Tal­paro RC won the At­lantic 2013 Girls crick­et ti­tle with an em­phat­ic 33-run vic­to­ry over To­ba­go's Ma­son Hall at the Queen's Park Oval yes­ter­day.With the coun­try drenched in rain yes­ter­day morn­ing, it looked high­ly un­like­ly that there would have been any crick­et but God smiled on the chil­dren and they got the op­por­tu­ni­ty to play at the Mec­ca of lo­cal crick­et.Ma­son Hall won the toss and that was their last tri­umph on the day, as every­thing went against them from that point.

They de­cid­ed to in­sert Tal­paro to take first strike and they scored 102 all out in 18.4 of their al­lot­ted 20 overs. Lead­ing the way for Tal­paro was the con­sis­tent Ali­cia Gomez who scored 16. She would lat­er re­turn with the ball to snare a wick­et and nab the play­er of the match award.The best bowlers for Ma­son Hall were Ke­l­isha Grant 3/20 and Ce­line Noel 3/12. When Ma­son Hall bat­ted they lost wick­ets at reg­u­lar in­ter­vals and were un­able to mount sig­nif­i­cant part­ner­ships. They fi­nal­ly fell for 69 in 17 overs to hand Tal­paro the com­fort­able win. Ce­line Lo­riene was their best bat­ter with 12, Sal­isha Ben­ton, a star in the se­ries for Tal­paro was the pick of the bowlers with 2/12.

SCORES

AT­LANTIC CRICK­ET

GIRLS FI­NALS

Tal­paro 102 all out (18.4) (Ali­cia Gomez 16, Ke­l­isha Grant 3/20, Ce­line Noel 3/12) vs Ma­son Hall 69 all out (17)(Celeine Lo­raine 12, Sal­isha Ben­ton 2/12)–Tal­paro won by 33 runs.