- Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer
Holmwood's legspinner Domain Sangster (right) and wicketkeeper Jeffrey Scott celebrate one of Spanish Town's wickets yesterday. Sangster ended at 8-29 and lost the Spalding Cup.
LEGSPINNER DOMAIN Sangster took eight wickets to bowl Holmwood Technical to their second straight All-Island Spalding Cup title, the symbol of schoolboy cricket supremacy, beating Spanish Town by 281 runs in the final, which ended at Chedwin Park yesterday.
Finals score: Holmwood 222 and 291; Spanish Town 85 and 147.
Resuming at 25 without loss and despite getting a good start of 67 from Ricardo Howe and Marinardo Dixon, Spanish Town's batting fell under pressure from legspinner Sangster, who finished with 8-29 off 15 overs.
Cruising at 65 without loss, Spanish Town looked as if they were going to bat throughout the day but pacer Bruce Blackwood (1-10) had other ideas. The fast bowler had Howe, who just over a week ago scored a double century in the Grace Shield final against Jonathan Grant, caught at square leg by substitute Neive McNalley for 35.
Before Wayne Morgan could get settled, Sangster had his middle stump uprooted, he went without scoring at 67 for two. With Sangster getting the ball to bounce and turn, he picked up the wickets of Junior McKenzie (one) and Ricardo Ennis (zero) at 74 for four.
When Sangster secured his second caught and bowled victim, Kevon Goldson for seven, Spanish Town's hopes were shattered.
Dixon was the sixth man out, run out for 29. Marvin Reid also contributed 29 and along with Iva Johnson, 18, no other batsman reach double figures.
Holmwood coach Robert Lewis was a happy man after his team's massive victory. "To have won by 283 runs is a good victory, it was a good all-round performance from the guys."
He added, come next season, "I am expecting that we do as well as we did this year."
