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Christianburg/Wismar cruise to 3-1 win over Kwakwani
Digicel Nationwide Schools Football tourney
By Rawle Welch
Despite a more purposeful performance in the second period, hosts Kwakwani Secondary much to the disappointment of their vociferous supporters exited the Second Edition of the Digicel Nationwide Schools Football Competition after falling to Christianburg / Wismar by a 3-1 margin on Saturday.
Action in the clash between Christianburg / Wismar and Kwakwani on Saturday in Kwakwani.
Watched by a fair-sized supportive crowd, the hosts, a community that is known to produce outstanding national players in Dion Roberts and Royston Hetemyer appeared nervous at the start and as early as the 14th minute fell behind compliments of some neat exchanges between three opposing players that eventually concluded with the pint-sized Joshawn Moore dinking a wonderful shot over goalkeeper Josh Parvatan’s head.
Bouyed by their early success, Christianburg / Wismar attacked with menace, especially the duo of Moore and Allan Halley and it took some robust defending to deny them more goals.
However, Christianburg / Wismar, clearly the superior team technically, continued to exhibit the skill and wizardry that will certainly be a real threat to any other team in the competition and added another goal through the ever present Moore, who found himself unmarked in the penalty area after smartly trapping a perfectly weighed cross from the right flank and swiveled nicely, before cracking a fiercely struck right-footer past Parvatan.
The victorious Christianburg / Wismar Secondary School pose for a photo op following their win over Kwakwani last Saturday.
That made it 2-0 and clearly had the home team and its band of supporters dumbstruck.
With more and more residents entering the Park to urge on the home team, the visitors from Linden were not intimidated and struck again when Halley collected a clever pass from the right side, weaved past two defenders, before calmly slotting the ball home from close range in the 34th minute of play.
That goal, though, it came in the opening period seemed to knock the wind out of the Kwakwani players, or so it seemed, but the introduction of Shameer Viverious immediately injected some life into the team and he was the life line.
Viverious instantly showed his class, dissecting players at will in one instance only to see his powerful strike produce a magnificent save from the competent Yannick Simmons, who tipped his swerving effort over the crossbar for a corner.
Even though it did not change the scoreline, the partisan crowd saw some hope and applauded Viverious.
It was the first real show of force from the hosts and it created a sign of hope for the second half after the half time whistle sounded with Christianburg / Wismar holding a comfortable 3-0 lead.
The resumption saw a more determined effort from Kwakwani and it took some resolute defending to deny Viverious, who looked imperious in his forays.
His relentless attacks eventually bore fruit when he found enough space inside the 18-yard box after receiving a pass from the middle and unleashed a rasping drive that skimmed the finger tips of Simmons, before landing safely into the back of the goal.
It was a shot of pace and power and a fitting result for a player that worked tirelessly to get his team back into the game.
It, however, was a case of a little too late as the visitors shut shop and eased over the line without any more alarms.
They now move on into the next round.
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