Rodney Fubler captured six wickets for 13 runs to lead Willow Cuts to the most sensational result of the season yesterday.

On a moist wicket at Somerset Cricket Club, Cuts continued to be a jinx team to Devonshire, but this was the first time in two seasons they have pressed home the advantage. And for their reward, Cuts now sit atop the Open League standings with 61 points, one better than Bailey's Bay.

Devonshire went through all of last season without losing a match in the Open League but struggled against a Willow Cuts side who have always proven difficult with Fubler leading the bowling attack.

Yesterday, there was no escaping for Devonshire, even though they did well to limit the home team to 117 with Leon Place taking four for 39, Erskine Smith three for two and Anthony Edwards two for 39.

Smith's wickets came from a five-over spell and was late enough to suggest to Cuts that they, too, could get assistance from the low-playing wicket.

And in his first, third, sixth and 12th overs, Fubler responded with wicket maidens, Albert Steede (seven) and last week's century-maker Anthony Amory (nought) among his early victims.

Terry Fray led the early bats with 10 before he was run out and by the time Winston Trott, Jr. had made 14 at number 10, the die was cast.

Rec. were amazingly 39 for nine before Trott was joined by Dennis Williams to provide stubborn resistance for a while.

But Richard Basden ended the match by bowling Trott to finished with three for 16 from 8.5 overs.

Earlier, Cuts' innings was abruptly ended by Place and Smith as they lost their last five wickets for seven runs.

Dexter Basden top-scored with 31, which included three fours and two sixes.

Vivian Simons made what proved to be a vital 29 and Richard Basden added 20.

Flatts 117 Bailey's Bay 121-3 Glenn Smith took no prisoners in an audacious knock of 95 not out as Bailey's Bay, in the first match of the post-Noel Gibbons era, crushed Flatts at Devonshire Rec. field.

The left-hander hammered the bowling for nine sixes and nine fours after replacing out-of-form skipper Chris Smith (two) with the score three for one.

Smith put on 62 with Del Hollis (14) then Flatts caught a break when chief run-getter Charlie Marshall was run out without scoring when the total was 80.

But there was no respite from Smith who blasted away in an unbroken 41-run stand with Cal Dill (three).

Bay's innings lasted only 23.5 overs with Floyd Smith and Derek Wright fortunate enough to claim wickets.

The second half of the match was sheer disaster for Flatts, who started out at 89 for one, the wicket ironically falling to Glenn Smith. Once Troy Dean was out for 44, the innings folded as only number three McDonald Woolridge (54 not out) had a clue.

Clarkie Trott was superb in his second spell and finished with five for 22 from 14.2 overs. Marshall joined Trott in the Bay resurgence in the field with three for 28.

St. George's 130-1 v Western Stars At one stage Wendell Smith said he was going to bat six hours for his half-century and the St. George's skipper did just that in a dull match at St.

John's field.

Title aspirants Stars won the toss and put the east-enders in. But the only success came after one-and-a-half hours when Gary Brangman held a low catch at slip off Eugene Foggo (19) when the score was 30.

Brothers Wendell and Clay Smith batted virtually undisturbed until 6 p.m. when both teams agreed on a draw.

Wendell was on 57, an innings that included 41 singles, and the usually free-playing Clay was on 41 without hitting a boundary.

Nationals 113 Somerset 115-6 After losing five wickets for seven runs in 29 minutes in pursuit of Nationals' modest 113, Somerset needed an unbeaten seventh-wicket stand of 81 between wicket-keeper Cordell Gilbert and Gladwin Edness to seal their four-wicket win at National Sports Club.

When Donovan Livingston was removed by John Ray in his first over after facing just one delivery neither Somerset nor Nationals expected what was to come as the visitors slumped badly to seven for five within a half-hour as Chris Wright picked up three wickets in that period with Jermaine Warner (six), Davon Wade (nought), Shannon Warner (one) and Perry Maybury (nought) all going cheaply.

But the smiles slowly left the Nationals faces as captain Andre Manders helped revive the west-enders with a knock of 21 before he was sixth out when the score was 34. That was to be the last wicket to fall as Gilbert and Edness stayed together for 55 minutes to carry their team to victory.

Gilbert, who batted for 90 minutes, finished unbeaten on 33 while Edness finished with 50 not out off 56 balls with five boundaries.

Wright led the Nationals bowling with four for 48 from 14 overs. Earlier, Nationals captain Darrin Lewis celebrated his return from Bermuda's tour of England with 71 off 80 balls in 113 minutes. Lewis hit five fours and four sixes in an innings, which saw him dropped on 47 by Anthony Bailey and then on 63 by Livingston. No other Nationals batsman reached double figures.

Perry Maybury claimed five for 32 from 15 overs, including the first four wickets as Nationals struggled early on at 30 for four. Shannon Warner and Livingston, who claimed the prized wicket of Lewis, finished off the tail with Warner claiming three for eight from four overs and Livingston two for seven from 4.3 overs.

Hamilton Parish 165 Warwick 128 Chris Caisey outshone opening partner Terry Burgess with a seven-wicket haul at Wellington Oval to give Hamilton Parish a 37-run win over Warwick.

Burgess finished wicketless from 11 overs in his first match back from Bermuda's tour of England, but Caisey had plenty to smile about with his seven for 16 from 13.1 overs.

Caisey had earlier hit a dashing 24 in the Parish tail-end after Warwick clawed their way back into the match by having Parish 115 for seven after the home team had been 93 for one.

Captain Ricky Hill had a good knock of 57 from six fours as he and Millard Bean (18) put on 57 for the first wicket before Hill was run out by a direct throw at the bowler's end by Kevin Dill, who also ran out Phillip Burgess with a throw from the covers.

Other batsmen in double figures for Parish were Dennis Trott (18) and Irving Burgess (19) as Daniel Morgan claimed three for 23, Mark Tucker two for 43 and Sheridan Ming two for 22.

Warwick lost their first three wickets with just 11 runs on the board -- all to Caisey -- before Morgan (55) and Kevin Dill (10) added 69 for the fourth wicket. Morgan smashed six sixes and a four in his knock while Eugene Pitt chipped in with 24 in the tail-end. Cal Burgess supported Caisey with two for 14 from eight overs.

RODNEY FUBLER -- Six for 13.