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CFU U-17 WCQ… Junior Jaguars club BVI 13-0; T&T beat Suriname 3-1
Guyana’s Under-17 Junior Jaguars rebounded from their opening 3-1 loss to Suriname on Tuesday at the Hasely Crawford Stadium in the Capital of Trinidad and Tobago to club the British Virgin Islands 13-0 in their second game of the Caribbean Football Union / CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying competition on Thursday afternoon at the Ato Boldon Stadium.
Led by their leading marksman, Franklyn Parks who blasted the nets on five occasions, the young Guyanese earned their first points in this group which will see only the winner advancing to the CONCACAF round of qualifying.
Cementing their claim for that spot was home team Trinidad and Tobago which defeated Suriname 3-1 in the feature game of the double header card.
Guyana’s goal scorers from left; Franklyn Parks, Steffon Enoe,
Jermaine Fletcher, Kareem Knights and Mark Wrong.
After T&T demolished the BVI in their first game 23-0, the Junior Jaguars sensed that their prey were already wounded by the home team so they {Guyana} went for the kill without any wavering thoughts.
Their intentions of going for a huge win were recognized seven (7) minutes into the game when Kareem Knights netted the first of his double. Thereafter it was a steady trek back to the middle for the BVI to spot the ball for the restart of proceedings.
As witnessed in the BVI’s game against the Twin Island Republic, they are a far way off the standard of the other teams in this group, so far conceding 36 goals; that tally is likely to increase when they take on Suriname in their final game today at the Hasely Crawford Stadium with Guyana tangling with T&T in the main event.
The buzz and desire to sink their opponents as deep as they could was evident in the positive and bubbling body language of the young Guyanese.
Forward Franklyn Parks, who comes from a family of footballers, his older siblings Elroy and Daxton no strange names to Guyana’s football, passing on the standard to the younger Franklyn who has proved his worth already for Guyana at this level.
Parks in tandem with his Captain, the short but speedy Jermaine Fletcher, who recorded a helmet-trick, combined to ravage the BVI’s defence, the two accounting for 9 of Guyana’s 13 goals.
Following the opening goal off the boot of Knights, there was some amount of resistance by the BVI up until the 23rd minute when Fletcher took matters into his own hands as he scored the next three goals himself; hitting the network in the 26th and 28th minute also.
Fletcher’s fourth was netted in the 59th minute. Mark Wrong joined the party with a goal of his own in the 30th minute before Parks opened his account four (4) minutes later, Guyana’s 6th of the half.
When the half time whistle was sounded by St. Lucian Referee Canaan St. Catherine, the score read Guyana 6, BVI 0. Like against Trinidad who were leading the BVI 10-0 at half time of their game, the young Guyanese turned up the pressure in the final 45 minutes. The BVI did mount quite a few raids on the Guyanese defence but solid defending of their territory by the Junior Jaguars kept their enemy at bay.
Parks opened proceedings, goal wise in the second half when he breached the BVI’s defence and goalkeeper Akeem Pope four minutes on and his effort was followed by Steffon Enoe’s first goal in the 58th minute and one minute later Captain Fletcher achieved his helmet-trick; Guyana increasing the lead to 9-0.
Parks was again in the limelight in the 68th minute; Knights completed his brace in the 76th minute with the score reading 11-0, Guyana.
As the minutes ticked away and the dejected faces of the BVI players became more and more evident, the job of the young Guyanese was not over just yet.
Parks ensured that the advantage was further increased by two goals as he inked his name on the score sheets in the 87th and 89th minute, {taking his tally to 7 in two games} handing Guyana a comprehensive 13-0 win and three points to be level with Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago heading the table with 6 from their two wins while the BVI languishes at the bottom without a point.
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