening start to our season, we have stuck together and played for one another in defending this total we put up shows that there is rewards for hard work and discipline.“Between myself and Stephen we had a very good period of bowling, and in my over the two wickets that fell had to be taken quickly in order to stay within ourselves.“We had belief that we could overcome their strength and we are champions because of our belief.”OJ Pitcher, who returned for the weekend from his overseas studies, was subdued after the defeat but sent out congratulations to his Eastern Counties rivals.“It is difficult to accept given we have dedicated this season to those who have passed away and but today they deserved to win so full credit to them, we have to look to Counties and try to get exact revenge,” said Pitcher.“This is cricket but we were confident of getting to the total as long as we remained stuck to the task, the game is played on the field and congratulations to them and we are anxious to play them again.”