AFTER a fiercely contested six sittings, it took fives to decide the winners of last Sunday’s Manniram ‘Packer’ Shew birth anniversary feature dominoes game, played at Ernest shop, Canal Number One.

In the end, International 6 with four fives bested Barbados (246) with two, after the two teams were deadlocked on 73 games and with six sixes each. Canal Six trailed on 68.
Barbados had the better of the early exchanges but International 6 took a decisive two-game lead heading into the final sitting with the scores reading International 6 on 63, Barbados two games behind on 61 and Canal Six still in contention with 57.

Veteran Hilbert ‘Bumpy’ Ali, in a superb display, registered the maximum 18 games for the winners, which also included sharing the lone love. Skipper Shew supported with 16. For Barbados, Leroy Hope and Anderson Layne scored 15 and 14 games respectively. The top markers for Canal Six were M. Samjeewan (15) and Ramroop ‘Spoon’ Sukhai (14). P. Ramdial from Canal suffered a love.

Trophies were awarded to the winners and first runners-up and top player Hilbert Ali.
As a kind gesture to the visiting Barbadians, some of whom were here for the staging of the World Council Domino Feferation (WCDF), Shew donated the winnees’ trophy to captain Anderson Layne.