New Hope and Enfield captured the All-Island All-Age and Primary/Jamaica National (JN) Championships following victories over Discovery Bay and Orange Bay, respectively, at Melbourne Oval last Thursday.

In the Primary schools' final, Enfield of Westmoreland, led by a superb 100 from Ricardo Barnes defeated Orange Bay by 116 runs.

Barnes, whose knock included 12 fours, led his team to 189-9 from their allotted 20 overs. Jerome Gibbs, 3-30, and Leroy Shaw, 3-33, were the main wicket-takers for Orange Bay. Barnes then took 5-13 as Orange Bay were bowled out for 73. Howard Daley, 22, was the leading run scorer for the losers. Barnes was named Most Valuable Player of the final.

In the All-age final, man-of-the-match, Ojay Fraser scored a brilliant 93 to lead New Hope to 180 all out from their allotted 35 overs. Fraser received support from Rohan Ferguson, 25, against Discovery Bay's Lashawn Campbell, 5-22. In their reply, Discovery Bay were skittled-out for 100 in 22.2 overs.

Percival Lawrence (2-12) and Romal Lewis (3-44) were the leading wicket takers for the winners. Rico Marshall (12) and Marvin Greeves (12) were the top run-getters for Discovery Bay.

Grantley Reid, coach of New Hope All-Age said he was delighted with his team's performance.

"It is always a good feeling to win a championship, although we are accustomed to winning this competition," said Reid. New Hope, who went into the competition as defending cham-pions, are now seven-time winners of the competition.

"It wasn't a difficult final for us because we worked very hard and this has paid off for us," Reid added.