Reifer

A shot-filled century from in-form Barbadian Floyd Reifer, put the Combined Campuses and Colleges (CCC) in a good position to pull off an outright win over champions Jamaica in their 11th-round WICB regional four-day clash at Sabina Park yesterday.

The 36-year-old Reifer, who is player-coach of the development team, scored 140 as the CCC, 58 runs behind on first innings, closed yesterday's third day on 324-6, an overall lead of 266.

Reifer, who shared in a fourth-wicket partnership of 135 with fellow countryman Jamal Smith, who got 46, hit 13 fours and three sixes as Jamaica, who suffered misfortunes and controversial umpiring decisions, toiled in the sun.

The century was Refier's third of the season and second in succession, following a similar knock against the Windward Islands in St Vincent and the Grenadines in the last round when he scored 129. Jamaica wicketkeeper Chadwick Walton, 19 not out, and all-rounder Kevin McLean, four, will resume batting on today's final day.

Recalled off-spinner Bevon Brown was Jamaica's leading bowler with 3-53, Andrew Richardson, 1-62 and medium pacer Brendan Nash, 1-21 and Odean Brown each got a wicket. Leg-spinner Gavin Wallace, 0-10 off 10 overs, was uncharacteristically underutilised by skipper Tamar Lambert.

"It was a very, very good knock under the circumstances," said Reifer. "The aim is to bat for maybe another hour or so tomorrow (this morning) and post a 300-run lead, which we know will be difficult for the Jamaicans to make on a fourth day pitch."

Leewards beat Barbados

AT CRAB HILL, Barbados: Leeward Islands completed an innings and five-run victory over Barbados about half-hour before tea on the third day of their 11th round match in the WICB regional four-day competition yesterday at the North Stars Social and Cultural Club.

Scores:

LEEWARD ISLANDS 439 (Runako Morton 210, Codville Rogers 44, Gavin Tonge 32, Tonito Willett 29, Steve Liburd 29; Tino Best 2-68, Kevin Stoute 2-77, Corey Collymore 2-85).

BARBADOS 241 (Dwayne Smith 62, Kirk Edwards 54, Dale Richards 36, Patrick Browne 27; Anthony Martin 2-39, Wilden Cornwall 2-40, Tonito Willett 2-45) and 193 (Kevin Stoute 100, Dale Richards 33, Nikolai Charles 20; Gavin Tonge 17-3-62-5, Tonito Willett 4-51).

Windwards fight back

At KINGSTOWN, St Vincent: Trinidad and Tobago, ahead of the Windward Islands by 104 runs on first innings, reached 112 for six in their second innings at the close of the third day of their 11th-round WICB regional four-day match at Arnos Vale yesterday.

SCORES:

T&T 361 (Sherwin Ganga 98, Jason Mohammed 80, Daren Ganga 45, Adrian Barath 30, Ravi Rampaul 23; Shane Shillingford 3-67, Deighton Butler 2-49, Kenroy Peters 2-54, Ray Casimir 2-69) and 112-6 (Adrian Barath 27, Darren Bravo 22, Ravi Rampaul 21 not out; Kenroy Peters 2-12, Nelon Pascal 2-41).

WINDWARDS 257 (Donwell Hector 99, Rawl Lewis 85, Andre Fletcher 22; Sherwin Ganga 4-26, Ravi Rampaul 4-47, Amit Jaggernauth 2-59).

CCC 1st Innings 171 (N Parris 53; G Wallace 3-19)

JAMAICA 1st Innings 229 (Brenton Parchment 52; Kavesh Kantasingh 4-79)

CCC 2nd Innings

(overnight 22 without loss)

O Phillips lbw b B. Brown	15
K Corbin lbw b O. Brown	38
N Parris b B. Brown	8
J Smith lbw b B. Brown	46
F Reifer lbw b Richardson	140
K Wilkinson lbw b Nash	19
+C Walton not out	19
K McClean not out	4
Extras (b15, lb6, w6, nb8)	35
TOTAL (6 wkts, 114 overs)	324

Fall of wickets: 1-63, 2-65, 3-74, 4-209, 5-265, 6-313.

Bowling: Richardson 17-0-63-1, Bernard 15-2-65-0, B Brown 35-13-53-3, O Brown 18-3-49-1, Wallace 10-1-24-0, Parchment 1-1-0-0, Lambert 9-1-28-0, Nash 9-1-21-1.

Position: CCC lead by 266 runs.

Toss: CCC.

Umpires: Norman Malcolm, Evelyn Jones.