Allan Douglas arrived just in time from church to save Cleveland with a dashing century, which proved the decider as the home team defeated previously unbeaten Southampton by 86 runs at Sea Breeze Oval on Sunday.

After speaking at a morning church service and forced to bat at number nine, Douglas was inspirational at the crease, slamming 11 fours and six sixes in carrying Cleveland from 94 for seven to 252, when he was bowled by Quinton Burch.

Douglas dominated stands of 60 with Johnny Richardson (27), 51 with Del Hollis (10) and 47 with last man Diallo Sharrieff (six not out).

Burch claimed three wickets for 27 off 10 overs, assisted by Ryan Belboda with two for 55.

Rangers saw their hopes fade quickly as they stumbled to 36 for three before Ricky Brangman (59) and Kwame Tucker (29) stabilised the innings with a stand of 50 for the fourth wicket.

Spinner Hollis led the way with figures of three for 11, followed by Sharrieff with three for 19 and Grant Smith, two for 38.

St. George's 251-7 Somerset 204 St. George's served notice to their west-end rivals and the rest of the league when they cruised to their fourth straight league victory at Somerset CC.

Winning the toss and electing to bat, the east-enders found themselves in difficulty at 26 for three with frontline batsmen Eugene Foggo (nought), Dexter Smith (13) and Lewis Foggo (eight) all back in the pavilion.

However, this concern proved unwarranted as Clay Smith and Ricky Hodsoll combined in a 109-run fourth-wicket stand with Smith scoring 72 and Hodsoll notching his first century of the season, 111 not out.

Somerset paid dearly for dropping Hodsoll before he reached 50 and compounded this when they allowed 81 runs to be scored off the last 10 overs.

Seldom-used bowler Davon Wade was the star in that department for Somerset, picking up three wickets, while Stephen Brown collected two.

While Somerset were gallant in their effort as Winston Reid top-scored with 41 runs and Wade (22) and James Swan (20) chipped in with useful knocks, they were always up against the scoring rate of more than five runs per over.

Eugene Foggo was the pick of the St. George's bowlers with four for 37.

Warwick 71 Bailey's Bay 72-3 Clarkie Trott destroyed Warwick by taking six wickets for 14 runs to lead Bailey's Bay to an easy seven-wicket victory at Southampton Oval. With Trott as sharp as every, Warwick struggled to 71 thanks mainly to a knock of 23 by their top scorer Trent Lightbourne.

Terry Burgess was the other leading bowler for Bay with two for 24. Bailey's Bay lost opener Ricky Hill (five) with 12 runs scored, and there was some concern when their skipper Chris Smith (14) departed with the score 37.

Although the wicket of Glenn Smith (six) fell eight runs later, stalwarts Charlie Marshall (21) and Noel Gibbons (19) prevented any further disaster with an undefeated fourth-wicket stand of 27.

Hoyte Zuill took two for 21 for Warwick.

Flatts 233 Social Club 103 Not unexpectedly, Social Club slumped to their fourth consecutive defeat, when they bowed to Flatts at St. John's field a day after being massacred by Western Stars in the first round of the Central Counties Cup at the same venue.

Troy Dean took advantage of the good strip to top-score for the visitors with 47, while others making useful contributions were Derek Wright (29), Aaron Woolridge (29), Troy Bean (22) and Kevin Hurdle (36).

Desmond Smith bowled a tidy line and length to grab two wickets for just 22 runs from his quota of 10 overs, which was a far cry from the rest of an impotent attack.

Dwayne Adams displayed his multidimensional talents in scorching 44 runs before becoming the first of seven Gerald Sims victims.

Smith added 23, but the rest of the batsmen appeared bewildered by the spin of Sims (seven for 22).

Hamilton Parish 132 St. David's 134-0 St. David's rose from the ashes of a losing start to pick up their first win of the season at Wellington Oval as 16-year-old Sammy Robinson claimed seven for 37 at Wellington Oval before Allen Richardson and Lionel Cann both hit half-centuries to complete the win.

Robinson, with his gentle medium-pacers, ran through the Hamilton Parish batting after getting his team's second wicket -- Quinn Outerbrifge for 25 -- to make the score 50 for two. He then followed up with the wicket of Irving Burgess without any addition to the score before getting Dennis Trott, Corey Hill and Chris Caisey as the home team slumped to 77 for seven.

Mike Burgess (25) was the joint high scorer for Parish who were dismissed in just 31.1 overs. Reginald Pitcher took two for six in seven balls.

Pitcher retired hurt on 11 when the score was 25 but Cann carried on as he and Richardson raced to 134 in 95 minutes with Richardson scoring 52 not out and Cann an unbeaten 58 -- thanks to six lives. He was dropped on six and 19 and twice each on 28 and 42.