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Woodpecker Products Women’s First Division Hockey League
The Old Fort Shooting Stars pulled off their first win of the Woodpecker Products Women’s
Marzana Fiedtkou (with ball) controls the ball in attack during their encounter against Woodpecker Hikers.
First Division Hockey League with a 2-1 victory over new-comers the GCC Spartans.
While the match seemed fairly even in the opening minutes, a hard hit into the Spartans defensive area met the stick of Sulika Treurniet and deflected to find goalkeeper Jessica Mittleholtzer going the wrong way.
Both Mittleholtzer for Spartans and Sarafina Phillips for Old Fort were solid in goal for their respective teams throughout the match.
In her quest to equalize, the Spartans midfielder Princessa Wilkie, who had pushed higher into attack, bullied her way into the Old Fort circle and sent her shot past Phillips into the goal on the right post.
Wilkie’s goal with ten minutes remaining breathed new life into the match as both teams pressed forward relentlessly in search of the winning goal.
Old Fort received a penalty corner just as time expired, leaving the Spartans to make one more defensive play.
Minsodia Culpepper’s hard push, however, was too much for the Spartans and gave jubilant Old Fort victory with no time remaining on the clock.
In the second match of the week, sisters Sonia Jardine and Kerensa Fernandes put all doubts to rest as to which was the top side in the competition.
Coming off a 10-0 thrashing of Old Fort and a 7-0 win over the Spartans, the Pizza Hut GCC ladies inflicted a 6-0 beating on the Woodpecker Hikers with all goals being scored by the sisters.
After a scoreless ten minutes of play, Jardine decided she had enough and sent a powerful blast into the Hikers goal after receiving a pass from Fernandes on the right.
Pizza Hut GCC Trisha Woodroffe seen during one of her offensive expedition against Woodpecker Hikers.
Less than one minute later, Jardine scored her second high into the net when she pounced on a Hikers defensive fumble, eliminated the sweeper and unleashed her shot.
Jardine would score once more before the half and remained the only goal scorer of the match in the 36th minute when she scored her fourth goal and the first of the second half.
Sister Kerensa Fernandes at that point chose to get in the act as she received a cross from Gabriella Xavier on the left wing to slam in her first goal and her team’s fifth in the 37th minute.
Fernandes blasted home the final goal of the match less than one minute later to wrap up another solid showing by the Pizza Hut ladies.
Farfan & Mendes Men’s First Division Hockey League
Sixteen year old Tivesard Garnett playing for Pepsi Hikers scored his first goal on debut in the Farfan & Mendes Men’s First Division League and he could not have chosen a more opportune time to shine.
With the pre-match favourites, unbeaten Pepsi Hikers facing cellar-dwellers Saints HC in their first round clash, one would have expected a one-sided affair.
Saints, however, seemed to have prepared themselves well for the challenge and made a herculean effort to almost see them to their first win of the competition.
Marshalled by team-leader and national coach Robert Fernandes in central defence, Saints managed to keep the contest goalless at halftime.
Despite the Hikers enjoying the greater share of possession and missing a few close chances, Saints produced several moments of good hockey to keep themselves in contention.
The Hikers finally made their breakthrough, and not a moment too soon, when Garnett controlled a deflected ball in the scoring circle and released a flick at net, before the Saints goalkeeper could react.
The lone goal of the match resulted in the Pepsi Hikers completing the first round undefeated and secure the top position in the pool going into the second round.
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