Trappers stay on top
Cricket League after crushing West End Warriors by 146 runs on but Jamaican Association stayed in contention as they vaulted over early leaders North Village into second place.
Leg Trappers stretched their lead to 131 points as Village lost for the second week in a row, going down by three wickets to defending champions Watford Sports Club, whose victory lifted them into sixth place.
Jamaican Association, fired up by a seven-wicket haul from skipper David Gibbs, raced to an emphatic nine-wicket win over St. David's at Garrison Field while in-form skipper Patrick Waithe spurred Police Recreation Club to a four-wicket win over Public Transportation Board at Shelly Bay.
Skipper Graham Strange, with seven fours and a six in an unbeaten 67, and Justin Freisenbruch (31) added 96 for the fifth wicket as Leg Trappers hammered 98 runs in the last 13 overs to compile a challenging 216 for five against West End Warriors at Nationals, where each side played one short.
David Jarrett took three for 71 for Warriors, who in turn were dismissed for 70 in the 24th over -- Leon Eve was top scorer with 24 not out -- as Noel Capewell claimed three for 13 and Tom Wilson two for four in three balls to seal Leg Trappers' fourth successive victory.
St. David's, who began the season with a two-wicket win over Forties, tumbled to their third straight defeat as Gibbs, with seven for 29 in 9.3 overs, and his new-ball partner Michael Campbell (three for 29) shot out the East Enders for 58.
Donovan Livingston hit an unbeaten 32 as Jamaican Association knocked off the runs in only 12 overs, losing only the wicket of Norman Godwin (16).
Skipper Terry Corday survived a first-ball chance to make top score of 47 (seven fours) as Watford, without key batsmen Clyde Best and Terry Ward, secured victory in the 26th over after North Village had struggled to 128 in 39.1 overs at the Royal Naval Field.
His son, 16-year-old opening bowler Trevor (three for 32) reduced Village to 25 for three, removing Mike Young, skipper Dion Ball and Andy Boyce cheaply, but a patient 32 from Shiran DeSilva and 20 by Haile Melakot gave the total an air of respectability before Blake West polished off the innings with three for five.
Watford lost openers David DeSilva and Ian Armstrong with only seven runs on the board but skipper Corday -- dropped in the slips by Boyce off Young, who finished with four for 46 -- added 33 with his brother Michael (25) for the third wicket and then 58 with Troy Berkeley (36) for the fourth wicket to engineer victory.
PTB, led by Brian Brangman's 46, batted out their 42 overs to score 124 for six against Police, whose chief wicket-takers were Ian Moe (two for 19) and Dawson Dates (two for 49).
Skipper Patrick Waithe followed up his unbeaten 75 against Watford the previous week by notching up another half-century, cracking eight fours and a six in his 62, as he and Roosevelt Maronie (39) helped steer Police home in the 22nd over.