41-run victory over touring New Haven Cricket Club of Connecticut at Sea Breeze Oval yesterday. The visitors played one short.

Stowe provided the foundation for the Commercial Select's 166, topscoring with 45 and adding 83 for the fourth wicket with his Forties team-mate Gladwin Ingham (34) before Blake West hammered six fours in a quickfire 33.

Pick of the New Haven attack was opening bowler Rudy Moffett of Guyana with three for 42 while Barbadian John Williams and guest player Haskell Clarke of Young Men's Social Club took two each.

Fred Anderson, a Jamaican who is in his sixties, and Williams (40) put on 55 for the second wicket after Sydney Huggins was bowled second ball for nought but when Anderson was fourth out at 94 New Haven subsided to 125 all out against the spin of Stowe (four for 19) and Randy Liverpool (two for 33). See page 14 for full scorecard.

The second and final tour match against another Commercial Select XI is at Sea Breeze Oval today (start 12.30 p.m.) The Bermuda Cricket Board of Control yesterday confirmed that the Knockout semi-final match between Bailey's Bay and Southampton, abandoned last Sunday, will be played at Sea Breeze Oval on Saturday, starting at 12 noon. The winner will advance to Sunday's final against Western Stars, at the same venue at 12 noon.

SAILOR KIRKLAND WINS SCHOOLS TITLE SLG Sailor Kirkland wins schools title Zander Kirkland put his overseas summer campaign in the Laser Radial to work by winning the New England Singlehanded High School Championships over the weekend.

More than 20 competitors took part in the event, held at Stonington, Connecticut.

Kirkland, 17, represented Tabor Academy of Marion, Massachusetts, one of 80 High Schools in the New England region.

As a result of his efforts, he now qualifies for the US High School Championships in Seattle, Washington on October 28.

"I was pleased with my consistency over the seven races,'' said Kirkland.

"It was light, three to five knots with almost as much current. My worst finish was an eighth in the 25 boat fleet. It was also fun to bump into fellow Bermudian and ex-Optimist sailor, Lawson Williams, representing Brewster Academy.''