Slow bowler Dwayne (Sluggo) Leverock completed a 13-wicket weekend haul by guiding North Village back to the top of the Commercial Cricket League while holidaying former Barbados wicketkeeper Ricky Hoyte played a starring role for West Indian Association ? with the ball.

Leverock snapped up seven wickets against bottom club Fine Leg Byes 24 hours after demolishing the touring Lloyd?s Cricket Club with figures of six for five for Bermuda but Village were pushed hard before securing a three-wicket victory to re-establish their three-point advantage over Forties at the halfway point of the league season.

Hoyte, who is spending a short holiday on the Island, marked his local debut by wrecking 10-man St. David?s with six for 12 from eight overs of medium pace but skipper Maclaren Lowe replied with an equally devastating performance to claim six for 23 from nine overs before West Indian Association limped to 54 for seven to claim maximum points.

Elsewhere, Jamaican Association consolidated third place by beating Devonshire Stars by 97 runs, despite losing skipper Junior Lindo to a facial injury.

Leverock, who is expected to concentrate now on international duty for Bermuda after being starved of Premier Division cricket following his bungled transfer from Western Stars to Southampton Rangers, claimed seven for 30 from his consecutive 11.5 overs ? his best figures in a topsy-turvy season.

He combined with medium pacer Reggie Benjamin, who took three for 25 from 10 overs, to dismiss Fine Leg Byes for 145 in the 39th over at Sea Breeze Oval after useful contributions came from opener Ishwar Narayanan (44), Simon Lambert (34) and Russell Dey (21).

Leg-break bowler Nick Cardinez (three for 35) and Paul Lindo (two for 38) then gave Village a fright by reducing them to 99 for six after opener Mike Payne made 32 and Mike Levon 22. A seventh wicket fell at 129 and it needed the cool heads of Allen Richardson, who hit an unbeaten 48 at number three, and Leverock (six not out) to steer Village home in 39 overs.

?They gave us a run for our money and made us work for it,? said Village spokesman Wendell Lindsay.

Hoyte?s six-wicket bag, coupled with three for 34 from Junior Watts, sent St. David?s tumbling to 53 all out in 17 overs at Garrison Field.

But St. David?s struck back immediately when Barry Richards was caught off the first ball of the innings from swing bowler Lowe.

Richards? opening partner Patrick Hamlett made 24, but Lowe made WIA pay for shuffling their batting order as they lost six wickets for the addition of 17 runs after reaching 30 for one, including the wicket of Hoyte ? son of former West Indies wicketkeeper David Murray and grandson of legendary Sir Everton Weekes ? who was dismissed for one batting at number five.

Jamaican Association welcomed back all-rounder Glenroy Brown following his stint with Premier club Willow Cuts and he immediately showed his worth by scoring a half century and taking two wickets.

Opener Donovan Livingston stroked six fours in his 67 and Brown, batting at number seven, smashed four sixes and five fours in his 57 to provide the backbone of the Jamaicans? 203 for seven at Shelly Bay.

Skipper Andr? Smith was the pick of the Stars attack with three for 40 from 12 overs while Larry Allen picked up two for 30.

Lindo needed nine stitches for a cut above his right eye after top-edging an attempted hook and being forced to retire hurt on seven but despite the loss of his bowling, Jamaican Association scythed through Stars? batting, dismissing them for 106 in the 36th over.

Only opener Franklyn Simons (39) offered any real resistance to the bowling of Ian Coke (three for 10 from five overs) and Brown and Keneik Wallen, who picked up two wickets apiece.

?Nobody stepped up to the plate with the bat (apart from Franklyn),? said Smith.