Busta Soft Shoe Football Tournament...Sparta Boss among three teams registering wins

Busta Soft Shoe Football Tournament…Sparta Boss among three teams registering wins

Apr 11, 2015 Sports

Sparta Boss, one of the teams highly favoured to capture the inaugural Busta

Regional Busta Manager Christine Kellawan meets the teams along with Guyana Beverages Inc. General manager Robert Selman and Busta official shortly before the start of play on Thursday night at the GFC ground.

Soft Shoe Football Tournament made a positive start to the campaign after registering a come-from-behind 4-2 win over a steady California Square unit on Thursday evening, at the GFC ground.
Playing in the fifth fixture, before a fair-sized crowd, the star-studded Sparta Boss side found themselves trailing 2-0 after three minutes with Nash Moe (2nd) and Vashile Cantzlaar (3rd) giving California Square a surprise lead.
However, Sparta Boss loaded with former and current national players pulled one back through Travis Grant, who dribbled one defender, before unleashing a ripper just inside the near post on the right.
The speedy Devon Millington, who netted a brace then, produced a moment of magic as he weaved past a host of defenders to place one past a stunned goalkeeper in the 28th minute to level the proceedings.
He returned one minute later to score another wonderful strike after Gregory Richardson had dribbled his way deep into the box and finding himself tracked by a defender back heeled a pass to the lurking Millington, who nonchalantly slotted home.
Sparta Boss was not finished as Richardson got into the act to fire a fierce right-footer past the

Part of the action on opening night of the Busta Soft Shoe Football Tournament which kicked off on Thursday evening at the GFC ground.

keeper to give them a 4-2 lead which lasted until the final whistle sounded.
Before the start of play, all the teams were introduced to officials from the Guyana Beverages Inc. and Busta Regional Manager Christine Kellawan.
General Manager of the Company Robert Selman then displayed his skills when he did the ceremonial kick off to signal the start of competition.
In the night’s full results:
Game-1
Ballers-6 vs Durban Street-5
Ballers scorers
Steffon Ramsay-4th, 23rd and 26th
Lyliton Ramsay-5th and 22nd
Amos Ramsay-12th
Durban Street
Leon Kennedy-8th
Jermin Gilbert-11th and 29th
Quincy Ashby-15th and 17th
Game-2
Leopold Street-3 vs Tucville-3
Leopold Scorers
Omallo Williams-6th and 23rd
Andre Sookhoo-7th
Tucville Scorers
Romello Fraser-4th
Reshawn Sandiford-11th
Raphael Edwards-26th
Game-3
Sophia-4 vs Broad Street-2
Sophia Scorers
Shemroy Arthur-2nd
Dwayne Lowe-6th, 9th and 14th
Broad Street Scorers
Ryan Jones-12th
Akeem Sam-13th
Game-4
Alexander Village-4 vs Charlestown-4
Alexander Village Scorers
Quincy Bourne-11th
Chavez Lescott-12th and 13th
Jermin Junior-25h
Charlestown
Clyde Bascom-4th and 18th
Devon Charles-17th and 26th
Game-5
Sparta Boss-4 vs California Square-2
Sparta Boss scorers
Devon Millington-28th and 29th
Gregory Richardson-30th
Travis Grant-13th
California Square Scorers
Nash Moe-2nd
VashileCantzlaar-3rd
Game-6
Holmes Street Tigerbay-1 vs Albouystown-1
Albouystown Scorer
Marlon Nedd-10th
Holmes Street Scorer
Calvin Shepherd-14th
The competition resumes tonight with six more matches at the same venue.
In the fixtures: Queen Street (Tiger Bay) tackle Cross Street; North Ruimveldt take on Globe Yard; Back Circle battle West Back Road; Bent Street engage North East La Penitence; Festival City go up against Kitty Weavers and West Front Road square off against Stevedore Housing Scheme.
Among the other sponsors on board are: Lucky Dollar, GT&T, Star Party Rentals, Nigel’s Supermarket and Mendonca Creole.