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Stag Beer/EBFA Division One League…Soesdyke trounce Mocha; Herstelling upset Kuru Kururu
The second round of the Stag Beer sponsored East Bank Football Association division-one league got off to an exciting start yesterday at the Grove Playfield with two contrasting matches.
Soesdyke Falcons Troy Austin (#6) takes on this Mocha Champs player as his colleagues contemplate their next move.
In the feature game, Soesdyke Falcons took care of business against Mocha Champs 4-0 to move second in the points standings behind leaders Grove Hi Tech, Mocha Champs suffering their eight loss in as many matches, it was Soesdyke’s sixth win from their eight matches.
The day’s opening encounter produced a big upset as the ever improving Herstelling FC defeated Kuru Kururu Warriors 4-3 in a pulsating contest, the young Herstelling side, featuring a number of Under-17 players, coming from a goal down to record another big win.
As a matter of fact, it was bumper weekend for Under-17 player Cion Alfred who followed up his hat-trick in their Under-17 win over Soesdyke Falcons with another hat-trick, this time against the accomplished Warriors, former division-one champs on the East Bank.
It was virtually smooth sailing for the Falcons against Mocha Champs still searching for the winning formula in this league. Roger Dey sent Soesdyke ahead in the 3rd minute of the game. For a moment it seemed the margin of victory would have been a large one but Mocha did their best to put up a fight but lacked the required venom in the attacking third that would have rattled the Soesdyke defenders.
Orin Tasher converted a double (38, 56) to increase the advantage, effectively putting the game way beyond Mocha. The icing was put on the cake in the 77th minute compliments of Dwayne Dellon.
The win took Timehri to 18 points the same as Grove but the latter has a better goal difference with a game less.
The tone for an enthralling second round was set by Herstelling in the first game when they took on their much more experienced counterparts Kuru Kururu Warriors in a game that the pundits would have predicted would have gone to Warriors hands down.
But that was not to be as the Herstelling lads turned up to the party with different intentions. It was Kuru Kururu who would have struck first, Allen Oslend firing them into the lead with just six minutes on the clock.
Not contented with a one goal cushion, cognizant that Herstelling would not have been no pushovers, Kuru Kururu Warriors doubled the lead 15 minutes on when Cordell Johnson rocked the back of the nets.
Rather than allowing the momentum that the Warriors built to affect their focus, Herstelling kept on probing at Kuru Kururu and with the game 34 minutes old, Herstelling scored their first goal through O’Neil Sharp, another Under-17 player.
That goal brought back much needed energy to the Herstelling forward line and there was no turning back. Seon Alfred took over the show from there on for his side. He netted the first of his three in the 37th minute to level the scores; games on, Kuru Kururu Warriors 2, Herstelling 2.
The half time whistle sounded with the scores level and the adrenalin on both sides pumping. If one were to predict a winner, experience would have been one of the criteria used but this time it was not going to be required as youth ran away with the prize.
Just one minute into the second half Herstelling assumed the lead for the first time in the game when Alfred netted his second goal. And to show that they really meant business he blasted the back of the nets one minute later as Herstelling doubled the lead.
It was a ding dong battle as the Warriors called on every bit of experience to pull them out of trouble, they were able to pull one back in the 60th minute when Nigel Bennett inked his name on the score sheets.
While the Warriors made two changes as they tried to negate the Herstelling lads, their opponents played with an unchanged unit for the entire game.
Herstelling moved into sixth place ahead of Diamond while the Warriors remained in fifth behind Agricola.
Well, the action will only get better as the teams continue their quest for championship honours; every point will add up in this the second and final round.
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