ST CUTHBERT’S Mission stormed to a one-sided victory against Canadian School of Arts and Science (CSAS) when the former hosted the latter on Sunday in the fifth Digicel’s Nationwide Schools Football Competition. Residents of the Amerindian community of St Cuthbert’s Mission, situated deep off the Soesdyke Highway, dared the inclement weather that threatened to prevent play. Instead they witnessed a 5-0 drubbing by the home side.
A large crowd converged on the community centre ground where the hosts drew first blood just fourteen minutes into the encounter thanks to Rahaul Poonsammy, whose feeble attempt towards the goal managed to find its way past the opposition’s custodian.
Two minutes later, Cleyo Evans doubled the lead for his side when he fired past a goal-mouth scrimmage and found the back of the net.
Banking on such a good start, St Cuthbert’s found it easy to consistently assault CSAS’s goal and were awarded with a penalty kick following a hand-ball in the 18-yard box. Ronaldo O’Selmo made no mistake making it a three-possession match by the half-time whistle.
The second 45 minutes period did not bring any reprieve for CSAS as they were constantly kept in defensive mode while Poonsammy was able to complete his double in the opening minutes.
The heavy outfield and errant finishing kept the scoreline relatively decent as many opportunities were missed, but Roberto Gapputh took full advantage of his chance to score, and finished with efficiency in the 50th minute.
The final whistle eventually brought much reprieve for the Canadian School of Arts Science who also had one player red-carded for misconduct.
Yesterday’s matches at the Ministry of Education ground and Georgetown Football Club were not played
Meanwhile, play in the competition continues today with eight matches at various venues.
At Wisburg ground in Linden, defending champions Christianburg/Wismar take on Mackenzie High School, at Leonora, Vergenoegen tackle Leonora Secondary; at No. 5, Belladrum engage Bush Lot; at Timehri, Soesdyke play Providence; at GFC, South Ruimveldt oppose Mercy Wings at Ministry of Education ground, North Georgetown and St Winefride square off at Skeldon, Tagore match strides with Manchester and New Opportunity Corps, host Essequibo Training Centre.
All matches commence at 15:30hrs.