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Apr 13, 2012 Sports
The inaugural East West Entertainment 5-a-side football fiesta is set to continue tomorrow at Hopetown Ground, West Coast Berbice from 18:30hrs.
Eight of the 16 teams in the competition will be on show as they seek top honors, those on show today will be New Amsterdam United ‘A’, Courtland United, Manchester ‘B’, Courtland Invaders, New Amsterdam United ‘B’, Manchester ‘A’, TBN and Unknowns. Matches will be played for 40 minutes.
Courtland Invaders will try to invade NA United ‘A’ in the first match setting an exciting atmosphere for the remainder of the evening. Manchester ‘B’ will next face Courtland United, NA United ‘B’ oppose Manchester ‘A’ while Unknown engage TBN in the other matches slated.
A top prize of $100,000 is up for grabs with $50,000, $25,000 and $10, 000 set aside for 2nd to 4th place. Also to be rewarded is the highest goal scorer of the competition which commenced on Easter Sunday at the Rosignol Tarmac.
In those opening matches, Hopetown ‘B’, Hopetown ‘A’, Young Ballers and No. 5 Bay were all winners. Romel Campbell netted a brace (8, 15) that propelled Hopetown ‘B’ to an exciting 2-1 win over Bus Drive.
Hopetown ‘A’ romped to an east 2-0 triupmh over Ithaca Bay. Young Ballers edged Rosignol ‘B’ by the odd goal in three. Travis Edwards opened the scoring account in the 8th minute with the second added by Trsydel Allen in the 19th minute. Rosignol ‘B’ got their consolation goal off the boot of Shawn Brutus in the 20th minute.
No. 5 Bay crushed Rosignol 4-1 in the final match. Orwin Johnson (5, 12), Arthley Bailey (9), and Stayan Frank (15) were the players on target for the winners. Delroy Fraser netted the lone effort for Rosignol ‘A’. The final is slated for May 5.
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