SAGICOR UWI travelled down Cave Hill, through Bridgetown and into Beckles Road to teach Caribbean Lumber YMPC a simple lesson yesterday – eight plus one is nine.

Unstoppable and unflappable, the tertiary students are showing all and sundry the good things that are happening on the "hill".

Yesterday, they maintained an amazing unbeaten streak in the Sagicor General Super Cup, completing a ninth successive victory with a sense of efficiency to claim a place in the final.

Their semi-final showdown with YMPC was competitive for some time, but in the end UWI, fielding three imports from other Campuses, made light work of a target of 202.

They achieved a six-wicket victory with 5.1 overs intact on the back of a workmanlike unbeaten 81 from Nekoli Parris and his successive important partnerships with Floyd Reifer, Romel Currency and newcomer Chadwick Walton.

YMPC, by way of their important Test caps, Dwayne Smith and Fidel Edwards, claimed two early wickets, but UWI, defiant and later dominating, pulled through thanks to the solid Parris, who faced 119 balls over his match-winning effort and his support cast.

The experienced Reifer contributed 39 and helped Parris to add 97 for the third wicket that put UWI slightly ahead and they never looked back when Parris and Currency were putting on 45.

Walton, a no-nonsense customer who is enrolled at the Mona Campus in Jamaica and is part of the Combined Campuses and Colleges squad preparing for the forthcoming KFC Cup, hastened victory with an unbeaten 29 off 18 balls that included a few bold strokes.

UWI, playing in only their second season of top flight cricket, will have a date with Carib Carlton in the grand final on November 3 at their 3Ws Oval home turf.

"This was about teamwork. The guys stuck to the game plan. We wanted someone to come 80 not out and Nekoli Parris did that and the rest of the guys batted around him," victorious captain Shirley Clarke said.

"Our team is not a team to panic. During the course of the season, sometimes were struggling worse than the position we were in today.

"We have remained focused. We play one game at a time. That has done it for us for the whole season."

YMPC, choosing to bat first in a match that was watched by one of the best crowds of the season, achieved a competitive total despite a significant score from any of their batsmen.

Captain Dwayne Smith, batting as low as No. 7, threatened to do something special, blasting four fours on the way to a quickfire 38 off 31 balls, but his dismissal came at vital time and probably cost YMPC about 25 runs.

With just three bowlers to come, Smith fell to a catch at long-off in the 40th over.

Before he entertained, Matthew King (34) at the top of the order and Ryan Wiggins (37) in the middle were YMPC's main run-scorers and Steven Blackett at No. 8 weighed in with 31.

UWI depended on their spinners Kavesh Kantasingh and Ramnarine Chattergoon to keep things in check at a vital stage and fast bowler Jason Bennett also played a key role in nine overs in which he took two for 24.

YMPC skipper Smith pointed to the shortcomings of his team in the field as the main reasons for the defeat.

"We made a lot of mistakes. We dropped a lot of half-chances and we didn't bowl properly. We didn't bowl the right lengths. We were all over the shop," he said.