CAVE HILL, Barbados (CMC) – Combined Campuses & Colleges finished the WICB regional four-day competition for the Headley/Weekes Trophy on a high, when they romped to an unlikely, 63-run victory over Trinidad & Tobago yesterday.

The CCC successfully defended a target of 174, when they dismissed T&T for 110 in their second innings about 45 minutes after tea on the third day in the 14th and final round match at the Three Ws Oval.

Khismar Catlin formalised the CCC’s fourth victory of the season, when he had Jason Mohammed caught behind for the top score of 33 to finish with four wickets for 56 runs from 13.1 overs to be the most successful CCC bowler.

Kavesh Kantasingh and Ryan Austin, two bowlers with ties to T&T, assisted Catlin with the demolition job.

Left-arm spin bowler Kantasingh, a T&T native studying at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies, grabbed three for 17 from 14 overs, and T&T-born Barbadian off-spinner Austin nabbed three for 22 from the same number of overs.

The result meant that the CCC finish the season with 60 points, and T&T move to 70 points with the four they gained from capturing first innings points, and failed in their bid to unseat Windward Islands from second place.

Final positions will depend on the outcomes of the other two matches, in Guyana between the hosts and Barbados, and in Anguilla between Leeward Islands and Windward Islands.

The CCC victory however, was set up by opener Kyle Corbin. The former Young Barbados captain and Young West Indies opener hit the top score of 70 which earned him the Man-of-the-Match award, as the home team were dismissed for 174 in their second innings about 35 minutes before lunch.

T&T then reached 25 without loss at lunch, and appeared to be making steady progress towards their target, when their top-order batting caved-in, and they crashed to 84 for six at tea.

Catlin made the breakthrough, when Imran Khan was caught in the slips for 24, and then T&T started to wobble, when their captain Daren Ganga was lbw to Kantasingh for four.

Austin had Adrian Barath caught at slip for 27, and Kantasingh had Darren Bravo caught at slip for six.

Austin then had Kieron Pollard caught at cover for six, and without addition to the total, Kantasingh trapped Sherwin Ganga, Daren’s younger brother, lbw for one.

After tea, the two Mohammeds – Jason and Gibran – stemmed the fall of wickets for T&T with a stand of 36 for the seventh wicket.

But Catlin trapped Gibran Mohammed lbw for one to start the beginning of the end for T&T, as they lost their last four wickets for three runs.

Earlier, Corbin hit half-dozen boundaries from 204 balls in four hours of batting to help the CCC reach a respectable total, after they resumed from their overnight total of 116 for four.

Corbin was dropped on 63, when first-slip fielder Pollard put him down off fast bowler Ravi Rampaul in the bowler’s third over of the day.

But Corbin did not make the most of his reprieve, and was bowled behind his legs sweeping at leg-spinner Khan.

Chadwick Walton was caught at point off Khan for nine and nightwatchman Shervon Penco edged Khan to the ’keeper after scoring 17 to leave the CCC on 154 for seven.

There was token resistance from the rest of the batting and Ravi Rampaul mopped up the tail with two of the last three wickets.

Khan was the pick of the T&T bowlers with four for 36 from 15 overs, Rampaul collected three for 44 from 17 overs, and Amit Jaggernauth snared two for 35 from 16 overs.