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The Belize Times
Sunday, April 25, 2010
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BDF stomp Corozal Shanaiah 8-0 to lead Caribbean Motors Cup football
The Belize Defense Force schooled Corozal Shanaiah with an 8-0 blast to lead the Caribbean Motors Cup football competition organized by the Belize Premier Football League, with 26 at the M.C.C. grounds on Sunday, April 18. Orlando “Lichy” Jimenez and Lisbey Castillo led the BDF attack, but Castillo got ‘bounced’ by the Corozal defense and Paul Nunez came off the BDF bench to take care of business. Shanaiah’s Henry Sandoval tested BDF goalie Woodrow West’s reflexes with a left foot shot which sailed over the crossbar. The visitors’ substitute goalie Eiden Williams was also having an attack of stage fright in the Corozal goal, but BDF’s Evan Mariano issued him an early pardon when he missed a shot at point blank range on a pass from U-17 player Denmark Casey. Paul Nunez made no such mistake when he connected with a pass from Gilbert Swaso to give the BDF a 1-zip lead in the 30th minute. Evan Mariano had beat Williams 5 minutes later, but Asrel Sutherland cleared away Mariano’s shot into the empty goal. The 1st half was into injury time when Evan Mariano set table for Paul Nunez to drill home a left foot shot for a 2-zip BDF lead at the half-time
break. The match deg enerated into a nightmare for the visitors in the second half that the Shanaiah squad would prefer to forget. Paul Nunez missed scoring a hat trick when his shot hit the g oalpost and Denmark Casey Jr. also found himself frustrated by the immobile crossbar which spared Williams. But the visitors’ defense could not survive the repeated bombardment and when Paul Nunez centered to an unmarked Erwin “Bird” Flores, Bird headed it in to lead 3-zip in the 65th minute. Nunez returned the favor to Evan Mariano, who also connected with a header to lead 4-nil in the 69th minute. Khalil Velasquez joined the party with a header to finish another play from Paul Nunez for a 5-zip lead in the 72nd minute. Williams was too easily led as he also headed a ball clear when David Trapp centered the ball into the goal area, but “Bird” Flores was there to head it right back in for a 6th goal in the 75th minute. Then Shaniah defender Manuel Manzanero goofed in giving up a penalty when he took down Evan Mariano hard, and BDF goalie Woodrow
West got in on the free for all, converting the penalty to make it 7-nil in the 78th minute. Gilbert “Hoof ” Swaso put his stamp of approval on the proceedings with an 8th goal in the 86th minute to complete the rout. The San Pedro Sea Dogs drilled Shanaiah 2-zip in front of their home fans at the Ricalde Stadium in Corozal last Wednesday night. Francisco Norales scored the Sea Dogs’ winning goal in the 25th minute and Kenny Witzil sealed the win with a 2nd goal in the 38th minute. It has not been all peaches and cream for the BDF who tasted the bitter pill of defeat for the first time when they fell 2-0 to Hankook Verdes at the Norman Broaster Stadium in San Ignacio last Wednesday night. Daniel Jimenez scored the winning goal in the 3rd minute of play and Marlon Meza made doubly sure of the win with a 2nd goal in the 6th minute. Verdes came up empty when they visited the Paradise Freedom Fighters at the Toledo Union Field in Punta Gorda on Sunday, while Delroy Flores delighted the Toledo fans with the winning goal in the 85th minute. The Freedom Fighters posted their 5th win over Georgetown Ibayani 2-1
at the Michael Ashcroft Stadium last Wednesday night. Luis Torres drew first blood for Ibayani in the 18th minute of play, then PG’s Wilmer Garcia drove in the equalizer in the 25th minute to tie the game at a 1-1 draw up to the half time break. Again Delroy Flores delivered the winning goal in the 83rd minute. Ibayani bounced back as they toasted BRC Blaze 2-zip at the Michael Ashcroft Stadium last Saturday night. Karim Peters scored the winning goal on a penalty conversion in the 30th minute and Deon Burgess sealed the win with a 2nd goal in the 90th minute. FC Belize is No. 2 in the league rankings with 26 pts, though it hardly looked that way as they battled to a 1-1 draw with the San Pedro Sea Dogs at the Ambergris Stadium on Sunday. Olvin Serano drew first blood for the Sea Dogs in the 13th minute of play and the game was about to go into injury time when Jerome “Jaro” James converted a penalty for the 1-1 draw, their 2nd of the competition FC Belize had posted their 8th win 3-0 over BRC Blaze at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium last Wednesday night, on strikes by Delroy in the 35th minute, Jerome Archer in the 58th minute and penalty conversion by Jaro James in injury time.