ST JOHN’S, An­tigua – As the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship heads in­to a two-week break, de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Guyana Harpy Ea­gles still sit on the top of the ta­ble fol­low­ing the com­ple­tion of the fifth round of match­es, last week.

The un­beat­en Harpy Ea­gles romped to a dom­i­nant 10-wick­et vic­to­ry over the Wind­ward Is­lands Vol­ca­noes in the last round to reg­is­ter their fourth win and move to 102.6 points.

Not far be­hind in sec­ond are the al­so un­beat­en Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force on 101 points.

The Red Force cut in­to the Harpy Ea­gles’ lead af­ter de­mol­ish­ing the Bar­ba­dos Pride by an in­nings and 56 runs in­side two days.

In third po­si­tion are the Lee­ward Is­lands Hur­ri­canes on 79.6 points, who leapfrogged the Pride by crush­ing the Com­bined Cam­pus­es and Col­leges (CCC) by 373 runs to claim their third win of the com­pe­ti­tion.

De­spite their de­mor­al­is­ing loss to the Red Force, the Pride still re­main in the hunt for a play­off po­si­tion and are fourth on 78 points.

The Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons boost­ed their chances of fin­ish­ing in the top four with a much-need­ed win over the West In­dies Acad­e­my and cur­rent­ly lie in fifth po­si­tion on 59.8 points, while the Vol­ca­noes oc­cu­py the sixth spot on 45.8 points.

Both the CCC and the WI Acad­e­my are yet to win a game, and sit in sev­enth and eighth re­spec­tive­ly on 26.6 points and 25 points.

Fol­low­ing the break, the sixth round of match­es re­sume on April 2.

CMC