DIVISION I’s St Ouen, Air Conditioning Jersey, Sporting Club and Division II’s JUBRFC won through to the semi-finals of the JEP Brighter KO Cup last night.
The semi-finals, to be played next Wednesday, pit JUBRFC against Sporting Club at Grainville and Air Conditioning Jersey against St Ouen at FB1.
So a clash between Sporting Club and the side that pipped them in a play-off for the Division I title last season is still on the cards.
Catches win matches and that was certainly the case for St Ouen as they took nine to defeat Division II Jersey Academicals at Les Quennevais.
Dendy Thompson took the catch of the match, at short mid-wicket, taking a hard-hit from Peter Travers.
Thompson and Ward Jenner both bowled well to take four wickets apiece for the winners, Thompson for 27 runs and Jenner for just five runs.
After Danny Blasco hit three boundaries in his 31, St Ouen were guided to victory by Jenner and Mark Tribe with unbeaten scores of 33 and 30 respectively.
Division III leaders NatWest gave themselves a mountain to climb as four JUBRFC batsmen hit scores in the 30s to amass 174 for 4 in 15 overs.
NatWest enjoyed themselves to reply with 139 for 9.
Good all round bowling helped Division III Pentagon restrict Division I Air Conditioning Jersey to 119 for 6, Nigel Crocker top-scoring with four 4s in his 47.
However the heart of Pentagon’s attack was ripped out by superb bowling and great catches from Chris Mathews and Crocker to dismiss both openers in the first two overs for just seven runs.
The following two batsmen went in the next two overs with only 15 on the board and Pentagon stuttered along to finish on 59 for eight.
Division I leaders Sporting Club beat nine-man Division II leaders St John, at FB2, by eight wickets.
Rob English struck four 4s and two 6s to finish 38 not out in St John’s total of 83.
Rene Maraj grabbing three wickets for 11 runs in two overs.
Sporting Club reached their target in 8.6 overs with Tony Carlyon, four 4s, undefeated on 32.
Article posted on 17th June, 2004 - 12.00am
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