BENT Street pulled out a marvellous performance to demolish Sophia on Sunday night and step into the semi-final round of the GT Beer Futsal Tournament, along with the unbeaten trio of Sparta Boss, West Front Road-Gold is Money and Festival City.

Action began at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall with Bent Street inflicting a 12-5 whipping on Sophia as Okeene Fraser led with a helmet-trick of goals. Stellon David scored in the second minute to put Bent Street ahead but Dwayne Lowe who was the opposition’s driving force throughout the match, equalised in the fourth.

Fraser then scored his first in the fifth and Lowe answered in the sixth to make it 2-2. Four minutes later Fraser recorded his second then Colin Nelson gave the eventual victors their first two-goal lead in the 12th minute.

Sophia managed to pull one back in the 14th minute, a goal which completed Lowe’s first-half hat-trick but his team was still behind 3-4. In the second half Lowe and his teammate Omallo Williams scored once each in consecutive minutes to take their tally to five, but it was not enough for the goal-thirsty opposition.

David opened the scoring in the second half; Fraser scored in the 20th and 30th minutes while Nelson found the back of the net in the 24th and 28th minutes to complete his hat-trick. Amos Ramsey also cashed-in big with a second half hat-trick, scoring in the 23rd, 25th and 29th minutes.

West Front Road humbled West Back Road in the match that followed 5-3. Randolph Wagner and Hubert Pedro scored in the 6th and 14th minutes for West Front Road to give their side some bit of comfort to play with in the second half.

Wagner (18th) and Pedro (27th) each scored once again along with Michael Oie (23rd) to keep West Back Road under pressure even though goals came from Teon Caesar (20th & 21st) and Josiah Charles (22nd).

Sparta Boss held of a tough challenge from Kitty Weavers to win 6-5. Even though Sparta led 4-1 at the half, Weavers bounced to push the match into overtime. Cleon Forrester scored once in both halves to complete a brace while Dennis Edwards scored twice on the brink of half-time for Sparta. Eusi Phillips was also successful for them in the first half while Travis Grant found the decider in the 33rd.

Kitty Weavers were driven by Sherwin Vincent who got past the goalkeeper four times for the night while Travis Martin chipped in with a goal in the 24th.

In the last quarterfinal showdown of the evening Festival City kept an unblemished record as they defeated Albouystown 6-3.

Festival City led 3-2 at the half – Eon Alleyne, Solomon Austin and Alex Murray scored in the second, sixth and seventh but Devon Dooker answered in the eighth and 14th minutes to keep Alboustown’s hopes alive.

The unbeaten side piled on three more goals in the second half through Alleyne, Austin and Dwayne Lawrence. However, Albouystown were only able to answer once when Eucie Cummings struck in the 24th.

The Petra-organised event continues tomorrow night with the semi-final round being contested at the same venue.

The semi-finalists are two nights away from finding out who will be crowned the inaugural GT Beer Futsal champions and claim the top prize of $500 000 along with the GT Beer Futsal Trophy while the second-, third- and fourth-place finishers will have to settle for $250 000, $125 000 and $75 000, respectively.

By Kizan Brumell