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GUERNSEY return to the island today with a 100% record from the three-game series against Scottish Academy. Yesterday, they concluded the tour with a five-wicket victory chasing a target of 175.

Jeremy Frith took four wickets and Andre van Rooyen three.

The previous day Dave Hearse's tourists looking dead and buried before showing real character to take the second match after the Scots were cruising at 110 for two and with 34 overs remaining to get 202.

Stand-in captain Stuart Le Prevost was happy with his team's spirited performance at the Grange Club in Edinburgh.

'I'm very pleased,' said the Cobo man.

'It was a spinners' track and it was lucky we had three of them.

'The fielding was more spirited after 20 overs and this carried us home.'

Earlier in the day, Le Prevost had won the toss and decided to bat. His team started well but the batsmen were guilty of getting starts and not carrying on to get big scores.

Tim Duke and Matt Oliver opened and their positive approach quickly moved the score to 35 when, in the seventh over, Oliver a short ball to the wicket-keeper Hislop.

Jeremy Frith came in and he and Duke carried on in a positive mode.

Both batmen looked to be in the mood for a large score, but they both got themselves out in the twenties.

Le Prevost went for 17 and Richard Veillard, Andre van Rooyen and Divan van den Heever all went cheaply and Guernsey were struggling at 138 for seven.

At that point Rich joined Biggins at the crease and together they lifted their side out of the mire.

Sensible batting, coupled with some good running between the wickets, lifted their side out of the mire.

Their partnership came to an end when Rich was given out caught behind off the bowling of Gordon Drummond.

The Cobo man was clearly not happy with the decision as Drummond celebrated his fifth wicket and the thick-set seamer went on to take six wickets for just 15 runs off his 10 overs, as he bowled a good line and length at a nice pace.

Chasing 202 to win, the Scots lost their first wicket with 11 runs on the board, Frith hanging on to a great catch diving at first slip off the bowling of van Rooyen.

But the home side proceeded to take the game away from Guernsey as opener Gregor Maiden and Omer Hussain took a liking to Guernsey's bowling.

Together they added 80 and the game was heading their way until the spin of Rich and Frith was brought into the attack.

Hussain was well caught and bowled by Frith in his third over and this proved to be the impetus Guernsey needed.

Maiden was next to go as he edged one from Firth to Oliver, one short of his 50 and he was closely followed by Qasim Sheikh, who went for six.

With Stuart Gilmour, who had batted so well the day before, now at the crease, the home team looked like that they might still be able to win the match.

But the tail failed to offer any support and the game was firmly in the visitors' hands when Gilmour was caught and bowled by Aaron Scoones.

Number 11 Craig Anderson followed two balls later.