ST AUGUSTINE, Trinidad,(CMC) – Opener Damel Evelyn, Test batsman Shamarh Brooks and wicketkeeper Demario Richards all carved out fifties but were unable to prevent Combined Campuses and Colleges’ slide to a 123-run defeat to Trinidad and Tobago Red Force.

Resuming day four of their sixth round match in the West Indies Championship on 67 for one, requiring a further 382 to complete an improbable victory, CCC surrendered for 325 late in the final session at the Frank Worrell Memorial Ground here Saturday.
Test batsman Shamarh Brooks.
Evelyn, unbeaten overnight on 43, top-scored with 73 while Richards chipped in with an unbeaten 66 and Brooks, 62, the trio providing much of the fight required.

Number nine Romario Greaves struck a cavalier 47 late on but off-spinner Bryan Charles snatched four for 46 and left-arm spinner Khary Pierre, three for 90, to power Red Force to their third win of the campaign.
The loss kept CCC winless this season, the University side logging their sixth straight defeat of a frustrating season.
Pierre provided Red Force with an explosive start to the morning when he bowled nightwatchman Zishan Motara (0) before CCC had added, and then also bowled Ordain McCatty without scoring to leave the visitors tottering on 69 for three.

Evelyn and Brooks then combined to patch the innings up in a third wicket stand of 96, a partnership which lifted CCC to 154 without further loss at lunch.
The 22-year-old Evelyn faced 182 deliveries and struck seven fours while Brooks, 35, hit nine fours off 101 deliveries to mark his second fifty of the campaign.

Part-time off-spinner Vikash Mohan got the breakthrough in the third over after lunch when he trapped Evelyn lbw and Brooks followed at the start of the next over, bowled playing back to one from fast bowler Anderson Phillip which kept slightly low.

With CCC stumbling again on 165 for five, Richards produced a defiant knock to energise the lower order. The 25-year-old lashed eight fours and two sixes in a 149-ball knock, inspiring stands of 31 for the sixth wicket with Roshon Primus (13), 52 for the seventh with Yannick Ottley (19) and 77 for the eighth with Greaves.

Once Greaves holed out to mid-on off Charles after blasting nine fours in a 77-ball knock, CCC lost their last three wickets without a run added.