Trinidad and To­ba­go Red Force clinched its on­ly vic­to­ry of the West In­dies Cham­pi­onship when they whipped bot­tom-of-the-ta­ble Ja­maica Scor­pi­ons by nine wick­ets in­side three days.

Play­ing at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Tarou­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Fri­day in their fi­nal match of an oth­er­wise dis­ap­point­ing sea­son, Red Force bowled out Scor­pi­ons for 275 in their sec­ond in­nings be­fore eas­i­ly over­haul­ing the 99 runs re­quired for vic­to­ry.

Open­er Vikash Mo­han, in his third first class match af­ter mak­ing his de­but ear­li­er in the cam­paign, steered the hosts over the line with an un­beat­en 44.

He put on 74 for the first wick­et with Kamil Pooran who made 39, en­sur­ing Red Force en­coun­tered no hic­cups en route to the un­com­pli­cat­ed tar­get.

The 28-year-old right-han­der was pos­i­tive in his ap­proach to the chase, lash­ing five fours and a cou­ple of six­es in a 66-ball knock.

Once Pooran de­part­ed af­ter fac­ing 70 balls and strik­ing half-dozen fours, cap­tain Dar­ren Bra­vo ar­rived to belt two fours and a six in an un­beat­en 14, to bring a swift end to the con­test.

Ear­li­er, Scor­pi­ons man­aged to add on­ly 76 to their overnight 199 for five be­fore be­ing bowled out in their sec­ond in­nings on the stroke of lunch.

Al­daine Thomas, on sev­en at the start and Ab­hi­jai Mans­ingh, on 10, stretched their overnight sixth wick­et stand to 61, threat­en­ing to frus­trate the hosts bid for a quick vic­to­ry.

Thomas played freely, hit­ting 39 from 58 de­liv­er­ies with half-dozen fours and a six while Mans­ingh struck 32 from 54 balls with four fours.

Test speed­ster Shan­non Gabriel (2-52) got the break­through when he bowled both bats­men in suc­ces­sive overs as Scor­pi­ons lost their last five wick­ets for on­ly 23 runs.

Leg-spin­ner Im­ran Khan added a fur­ther three wick­ets to his tal­ly to fin­ish with four for 47.

YES­TER­DAY'S SCORES

TRINIDAD & TO­BA­GO RED FORCE 302 (Ter­rance Hinds 94, An­der­son Phillip 63, Joshua Da Sil­va 39, Tion Web­ster 30; Der­val Green 3-56, Mar­quino Mind­ley 2-56, Jeav­or Roy­al 2-60, Ojay Shields 2-72) and 102 for one (Vikash Mo­han 44 not out, Kamil Pooran 39)

JA­MAICA SCOR­PI­ONS 125 (Der­val Green 39, Jeav­or Roy­al 27; Tion Web­ster 5-36, Ter­rance Hinds 3-40) and 275 (Jer­maine Black­wood 68, Leroy Lugg 66, Al­daine Thomas 39, Ab­hi­jai Mans­ingh 32; Im­ran Khan 4-47, An­der­son Phillip 2-46)

At Queen’s Park Oval, T&T

Pride re­quire a fur­ther 208 for vic­to­ry with sev­en wick­ets in­tact.

WIND­WARD IS­LANDS VOL­CA­NOES 237 (Al­ick Athanaze 59, Tevyn Wal­cott 55, Ryan John 41, Sunil Am­bris 28; Akeem Jor­dan 5-44, Roshon Primus 2-44, Jomel War­ri­can 2-57) and 225 (Sunil Am­bris 79, Ryan John 37, Tevyn Wal­cott 35; Jomel War­ri­can 4-58) vs BAR­BA­DOS PRIDE 227 (Shayne Mose­ley 112, Rashawn Wor­rell 35; Lar­ry Ed­ward 6-45) and 28 for three.

At the Guyana Na­tion­al Sta­di­um, Guyana

Hur­ri­canes re­quire a fur­ther 62 runs for vic­to­ry with nine wick­ets in­tact.

GUYANA HARPY EA­GLES 122 (Matthew Nan­du 22; Rah­keem Corn­wall 4-27, Col­in Archibald 2-27, Javier Spencer 2-35) and 267 (Ke­mol Sa­vory 66, Veerasam­my Per­maul 65, Kevlon An­der­son 31, Kevin Sin­clair 31; Rah­keem Corn­wall 4-58, Je­re­mi­ah Louis 3-66) vs LEE­WARD IS­LANDS HUR­RI­CANES 247 (Jah­mar Hamil­ton 58, Kofi James 42, Kier­an Pow­ell 39, Kea­cy Car­ty 23; Nial Smith 4-33, Veerasam­my Per­maul 3-51) and 81 for one (Kier­an Pow­ell 47 not out)

(CMC)