Sandys Sports Club clinched the Commercial Cricket League title at Shelly Bay on Sunday when they beat North Village by four wickets.

Defending champions West Indian Association moved into second place with a two-wicket win over St. David's in a high-scoring match at Police Field while Pembroke United picked up their second draw of the season by comfortably holding Forties at Warwick Secondary School.

Village fielded only 10 men -- including Wendell Lindsay and Donville Yarde who made their first appearances of the season -- but their 166 for eight proved no match for Sandys who coasted home in fading light in the 39th over.

Dion Ball (34), David Scraders (33), Mike Levon (26) and skipper Derek Bell with an unbeaten 22 all made useful contributions to the Village total after they had been sent in, skipper Terry Corday and David DeSilva each picking up three wickets for Sandys.

Opener Ray DeSilva carried Sandys to the brink of victory before being sixth out for a painstaking 51 made up of ones and twos but no boundaries.

DeSilva and Terry Ward added 71 for the second wicket before Ward fell for 37 to a superb one-handed running catch on the long-on boundary by Gerald Bean.

Troy Berkeley made 30 while Mike Young and Yarde each took two wickets.

Said Corday: "It was almost dark when we finished after a late start. It was nice to win. We went down to celebrate, we were keyed up. We wanted to win the game and get it out of the way and not have to worry about our last game against St. David's. Now we can relax and enjoy ourselves on Sunday.'' Jerry Callender, normally a lower order batsman, was promoted to opener and hammered an unbeaten innings of 120 as WIA squeezed home with seven balls to spare after St. David's declared at 234 for six after 36 overs.

Openers Dean Pitcher and Rodney Burchall (21) gave St. David's a flying start, adding 72 from 14 overs in the first hour. Hard-hitting Pitcher went on to make 72 with a six and nine fours and other useful scores came from Dale Lamb (38) and Niko Pace (30).

Olwin Clarke and skipper Randy Liverpool each took two wickets for WIA, Liverpool having danger man Jeff Pitcher stumped for eight.

Callender cracked two sixes and 14 fours, laying the foundation for WIA's victory by adding 87 for the first wicket with Junior Watts (23). Roy Trotman made 23.

Skipper George Cannonier was the pick of St. David's attack with three for 81 from 20 overs while Jeff Pitcher had two for 72.

Gary Edwards followed up his 81 against Safeguard Security the previous week with an innings of 78 and Harold Minors clouted 60 as Forties completed their league season by piling up 220 for five against Pembroke United, despite the long grass at Warwick Secondary.

Edwards, who hit a six and seven fours, added 75 for the second wicket with skipper Gordon Campbell (28). Minors, run out off the final ball, struck three sixes and seven fours. Rowan Ramotar was Pembroke's leading bowler with three for 38 from 12 overs.

Campbell (two for 12) snapped up two early wickets -- one to a fine catch at third slip by Mark Melvin which removed Arthur Dublin -- but Forties' generosity let Pembroke off the hook as they spilled a hatful of catches.

Skipper Ian Coke was the chief beneficiary -- Forties even allowed him to stay after he had been given out caught behind -- and he finished with three sixes and three fours in an unbeaten 61 despite a hand injury.

Opener Jeff Newton defied the Forties attack for a long time until he was forced to retire hurt on 33, having survived a simple slip catch in the second over of the innings from Andrew Paynter whose eight overs cost seven runs but brought him no wickets on his 34th birthday.

Apart from Coke, Pembroke made little attempt to win and the game was called off with eight balls remaining, Pembroke closing at 109 for four.