A fine unfinished 131-run, fourth-wicket stand between skipper Denish Ramdin and Guyana’s Assad Fudadin spurred the West Indies under-19 side to a seven-wicket victory over the University of the West Indies (UWI) yesterday at the ARG in the Red Stripe Bowl regional one-day cricket competition.

The pair joined forces with their team in trouble on 30-3 and saw them to 166-3 in 33.4 overs; replying to the 165 all out in 42.2 overs made by the Phillo Wallace-led UWI side.

Ramdin hit 11 fours from 89 balls in his accomplished 77, while the left-handed Fudadin reached the boundary fours times and cleared it once in his solid 53 to hand the UWI their third straight defeat.

Bajan pacer Jason Bennett give his team some early hope by sending back Xavier Marshall (11) caught behind at 12-1 and then took the important scalp of first-class batsman and the competition’s lone centurion Lendl Simmons to leave the score on 30-3.

After Jason Parris was removed by Ryan Nurse for a duck at 18-2, Bennett produced a nasty lifting delivery which Simmons (16) could only fend to gully.

That was to be the last success for the UWI team as Ramdin and Fudadin delighted the handfull of spectators with some enterprising batting on the fast outfield in sunny conditions.

Bennett ended with 2-35 for UWI who lost the powerful Wallace caught hooking at the lively Ravi Rampaul at 5-1 in the first over and never recovered.

Jason Haynes batted well for 41 with four fours and a six from 71 balls while Maurice Clarke who hit five fours in 32 from 45 balls and Keith Hibbert, whose 28 included three fours from 60 balls, got starts but failed to go on.

Ryan Nurse hit two fours and six from just 17 balls in his 17 but the UWI batsmen were never allowed to score freely towards the end.

Rampaul again bowled with hostility on a track with life to end with 3-17. He got support from Jonathan Agustus who had 2-3 with his off-spin to give the West Indies under-19 side their first victory.

Antigua and Barbuda and Guyana are joint points leaders with eight points from two games while the West Indies under-19 side is next with six points.

Defending champions Barbados are on five points from two matches, while the UWI are in the cellar on three points without a win from three games.