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YMCA and Swag through to men’s final, Superstars and Speightland contest women’s crown
Donovan Francis of Swag
PPP/C $1m Linden ‘One Guyana’ Beach Football
Kaieteur Sports – The men’s and women’s final in the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic ‘One Guyana’ Linden Beach Football Championships were decided on Saturday night as a large crowd witnessed the quarterfinals and semifinals among the men and the semifinals for the females which were played in the compound of the party’s office in Industrial Area in Linden.
At the conclusion of those clashes YMCA and Swag will contest the men’s final and Superstars girls will match skills with Speightland for the women’s crown to be played next Saturday in Linden.
Superstars first made it to the women’s final by beating Dynamo 2-1 with their goals coming from Naomi Williams and Patsy Walker for the victory.
Their opponents in the final are Speightland who blasted their way past a hapless Nurses side with National Under20 football player Sheneesa Cornelius hitting the nets four times as Kyandi Smith got a brace, with Danacia Williams, Nikita Wayne and Lakeisha Pearson getting the other goals.
For the Nurses their goals were recorded by Natasha Headley and Janella Gildery.
Swag would qualify for the final after taking care of Young Gunners 2-0 in a quarterfinals game after Donovan Francis got both goals and then facing them in the semifinal where the result favoured them again by a 4-2 margin.
Francis got another double and Colwyn Drakes emulated him with two goals also for the Swag men. The goals for Young Gunners were registered by Devante Tappin.
YMCA pulled out the stops and won 5-3 against R9 in their other semifinal clash of the night.
Kevin Gittens and Jamal Bentick were responsible for the win by the YMCA side with both scoring twice.
Jahu Regis and Jona Simmons netted the goals for the R9 unit.
In another results from an earlier match, R9 gained a solid 4-0 victory against Kara Kara United as goals were scored by Julian Regis, Tasha Reich, Andre Mayers and Jona Simmons.
On Saturday the finals will be contested at the compound of the PPP/C Office in Mackenzie, Linden.
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