TT women tie with Jamaica

ST. GEORGE’S: Defending champions St. Lucia, logged their fourth win in the 2003 West Indies Women’s Cricket championship with a seven-wicket triumph over Guyana, to stay on course for the title. In a rain-reduced match at Victoria Park, the St. Lucians won by seven wickets to remain top of the standings, heading into their match against former champions Trinidad and Tobago yesterday. In the day’s other matches, TT ended in a tie with Jamaica, while Grenada beat the US. Electing to bat against the St. Lucians, Guyana struggled to 95 all out off 44 overs, with Faye Franklyn (34) their only player getting to double figures. Leg-spinner Leona Vitalis led the St. Lucia bowling with five for 16 off nine overs, while captain Verena Felicien, with one for 10 off nine overs, Phillipa Thomas (1-7) and Roylene Cooper (1-16) helped stifle Guyana’s batting. Set a revised target of 39 in 20 overs, St. Lucia comfortably reached the target at 39 for three with 9.2 overs to spare. Thomas top scored with 15 against Candacy Atkins (2-16). At River Sallee, Jamaica fell one run short of a revised winning target and, the match referee is to decide whether the match is a tie.

TT made 181 all out off 43 overs and the Jamaicans — set a revised winning target of 124 in 34 overs — finished on 123 for five off 34 overs. Jade Chadee (40) and Stephanie Power (37), led TT’s batting against off-spinner Sandra Clarke (4-62), and medium pacers Stephanie Taylor (2-17) and Jackie Staple (2-28), who shared four wickets for Jamaica. When Jamaica replied, captain Jackie Robinson (51) and Herma Nathan (26) were the top scorers. Grenada beat North America by six wickets in a rain-reduced game at La Sagesse. Batting first, the North Americans scored 109 for four off 39 overs, with Ave Morgan (27) and Elizabeth Eugene (23) top-scoring against Bernadette Mahon (3-19) and Lydia Edgar (1-22). Grenada, led by an unbeaten 43 from Ann-Rose Peters, replied with 110 for three off 21 overs. Morgan captured two for 29 for the North Americans.