St. George's 126 Bailey's Bay 61 And they said Bailey's Bay couldn't be beaten! In Saturday's Camel Cup final at St. David's, Bay were not only defeated but defeated convincingly as St. George's romped to a 65-run victory in a low-scoring match.

What had promised to be yet another easy win for the league's most formidable team turned into the most astonishing result of the season as Bay crashed to a tournament-low 61 runs in just 22.2 overs.

Significant to the outcome of the match was the internal fighting that went on inside the Bailey's Bay dressing room prior to the start, with the bulk of the team insisting that substitute Dennis Pilgrim be brought in to replace wicketkeeper Jason Anderson.

The players ultimately got their way and Anderson, out of the team for several weeks, was denied the opportunity to play against his former club.

Though the pre-match problems didn't immediately effect Bay as they picked up the wicket of Ryan Steede in the first over and had St. George's in early trouble at 35-4 after only 12 overs, something was evidently not right when the league's highest scoring team began their run chase.

"If you start off wrong you end up wrong,'' said captain Charlie Marshall afterwards. "When you're too complacent, problems happen.'' Marshall said he knew nothing of the dissension within the team until prior to the start of the match. He had only returned to the Island from abroad on Friday.

"I didn't know anything until this morning when I got to the field and one of my players approached me and said we're going to have a team meeting because players didn't want to play if Jason was in the team. They said he hadn't been training enough and 90 percent of the players said they were not going to play if Jason was selected.'' Added Marshall: "We had a problem before the game, we didn't warm up. We started wrong and ended wrong. I'm very disappointed, as a captain walking into a changing room and finding there is a problem.

"I felt I should have been informed beforehand. I could have dealt with it when I got back on the Island yesterday (Friday) afternoon.'' It wasn't until an opening stand of 25 between Ricky Hill and Dennis Trott was broken that flaws began to show in Bay's game.

The game changed when Hill and Trott were dismissed in successive overs, with Hill playing on to Gregg Foggo and Bascome having Trott caught at slip by Wendell Smith. Hill's 15 and Trott's 10 represented the only two scores in double figures.

In Foggo's next over the left armer then picked up the prized wicket of captain Marshall who gloved the ball onto his stumps when he mistimed a hooked shot after facing just five balls. That wicket made it 26-3.

There was a brief revival from Glenn Blakeney and Irving Romaine but Blakeney's dismissal to a poor shot which he skied to Travis Smith at deep mid-on had Bay back on the ropes as two more wickets then went down on 37.

A shared over between Foggo and teenager Mackie Crane accounted for the fifth and sixth wickets when Foggo first removed Romaine with a catch behind on the first ball of his seventh over and then went off with a hamstring injury after his second ball.

Crane completed the over and in his third delivery opened his account with the wicket of Corey Hill, to a catch in the slips by Ricky Hodsoll.

And when Clarkie Trott had his off stump knocked back by the same bowler four overs later after going for a big drive, the writing was starting to appear on the wall at 45-7.

On the second ball of his last over, Bascome picked up his third wicket when he removed Irving Burgess to make it 45-8, which became 46-9 in the following over when Crane dismissed John Ray.

Victory was secured when Damon Edwards, with a cut on his left hand, skied an easy catch to Sinclair Gibbons at short mid-wicket after hitting two fours.

The win was the fifth Camel Cup triumph for St. George's and second in succession.

Bascome had three for 20, Foggo three for 17 and Crane three for 18 for St.

George's who had to do without key bowler Eugene Foggo who injured his hand in a fall from a stepladder while painting at the club on Thursday. Also, on the morning of the match, Mark (Beaver) Ray was called in to work.

Bay suffer final thrashing From Page 27 The 61 by Bay represents the lowest total ever scored in a Camel Cup final, worse than the 62 St. George's scored against Western Stars in 1996. The 126 by St. George's was also the lowest winning score by a team batting first, the previous lowest being the 133 St. George's managed in 1988 when they defeated Bay by 11 runs at Southampton Oval.

Clarkie Trott and John Ray both picked up three wickets for Bay as St.

George's were skidded out in 35.4 overs. Ricky Hodsoll was the top bat with 38 not out, coming in at 35-4 inside the first hour of play and staying to the end in a determined stand.

"Even though I thought 126 was a low score to defend, at the same time we have the quality in our bowling,'' said St. George's captain Herbie Bascome.

"If we could get a good start and keep the pressure on I felt we could come out victorious. I thought Bailey's Bay batted a bit carelessly and sometimes when you think you have it in the bag you end up playing like that.''