Watford Sports Club waltzed to the Commercial Cricket League double by walloping Jamaican Association by 98 runs in Sunday's knockout final while a Devonshire Rec. XI survived a stunning collapse to beat a Commercial Select XI by 51 runs in an inaugural challenge match.

Left-hander Terry Ward's sparkling unbeaten 66 -- his third consecutive half century in the knockout -- and a four-wicket haul by Terence Corday engineered league champions Watford's emphatic 98-run win before a big crowd at Sea Breeze Oval.

"Our guys really wanted to win -- they were pumped up,'' said jubilant Watford skipper Terry Corday after his side, who took their catches well, clinched the coveted league-knockout double achieved last season by West Indian Association.

At Police Field former Bermuda opening batsman Gladstone (Sad) Brown spared his team's blushes with a dashing half century to guide Rec. to 173 for nine after WIA's leg-break bowler Randy Liverpool claimed a career-best six for 18 as Rec. slumped from 86 for two to 116 for eight. The Commercial side replied with 122.

Watford's openers David DeSilva (13) and Clyde Best, who hit two sixes before being run out for 30, put on 38 in 12 overs and then Ward took control to steer the west enders to 191 for six in their allotted 40 overs, stroking five fours and two sixes.

Jamaican Association's reply began disastrously when Michael Campbell fell to the first ball of the innings -- bowled middle stump by Terence Corday -- and they lost wickets steadily to be dimissed for a paltry 93 in the 33rd over, Ian Coke top-scoring with 21.

Corday, who finished with four for 26, followed up by removing Arthur Dublin and skipper Norman Godwin cheaply and the writing was on the wall for the Jamaican Association when David Gibbs was caught on the boundary for a duck.

David DeSilva and Blake West chipped in with two wickets apiece while skipper Corday's younger son Trevor wrapped up the victory by having George Fisher -- earlier his side's most successful bowler with two for 30 -- caught for 18 after edging a ball onto his head.

"We got peppered,'' admitted Jamaican Association's team spokesman Glenmore Barrett. "We batted poorly, the guys were too tense and didn't perform the way we expected. But there was a sense of achievement in reaching the final.'' Skipper Gordon Campbell was deprived of Watford and Jamaican Association players but the Commercial Select gave a good account of themselves in the 40 overs game, the first of what is to become an annual fixture.

Devonshire lost skipper Dexter Smith for 11 -- bowled by Police fast bowler Andy McCulloch in his first game for seven weeks after being sidelined through injury -- at 35 but Jamaica-bound national team batsman Anthony Amory, who went on to hit a half-century, and Leon Place scored freely to lift the total to 83 for one from 15 overs.

A run later Place was run out for 17 by a direct hit from Ronald Gibbons before the introduction of 43-year-old Liverpool transformed the innings -- four of his six victims were smartly stumped by Forties' wicketkeeper Rohaan Simons -- to put the Commercial Select back into contention.

Liverpool struck with his third ball, having Cleon Scotland stranded up the pitch for a first-ball duck, and in his third over also had Peter Philpott and Amory stumped. Amory's well-played 51 included five fours.

Liverpool continued to bamboozle Devonshire, having Winston Trott Jr. stumped, Wilfred Hodson caught in the deep by McCulloch and Harold Minors lbw. The bowler was denied a seventh wicket in his final over when Gibbons dropped Gerald Simons at slip.

But 52-year-old Brown, batting at number seven, masterminded the recovery as he dominated a ninth-wicket stand of 49, hitting five fours and three sixes -- one off Lucozade Leg Trappers' medium pacer Dave Wright landed on the tennis courts -- before being caught and bowled by West End Warriors' Vernon Eve for 58.

The Commercial Select were pinned down by a mixture of pace and spin -- left-arm slow bowler Hodson took two for 26 -- and another former Bermuda stalwart, Winston (Coe) Trott, put the game firmly out of Commercial's reach by scything through the middle order and snapping up four for 11 from five overs before Wright and McCulloch added an entertaining 29 for the last wicket.

TERRY WARD -- his third consecutive half century helped Watford Sports Club lift the Commercial Cricket League's knockout trophy.