Noble House Goals Galore Indoor Hockey Championships open

Jul 22, 2009 Sports

The curtains rose Monday night for the first performance of this year’s Noble House Goals Galore Hockey championships with newcomers Old Fort ‘B’ men and Hikers ‘B’ both making their debuts in the tournament.

Aderemi Simon

Orland Semple

In keeping with the tournament’s handicapped rule, Old Fort began the game with 2 goals while Hikers started with 4 to their name. Despite the handicap, Old Fort proved too fast for the young Hikers ladies pulling off the 7-4 victory. The Hikers ladies ‘A’ side suffered a similar fate when matched up against the Flora GCC Tigers in the same second division pool. With the teams started dead even at zero apiece, GCC Captain Sonia Jardine stamped her authority on the game by driving home the only two goals of the game, both in the first half.

In the other second division pool, the Hikers ‘B’ men out gunned the Western Dragons ‘B’ to pull off a 5-1 win. The Hikers enjoyed a 2 goal advantage at the beginning of the game and Michael Harding, Akeem Thompson and Rayon Brandsford added one each to carry their tally to 5 in comparison to the lone goal for the Dragons scored by Donwes Austin.

GCC ‘B’ clashed with the Hikers’ A’ in the opening match of the first division competition later in the evening with the Bourda boys enjoying a 2 goal handicap, beginning on +3 to the Hikers +1. While the junior GCC men could be praised for their effort, the quality of the Hikers was evident as they tightened the noose as the game progressed to pull off the 9-6 win. Robert France and midfield maestro Jerry Bell were the top scorers for the Hikers, each with a hat-trick while Alex Gouveia and Devin Munroe added one each. Shaka Gill, Philip Fernandes and Andrew Xavier were the scorers for GCC.

Jason DeSantos

Defending first division champions Old Fort ‘A’ then steamrolled the Western Dragons making up a 5 goal handicap deficit in short time before pulling off the 11-8 win. National strikers Aderemi Simon and Jason DeSantos registered four goals each while Chris Low-Koan added a double and Dwight Sullivan a lone strike all for Old Fort.

In the final match of the evening, the Carib Degenerates seemed headed for an upset victory over the in-form GCC ‘A’ as Timothy Jonas scored in the 4th minute to extend the 7-0 handicap for the Degenerates by one more.

GCC eventually found their footing in the 13th minute and never looked back as Orland Semple topped the night’s scorers by pouring 7 goals while Kevin Spencer and Devin Hooper added 3 each to pull off the 13 – 9 win. Jonas would score his, and the team’s second in the 27th minute for the Degenerates.

Matches continue today from 5:30pm with defending second division champions the Flora GCC Spartans taking on the Western Dragons B.