West Indian Softball Association
30 Over Competition - Playoffs

The West Indian Softball Association’s 30 Overs playoffs will officially begin this week. Here are some of the games scheduled this week.

Premier Elite Division
Cornered Tigers and Dynasty drew byes to the semi-final round by virtue of being the top two in points in the regular season. Ocean XI will take on Rebels while Majestics will tackle Wild Bunch to advance to the semi-final round.

Premier Division
Rising Stars and Richmond Hill Sports Club drew byes to the semi-final round. L.B.I. will do battle with Young Gunz while United will clash with Avengers to determine the next two semi-finalists.

Division I
Quarterfinals action will take place with the following games. Exquisite Realty vs. Canjie or D.F.I., Tamarind Root vs. Champions, Patriots vs. Williamsburg and Scramblers vs. Hurricanes.

Division II
Quarter Final match-ups. Queens Village vs. Caribbean, Primetime vs. Ozone XI, Royals vs. M.R.I. and Triumph vs. Braves.

Division III
Semi-Final games. Cornered Tigers II vs. Brooklyn Boys and Next Generation vs. Queens United.

Division IV
Legends and Crawbwood Creek drew byes to the semi-final round. New York Raca will go up against Harlem Players while Sanders II will take on Young Guns II for the right to go to the semi finals.

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Rising Stars is unbeaten in regular season

By Darshan Chickery
August 5, 2008
Rising Stars beat Richmond Hill in Waterbury Connecticut by one wicket and 2 balls to spare to remain unbeaten in the West Indian Softball Association’s 30 Overs Premier Division competition.

Richmond Hill won the toss and decided to bat first. Pooran Balkissoon and Ahmad Shazaman (Zaman) gave Richmond Hill a relatively good start of 43 before Zaman was caught off the bowling of Kawal for 14.

Krishna Chickery joined Pooran and scored all 16 runs for their partnership before he was bowled. Richmond Hill lost two more quick wickets and was restricted to 63 for 4 after 13 overs.

Darshan Chickery and Bridgelall Heralall (Max) added 36 for the fifth wicket partnership before Darshan was caught for 21. Wickets fell at 103, 113, 125, 136 and 143 when Richmond Hill was eventually bowled out in the 29th over.

Max made 17. Rishie bagged 4 for 22 while Kawal and Ravin took 3 for 28 and 2 for 30 respectively.

Rising Stars replied with 146 for 9 off 29.4 overs. Kawal top scored with 39 while valuable contributions came from Parris (24), Jagenauth (19) and Rishie (23).

Rishie and Jagenauth hit 4 sixes between them in the innings’ last three overs to pull out what looked like an improbable feat.

Ravi Lutchman took 4 for 32 while J. Hemraj had 2 for 27.

Rising Stars and Richmond, both will draw byes to the semi-final round by virtue of being the numbers 1 and 2 seed respectively.