Hillview Col­lege stu­dents showed why they are the school to beat in T&T, af­ter record­ing a third suc­ces­sive Pow­er­Gen T20 ti­tle by de­feat­ing Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege, Ch­agua­nas at the Bri­an Lara Crick­et Acad­e­my in Toru­ba, San Fer­nan­do on Fri­day night.

Chas­ing just 101 runs for vic­to­ry, Hillview made it look like a moun­tain to climb and in the end, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege end­ed on 87/8 giv­ing Hillview vic­to­ry by 13 runs.

The strong Hillview bowl­ing at­tack was al­ways go­ing to be a ma­jor threat to the Pre­sen­ta­tion team. JP Bar­rie bowl­ing at good pace trou­bled the ear­ly bats­men and lat­er on, skip­per Navin Be­daisee came in­to his own, bowl­ing beau­ti­ful­ly to end with 2/9 off his four overs. The on­ly Pre­sen­ta­tion play­er to show re­sis­tance was fast bowler Jay­den Seales who smacked 30 be­fore he was dis­missed by Seales.

When the fi­nal wick­et fell, Hillview com­plet­ed the dou­ble of league and In­ter­col for the sec­ond suc­ces­sive year.

Bat­ting first, Hillview lost ear­ly wick­ets and this crip­pled their ef­fort in the pow­er­play. A lot de­pend­ed on skip­per Navin Be­daisee and when he left the wheels fell off the cart.

West In­dies Un­der-19 play­er Kirstan Kallicha­ran then took con­trol of the mid­dle off the in­nings. The lit­tle right-han­der played the sit­u­a­tion well and was keen on ro­tat­ing the strike. While he fought, it was the lone fight. He did not get the re­quired sup­port and when he left for 48 the oth­ers could not car­ry the score be­yond 100. In the end, Hillview closed on 100/9. The star of the show for Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege was West In­dies Un­der-19 play­er Matthew Patrick grabbed 4/19 with his off-spin, while Isa­iah Ali took 2/21 and Joel Suther­land 2/30.

POW­ER­GEN IN­TER­COL SCORES

At BLCA: Hillview Col­lege 100/9 (20) (Kirstan Kallicha­ran 48, Matthew Patrick 4/19, Isa­iah Ali 2/21, Joel Suther­land 2/30) vs Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege 87/8 (20) (Jay­den Sealeas 30, Navin Be­daisee 2/9) - Hillview Col­lege won by 13 runs.