THANKS to Dennis Caldeira’s double, Tiger Bay were able to maintain their supremacy over Melanie, following their 4-0 win in the quarterfinal of this year’s fourth annual Mackeson Stout ‘Keep Your Five Alive’ Futsal football competition, which was contested at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall tarmac last Saturday night.

In fact, such was the intensity of the quarterfinal action that three of the four matches were decided via penalty kicks, as no team sought to give anything away to their opponents, in their hunt to claim the top prize when the final takes place at the same venue after the semifinals on Saturday.
After seeing Alexander Village and North East La Penitence play to a nil-all draw in which the former came away 1-0 winners via penalty kicks, Tiger Bay took the court to face the team they met in the final of the Banks DIH National Guinness Greatest of de Streets competition a few weeks back.
The eventual victors asserted themselves early in the contest, when Caldeira opened the scoring in the first minute, doubling his team’s lead three minutes later when he completed his double, before Solomon Austin made it 3-0 just before the whistle sounded for halftime.
After the break, Tiger Bay continued with their attack on their opponents’ goal area and were duly rewarded when Jamal Blackman scored the final goal of the contest in the 18th minute, to push his team into the semifinals.
West Front Road and defending champions Sparta Boss then claimed victories via sudden death penalty kicks over Albouystown and Texas respectively while in the lone exhibition game, the Media XI, through goals from Mark Younge, Duncan Saul, Esaun Griffith and Okeshi Crocker, drubbed Qualfon 4-1.
At stake in the competition is $500 000 in cash and prizes and even though there is one more night to play, teams are asked to note carefully that only those who have been registered on the registration form provided will be allowed to participate, with no alterations being allowed, only in the case of injury which must occur during the playing of the competition.
“In addition to the tournament, there will be an Axe halftime show compliments of that product’s main distributor in Guyana, DeSinco Trading, which is being dubbed the ‘Take and Shoot’ competition, for which fabulous prizes will be up for grabs, along with the regular Mackeson giveaways,” said tournament organisar Kevin Adonis.
Apart from Ansa McAl and DeSinco Trading, some other sponsors of the tournament are: Colours Boutique, Clairan’s Boutique, Clear Water, Star Party Rentals, White Castle Fish Shop, and HJTV and its 94.1 Boom FM, just to name a few. (Calvin Roberts)