Terence Corday claimed a hat-trick to send Commercial Cricket League leaders Forties crashing to defeat but Sandys Sports Club's victory was overshadowed by stumps being knocked over in a show of petulance by Pembroke United who stormed off the pitch and forfeited their match to North Village.

In the other weekend game West Indian Association, down to nine men, clung on for a draw against Safeguard Security with their last pair at the wicket.

Just 10 points separate the top five clubs but Sandys, by virtue of their seven-wicket win, now trail Forties by only five points and have a game in hand.

The flashpoint at Garrison Field came 25 balls from the end of the Pembroke-Village match with the result still in the balance.

Umpire Mike Levon signalled a wide -- the seventh of the innings -- against Junior Lindo, a call that sparked an angry reaction from the Pembroke players.

According to Village scorer Wendell Lindsay, opening bowler Rowan Ramotar kicked over the stumps at the batsman's end and Arthur Dublin pulled up the stumps at the bowler's end and broke them by slamming them into the pitch.

The Pembroke players left the field, ignoring the pleas of club representative Roy Tyrell to continue the game, and conceded the points, their seventh successive defeat in their first season back in the league.

Tyrell, an umpire himself, told Lindsay: "Take the points, I don't condone behaviour like that.'' Village, chasing Pembroke's 163 for seven, were 149 for seven in 37.5 overs when the game ended, having lost two wickets at 146 after Mike Young, with a half century, and David Scraders (30) put on 80 for the first wicket.

Young's 50 included two sixes and five fours. Left-arm slow bowler Joshua Butler was the pick of the Pembroke attack with four for 32.

Earlier Pembroke skipper Ian Coke, dropped six times according to Lindsay, topscored with seven fours in his 54, adding 80 for the second wicket with Chris Cox (34) as slow bowler Ernest Paynter picked up four for 29.

Sandys' opening bowlers Corday and Ray DeSilva, bowling unchanged, skittled out Forties for a paltry 75 in 27.3 overs at Police Field.

Corday, 21, struck on the hour, claiming a hat-trick in his eighth over to leave the Forties innings in tatters at 37 for five.

Corday, who finished with six for 37, had Andrew Paynter caught behind, bowled Leon Dickinson off his legs and then completed his hat-trick with an inswinger that knocked back Gerald Simons' middle stump. DeSilva finished with four for 25.

Skipper Gordon Campbell nearly carried his bat before being ninth out for 36.

Forties struck back immediately with Andrew Paynter rocking his former team-mates by removing openers Michael Corday and Ray DeSilva with only seven runs on the board.

Although Sandys lost Troy Berkeley at 34, Terry Ward and David DeSilva added an unbroken 45 for the fourth wicket to steer Sandys to an emphatic victory.

It was Forties' first league defeat since the 1992 season.

Ward, who struck two sixes -- one a tremendous hit over the sightscreen at the northern end off Campbell -- and five fours, finished on 47 not out. DeSilva was unbeaten on 20.

There was drama at Shelly Bay where defending champions West Indian Association's last pair, skipper Randy Liverpool and Jerry Callender, batted out the final 13 overs to deny Safeguard Security.

WIA, chasing Safeguard's 161 for eight, closed on 108 for seven with Liverpool hitting his side's only boundaries -- a six and two fours -- in his unbeaten 40.

WIA were reduced to nine men when George Babb limped off with a pulled hamstring and former skipper Ken Savoury refused to return following the first water break, unhappy at being taken off after bowling three wayward overs for 14 runs.

Former Cup Match player Eldon Raynor continued his fine form, notching up his second half century in three innings with two fours in an unbeaten 51 after Francis Grenardo (33) and Nigel Clewett (23) put on 65 for the first wicket.

Callender and Liverpool, the pair who saved their side with the bat, were the chief wicket-takers, Callender claiming four for 47 from 14 consecutive overs and Liverpool two for 25.

Safeguard veterans Paul Field and Oliver Bain picked up two wickets apiece to peg back WIA.

Bain sent down 15 consecutive overs, taking two for 38, but was forced to miss the final 45 minutes because he had to leave for another engagement.