League leaders Bailey’s Bay need one more victory to wrap up their first league title since the early 1990s and will be hoping to achieve it this weekend when they travel to Somerset on Sunday to meet Willow Cuts in a top-of-the-table clash.The Eastern Counties champions are 19 points ahead of Cuts but with a maximum 16 points from a win, including bonuses, they have their fate in their own hands as they bid to complete their most successful season since the era of Noel Gibbons, Charlie Marshall, Roger Trott, Ricky Hill, Terry Burgess, Chris Smith, Corey Hill, Stan Smith and Mark Trott.“It was mentioned last night that it was 18 years ago,” said captain Stephen Outerbridge this week. “I only have a brief memory of it, I was still a toddler.”Bay wrap up their league campaign on Sunday while Cuts still have a final match against Southampton Rangers next weekend. Rangers are battling with Cleveland to avoid the second-from-bottom spot which involves a relegation/promotion playoff match. Bottom team Devonshire Rec, who are already relegated, entertain St David’s in Sunday’s other match.Outerbridge has been instrumental in Bay’s climb to the top of the table, leading by example with a division high 445 runs at an average of 89.00 in the 50 overs league. But he is quick to give much of the credit to the team’s coaches like Noel Gibbons, Corey Hill and Irving Romaine and senior players Romaine and Cal Dill who stayed loyal to the club while the team went through a rebuilding process.“This was our main goal, to win the league, everything else was a bonus to tell you the truth,” said Outerbridge. “We’ve been talking about the league for years now and in the last three years we have been close. The last two went down to the second-last or last game, we just couldn’t get over the hurdle. Hopefully we can get over the hurdle this time.”Bailey’s Bay, in their prime, were one of the top teams in local cricket, and while it would be unfair to compare this team to previous Bay teams, they are certainly deserving of what success they are having this season.“Guys are picked based on merit and who are committed to the team fully,” said Outerbridge. “You have to be able to train regularly, you have to perform and everybody has to give their all to the team. There are no individuals and if somebody does something well we are happy for that person, we try to keep the selfishness out of the team.”Another key ingredient to the team’s success this season was the fitness of the team under trainer Larry Marshall, said Outerbridge.“He came in the week before the Belco Cup and we haven’t had any real problems with injuries,” said the captain. “When we started we had a fitness test where everybody had to achieve a certain level and we will try to advance that a little more next year.“We always pride ourselves on playing good cricket, running singles, bowling less wides and batting the 50 overs out. Those kinds of things have made a big difference and separated us from the rest of the teams.”Outerbridge is a contender for the Logic Player of the Year award, but he insists it is more about the team than personal glory.“I am enjoying it and I’m not really worrying about personal rewards, I just want to win the league at the end of the day,” he pointed out. “That would definitely be deserved, nobody can say it was by luck because you have to show some type of consistency throughout the year to be league champions.”Hopefully we can wrap up the league as some senior players are talking about this being their last year so we definitely will be looking to our younger players to continue the success of the club for years to come. I played a season or two with Noel, Ricky and Charlie and when those players left we were left to our own demise, but we have slowly found our way back.“Guys like Irving and ‘Patches’ (Dill) stuck around and made sure the club stayed in good stead. They have been there through thick and thin. Winning the league would definitely be a reward for them.”Bay’s only blemish this season was against First Division leaders Somerset in the Knockout Cup semi-final. Like Bay, Somerset have an excellent youth programme and look set to be rewarded with promotion back to the top division. They lead the First Division by 15 points over Flatts with three rounds remaining. The top team will gain automatic promotion while the second-place team will be involved in the playoff with the second-from-bottom side in the Premier Division.The First Division also sees crucial matches with third place Flatts meeting Somerset at St. David’s in the first of two end-of-season meetings between the two teams. Western Stars, 25 points behind Somerset in second place, meet fourth-placed PHC at St John’s Field. Stars are 19 points ahead of Flatts for the playoff spot but Flatts have a game in hand. Other matches see Somerset Bridge hosting Warwick at White Hill and Social Club entertaining St George’s at PHC Field.n Jacobi Robinson achieved back-to-back Logic First Division Player of the Week awards after his four-wicket haul for Somerset against St George’s kept the west enders on course for promotion. Robinson claimed four for 24 from 7.2 overs as St. George’s were dismissed for 108. Somerset replied with 111-3. In the previous match Robinson took five for 32 against Warwick to win the award. Robinson’s 22 wickets are the most in the First Division.