KINGSTON, Jamaica, (CMC) – THE Guyana Harpy Eagles stormed to their fourth win of the West Indies Championship with a crushing 212-run verdict over hapless Jamaica Scorpions on the final day of their sixth- round match here Saturday.

Resuming the morning at Sabina Park with the hosts on 123 for two in pursuit of 419 for victory, Harpy Eagles removed the last eight wickets for only 83 runs as Jamaica were dismissed for 206.

West Indies left-hander Kirk McKenzue added just one to his overnight 39 while Peat Salmon chipped in with 30, as left-arm spinner Gudakesh Motie and off-spinner Kevin Sinclair finished with identical figures of three for 32 to extend Harpy Eagles’ winning streak.

Since drawing their opening match of the campaign and losing their second, the title-holders have gone on an impressive run, thrashing West Indies Academy by 221 runs, outlasting Barbados Pride by 33 runs and hammering Windward Islands Volcanoes by 254 runs.

Guyana wasted little time in making the breakthrough when fast bowler Nial Smith uprooted Brandon King’s middle stump in the third over, after the West Indies white-ball right-hander had added just two to his overnight 13.

And the left-handed McKenzie’s 124-ball vigil ended three overs later with only two runs added to the total at 127, when he prodded forward to Motie and was taken low down at short leg by Raymond Perez.

Salmon, who faced 62 deliveries and counted four fours and a six, then tried to hold the innings together, putting on 32 for the fifth wicket with Abhijai Mansingh (17) and a further 30 for the seventh with Derval Green (19).

However, key strikes derailed that effort. Nineteen-year-old speedster Isaiah Thorne (2-30) struck twice at the start of the third over following the drinks break, going through Mansingh’s defence and bowling the right-hander before getting new batsman Romaine Morris to nick a drive at a full length delivery, to be caught behind without scoring.
And once Motie got Green to hole out to cover, the Scorpions lost their last four wickets for 17 runs, to slump to their fourth loss of the campaign.