Big Trent Lightbourne hammered 102 runs for lowly Warwick, but this fine effort still was not sufficient to prevent his team from falling to their third straight defeat against Somerset Bridge at Southampton Oval.

Somerset Bridge won by two wickets, thanks to a brisk innings of 59 by Brian Gibbons as they managed to reach victory off 45.2 overs.

Gibbons, who struck six fours and a six, put on 70 runs during a sixth-wicket stand with Duval Binns who scored 23. The other top batsmen were David Jones and Robin Swan with 19 apiece, Gary Crofton with 16 and Tony Cheeseman with 14.

Warwick's top bowler was E.Ferguson who took three wickets for 23 runs off 10 overs. Big El James, who has who has been playing Commercial League cricket for two seasons before returning to join Warwick, took two wickets for nine runs off 10 overs with five maidens.

Batting hero Lightbourne helped Warwick reach what was easily their highest score of the season, but it was unfortunate for the team that few others appeared to be in the mood for runs. Opening batsman Johnny Nusum chipped in with 19, James with 13, Mark Tucker with 12 and Kallan Johnston with 10.

Lightbourne and Tucker put on 68 for the fifth wicket, taking the score from 97 for four to 165 when Tucker was run out.

Lightbourne finished his fine knock with 14 fours and a six.

Gibbons was the best bowler for the Bridge with four for three runs off 6.3 overs, including three maidens. Crofton had two for 51 off eight overs.

Willow Cuts 101 St. David's 92 Poor batting once again proved to be the contributing factor to the third straight loss suffered by St. David's in the Premier Division this season.

Even on their home ground at Lord's the home team's batting woes continued when they were unable to reach a miserly winning target of 102, losing their last five wickets for seven runs.

The grim batting display came after skipper James Pace saw his bowling attack perform well with Herbie Bascome, Steven Nurse, Pace and Dale Lambe taking all of the wickets between them. Bascome had three for 22, Nurse three for 25, Lambe two for none and Pace two for nine.

Willow Cuts' innings had one period of stability when Rodney Fubler and Trevor Dickinson put on 48 for the seventh wicket, taking the score from 51 for six to 99. Fubler finished with 26 and Dickinson with 31.

The only other player in double figures was Andre Hendrickson with 15. Batting became an early nightmare for the home team when they lost openers Allan Richardson (two) and Eddie Lambe (nought) with only two runs scored.

Lionel Cann (39) and Pace (10) put on 42 for the second wicket, but once the latter was bowled by spinner Vivian Simons, wickets fell at a fast rate.

Of the remaining batsmen only Dean Pitcher offered resistance with a defiant 21.

Joseph Matthews took two for six, Richard Basden two for 11, Simons two for 12 and Rodney Fubler two for 25.

PHC 51 Southampton 55-0 PHC are quickly finding out that top-flight cricket and top-flight soccer are two vastly different entities.

After batting their allotted 50 overs against Western Stars last week, PHC were bundled for their second low score of the season at White Hill field.

Ryan Belboda, a defender with the Rangers soccer team, will have had particular pleasure in putting PHC under fire by claiming six for 15 from eight overs.

PHC hardly had a chance in this match, their best partnership being 18 for the second wicket, which ended when William Minors was caught behind off Garry Williams for five. Williams finished with two for 21.

Sheridan Ming was the only PHC batsman in double figures with 10. Their total was debited 19 extras.

Keith Wainwright (18) and Olin Jones (31) endured little hardship in winning the match in 8.3 overs. Jones hit three fours and Wainwright one.

The result took Southampton to the top of the tables on scoring rate over Western Stars, Bailey's Bay and St. George's, the other sides with perfect records through three rounds.

Hamilton Parish 92 Western Stars 95-2 Western Stars put Hamilton Parish in their place with an eight-wicket thrashing at Wellington Oval.

Arnold Manders, shut out by the Parish batsmen, exacted a form of revenge when he came to the crease, blasting 60 not out in an unbroken second-wicket stand of 84 with opener Gregory Sampson (16).

Parish had early success as Phillip Bailey bowled Anthony Foggo for two, then Chris Caisey did likewise against Andre Manders (three) to reduce the league champions to 12 for two.

But they found Manders in a no-nonsense mood as he crushed 11 fours and two sixes with Stars completing their third straight win three balls into the 22nd over.

Parish's problems were immediate after they won the toss and elected to bat.

Millard Bean was bowled without scoring by Roger Leverock with eight on the board and Cal Burgess (four) had his stumps knocked back by Gary Brangman two runs later.

Dennis Trott and Irving Burgess, who both made 15, added 21 for the third wicket before the former was bowled by left-arm leg-spinner Wayne Richardson, then dismissals were fairly regular.

Richardson returned his best figures of the season so far, four for 27 from 10 overs, while Hasan Durham, also a lefty, took three for 15 from three.

Leverock had two for 21.

Mike Burgess provided some resistance for Parish in the middle order with 22 and Caisey made 13.

Flatts 155 Cleveland 156-5 Diallo Sharrieff took four for 19 and Aaron Adams hit 48 to lead Cleveland to their first win of the season at Sea Breeze Oval.

A fifth-wicket stand of 57 between Adams and Allan Douglas put the result beyond doubt after Flatts had staged something of a fightback.

Adams hit six fours in 94 minutes at the crease while Douglas had a six and a four in finishing not out on 26. Wayne Smith chipped in with 23. Young Kevin Hurdle took two for 31 for Flatts.

Derek Wright was easily the pick of the Flatts batsmen with 53, which included two sixes and four fours.

Wright was in the midst of an early collapse that saw Flatts fall from 35 for one to 39 for four.

Wright and Troy Bean (17) took it to 82 and there were further stands of 24 with Maxwell Lawrence (five) and 28 with Hurdle (11), but not enough to carry the visitors to a position of strength.

Spinner Del Hollis assisted Sharrieff with three for 20 while Cecil Pitcher took two for 35.

Social Club 116 St. George's 118-4 St. George's scored their third straight victory in comfortable fashion at St.

John's field with spinner Eugene Foggo taking four for 27 and then scoring 33 not out in a six-wicket triumph.

Social Club, who went in after winning the toss, hurt their own cause early and often as two run-outs left them in a hole at 35 for four. But knocks of 22 from skipper Webster Mills and a lusty 36 by number seven Karl Furbert made certain they passed the century mark.

Mills batted for just over an hour, but was unfortunately involved in both run-outs after the side had earlier lost Francis Grenardo (three) and Lawrence Gilks (two).

Furbert came in when the score was 58 for five and his total accounted for all but five of the runs after he was eighth out at 99. The beefy right-hander hit five fours and was credited with a five on an overthrow that went to the boundary.

Foggo's wickets came from seven overs as he was the fourth bowler used. Ricky Hodsoll earlier took three for 39 and Kenny Phillips one for 39.

When St. George's batted, Social tasted success in the sixth over as Cory Berkeley took a good catch over his head running toward the point boundary to send Dexter Smith back for eight when the score was 24.

The east-enders quickly moved ahead to victory but three more wickets fell in the process.

Clay Smith hit a six and four fours in his 26 before he fell at 63 and Troy Hall went for five before skipper Graham Fox and Foggo carried the side to the brink.

Fox out was lbw for 24 and Ryan Steede (seven not out) joined the opener for the final runs. Foggo hit four fours in his unbeaten innings.

Furbert took two for 46 and Roddy Thompson two for 52.

RYAN BELBODA -- Six for 15 Southampton against PHC.