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Courts Pee Wee Football Competition…Semi-final lineup decided
North Georgetown, Tucville, West Ruimveldt and Marian Academy are the four teams advancing to the semifinal stage come next week following victories in quarter-final action of this year’s Courts Pee Wee Football Competition which is being organsied by Petra Organisation and played, at the Thirst Park ground.
They gained victories over St. Gabriel’s, Redeemer, Ketley and St. Margret’s respectively which means that the four losers will compete for fifth to eighth positions.
The goal that won it for Tucville against Redeemer Primary School yesterday.
Also recording victories yesterday in the other half of the competition were Sophia, F.E. Pollard, St. Pius and the Enterprise teams. They will now battle for the ninth to twelfth positions. The teams that they defeated were South Ruimveldt, St. Sidwells and Success and they along with Green Acres who failed to show will now clash for 13th to 16th positions.
The tournament’s top scorer Simeon Hackett of Tucville led his team to one of the most intriguing victories contested yesterday. His side defeated Redeemer 2 – 1 on penalty kicks after being deadlocked 1 – 1 at full time and extra time.
Hackett equalized in the 18th minute after Tucville trailed from the eighth minute when Redeemer’s Shemar Murray scored. In the penalty shootout Hackett defended the uprights and made two good saves, while, along with his teammate Deandre Linton scored.
The Marian Academy / St. Margaret’s clash ended 1 – 0 in favour of the former with Diarra Thomas scoring in the ninth minute.
West Ruimveldt had two goals which were scored by Anton Porter (19th) and Victor Brown (21st) while Ketley could only manage one goal which was scored by Jahim Massiah in the 17th minute.
The other quarterfinal game was dominated by North Georgetown who scored five goals against the St. Gabriel’s team that had none. Tyrese Prescott led with a double (18th, 29th), while his teammate Laman Lord, Tyriq Saunders and Joshua Denny scored a goal each.
In other results, St. Pius thrashed Success 5 – 0 as Marcus Wilson led the way with a hat-trick. He scored in the 1st, 16th and 25th minutes, while he received support from Beveney McGarrel and Shemar Horshan who both scored in the second half.
Also scoring a hat-trick was Lande Thompson (5th, 10th, and 17th) of F.E. Pollard, who, along with Meshack Softleigh accounted for their team’s four goals against St. Sidwell’s.
A helmet trick from James Freeman (4th, 10th, 21st, and 34th) was more than enough to hold off the fighting South Ruimveldt who had both their goals scored by Owen Arthur.
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