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The Belize Times
sunday, November 22, 2009
Belize #1 Sports Page
Kraal Road FC leads Belize Bank Superleague football playoffs
Kraal Road FC is No.1 in the first week of the Belize Bank Superleague football playoffs, spanking Cayo South United of Roaring Creek 2-0 at the M.C.C. garden on Sunday afternoon. Tex Mar United, Placencia Assassins and San Felipe Bacelona all posted 1-0 wins in their first outings of the playoffs. Delroy “T hinman” Andrews spearheaded the Kraal Road offensive with the help of wingers Whitfield
Patnett and Raymond “Killa” Gentle and midfielders Mark Grant, Shawn Thur ton and Tyrone “T-bone” Muschamp. Ricky Tamai, Dion Frazer and Darryl Reyes led the Cayo South attack, but made little impression on the Kraal Road defense: Albert Thurton, Denroy Lopez and Jarret Davis. Cayo’s midfield Edmund “Buzzard” Pandy, Francis Budna, Dion Guzman and Roy Vernon found themselves pushed
back to help their defenders Wilhelm “Locho” Coye, Ronaldo Alvarez and Roy Garbutt, while Cayo South’s keeper Jeremy Twist was the man of the hour, putting his body on the line to keep the city squad scoreless up to the half time break. But there was nothing Twist could do in the 2nd half when he found himself whip-sawed by an attack by Tyrone Muschamp on the right, who then crossed the ball to Delroy Andrews on the left for the finish as the City boys took a 1-0 lead in the 49th minute. Tamai and Darryl Reyes tried to equalize the score but made no impression on the Kraal Road keeper Linares. Cayo brought in ‘fresh horses’: Paulie Bradley for Roy Vernon, Ryan Stevens for Francis Budna and Scott Casey for Ricky Tamai, but all the King’s horse and all the King’s men could not put it together for the Cayo visitors. The game was almost over when Andrews side-stepped Locho Coye to place a shot to the left corner of the net, and Twist simply could not twist himself into position to make the save as Kraal Road celebrated a 2-0 win at the long whistle. In Hattieville, San Felipe
Barcelona drilled Hattieville F.C. 1-zip on a strike by Damien Ku in the 8th minute. In Placencia, the Assassins gave the home town fans their money’s worth with a 1-0 win over the defending champs, Valley Renaissance on a strike by Jason Westby in the 84th minute. In Punta Gorda Town, the 2007 Superleague champs Tex Mar United avenged the Paradise Freedom Fighters’ earlier insolence with a 1-0 win at the Toledo Union field, on a strike by Dion Burgess in the 78th minute.
Gwen Liz girls lead CSSSA basketball 4-0
Undefeated national champs, the Gwen Lizarraga High School girls lead the Belize City secondary schools basketball competition with 4 wins, blowing away the St. Catherine Academy girls 43-8 on Friday night, while the Anglican Cathedral College girls battled to a 17-7 win over the Nazarene High School girls in the nightcap. Glenda Torres led the Gwen Liz girls with 29 pts, while Sheryn Nunez added 8 pts and Candice Neal tossed in 5 pts. Deandra Coote scored from the charity stripe. SCA’s Kursha Pollard led with 7pts, while Ashley Pelayo scored 1pt from the charity stripe. Rashawn Perteau led the ACC girls’ attack with 6pts, while Shaniqua Felix and Shantell Lambey scored 3pts each and Gisely Rosales and Camisha Ariola added a bucket each. Terylee Hamilton led the Nazarene High girls with 4 pts.