Aroydy Branford scored twice as Guyana and Brazil played to a 2 – 2 draw yesterday when the Pan American Hockey Challenge continued in Chiclayo, Peru.

Coming off of their 14 – 0 win over Panama the previous day, the Guyanese getting a go-ahead goal from Branford in the 12th minute.

The Brazilians equalised in the 43rd minute through Stephane Vehrle-Smith and then took the lead a minute later when Lucas Paixao found the net.

However, not to be outdone, Branford score his second of the night in the 51st minute to give the men from ‘GT’ an important draw.

Brazil will close out the group stage atop ‘Pool A’ with seven points while the Guyanese who played to their second draw of the tournament, will settle for second place.

It means that Guyana will face winner of ‘Pool B’ in the semi-finals on Friday (October 9).

Meanwhile, in their historic win over Panama, the unranked Guyanese team signalled their intentions from the opening whistle when Shane Samuels scored just 15 seconds into the game, with the easiest of tap-ins on the last post.

Branford added a second in the 4th minute while in the 13th minute, Mark Sargeant added a third.

The only goal of the second quarter came from Jamarj Assanah in the 20th minute as Guyana moved into the half-time break up 4-0.

Guyana came out blazing in the second half and showed their superior fitness, taking advantage of a tiring Panamanian defence.

Robert France scored twice in the quarter, with goals in the 32nd and 38th minutes, while Branford, Orland Semple, Andrew Xavier and Sargeant scored in the 35th, 36th, 40th and 43rd minute in that order.

Semple and Assanah continued the scoring in the final quarter with goals in the 49th and 51st minutes before Branford added two more to complete the 14-0 shutout.