Champions St. David's rounded out their league programme in style with an emphatic victory over bottom club Devonshire Stars and now set their sights on the Commercial Cricket League's knockout tournament which starts this weekend.

Sunday's match at Garrison Field, in which both teams played two short, was the only one of three make-up fixtures to go ahead _ a huge disappointment to league officials who had reluctantly agreed to push back the start of the knockout by a week to reschedule the games.

Two of the matches failed to go ahead in May because of administrative problems at Police Field while Stars and St. David's were upstaged by a pub match that was already in progress at Garrison Field in June.

West Indian Association and Watford Sports Club agreed last week to share the points from their match while North Village turned up with only four players at Shelly Bay on Sunday and conceded the points to Leg Trappers.

"Blame it on a combination of the Eastern Counties match and soca on Saturday and the powerboat race as well as a soccer practice match on Sunday morning," said spokesman Wendell Lindsay, explaining Village's shortage of players.

St. David's, who finished 28 points clear of runners-up Jamaican Association with Forties five points further back in third place, completed the double over Stars with few alarms.

After dismissing Stars for 146 in the 38th over, St. David's knocked off the runs in 20.2 overs for the loss of only Jeff Pitcher who was bowled for eight by Derek Smith.

Allen Richardson teamed up with Reginald Pitcher to spur St. David's to victory with an unbroken second-wicket partnership of 136, Richardson hitting five fours and two sixes in his unbeaten 53 while Pitcher hammered seven fours and three sixes in his 76 not out.

Earlier Richardson and Pitcher took two wickets apiece while Shea Pitcher snapped up three for 19, Derek Smith (41) and Brian Trott (40) providing the backbone of Stars' total. Skipper Ralph Dill made 15.

Former Cup Match player Ken Pitcher, a left-arm medium pacer who has been instrumental in St. David's romp to their first league title this season, was rested along with James Pace _ even though it left the team two short.

Pace and Pitcher will return to action this weekend when St. David's take on North Village in the first round of the 40-overs-a-side knockout in which bowlers are limited to eight overs each.

St. David's will be bidding to emulate Forties who did the league-knockout double last season.

Leg Trappers are favoured to get past Devonshire Stars, setting up the probability of a St. David's-Trappers semi-final on September 2.

A Caribbean showdown looms with West Indian Association taking on Jamaican Association at Police Field while 11 times winners Forties and Watford, who have won the knockout four times, clash in the other tie at Shelly Bay without several of their key players who are off the island.