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GT&T Indoor Hockey Championships…Old Fort, Spartans, GCC among early winners

Oct 27, 2012 Sports

 

 

No sooner had the curtain raised for the GT&T National Indoor Championships which opened on Wednesday evening at the National Gymnasium the Spartans were on the score sheet through an Ashley DeGroot penalty corner.
The well executed routine in just the second minute of play signaled trouble for newcomers Hikers Innovation in the opening all-female duel.
Deceptive Innovation striker Macaela Harding, however, surprised the Spartans by slotting home an equalizer six minutes later on a counter-attack.
Although the halftime whistle found the game dead even at one goal apiece, the second half belonged to the Spartans as they steam-rolled Innovation by drilling home five more unanswered goals.
Ashley DeGroot and Aliyah Gordon both finished with doubles for the Spartans, while Samantha Fernandes and Sandy Ramnarine added one each.
The men took centre stage in the second match featuring a First Division clash between Old Fort and the Hikers.  The game began at lightning speed in typical fashion of the two consummate rivals and within seven minutes of play, prolific goal scorer for Old Fort, Ascofu Simon rattled the backboards with a powerful strike.  John Abrahams added a second for Old Fort as the Hikers struggled to regain their footing.
After a scoreless first half for the Hikers, young Aroydy Branford managed to make his mark on the game with a powerful penalty corner flick to pull his side the Hikers back within one.  Time ran out on the Hikers, however, as the two early Old Fort goals were enough to seal the 2-1 victory.
Young Parmanand Dindial drew the loudest cheer of the night for his goal for Saints against tournament favourite Hikers in their men’s second division clash.
By this time the well-rehearsed Hikers had already put the game beyond the reach of Saints with goals from Aroydy Branford, Robert Brummel, Michael Harding and Colonel Heywood.  The second half would see one more for the Hikers by Michael Harding to take the final score to 5-1.
The GCC second division side led by a Steven Xavier hat-trick cruised past Old Fort by 6 goals to 3.  Eric Hing, Mark Sargeant and Captain Peter DeGroot added one each for the victors while Dwight McCalman produced a double for Old Fort with teammate Shaquille Thomas adding a single.
The final match of the evening saw the Hikers First Division side face-off against GCC in the most anticipated duel of the day’s schedule.
With exciting hockey from end-to-end, GCC managed only to straddle the Hikers two goals of the match with one each of their own to produce a dead heat of 2-2 at the final whistle.
GCC’s Kevin Spencer was first on the score sheet in the 6th minute but Robert France and Aroydy Branford, who competed in both divisions, managed to answer with one each for a 2-1 first half score.
GCC’s Orland Semple would even the game five minutes into the second half to see the game through to an even final score.
Matches continued last evening at the same venue and will run until Sunday when the finals for all four divisions will be contested from 16:00 hours.

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