SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras – Tajea Brown came off the bench to net a second half brace as Jamaica crushed Trinidad and Tobago 5-1 on Sunday, to inch closer to a playoff berth for the Under-17 World Cup later this year.Brown struck twice in the space of six minutes late in the game as Jamaica jumped to seven points in Group A of the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship. They lie third, behind second placed Honduras on eight and leaders United States on ten points.

Honduras and United States drew 2-2 in the feature game of the tripleheader at the Estadio Francisco Morazan while Cuba were eliminated after drawing nil-all with Guatemala.
In the clash of the two finest Under-17 teams in the English-speaking Caribbean, Peter Vassel opened the scoring for Jamaica in the 39th minute only for T&T to level four minutes later through Noah Powder’s brilliant free kick from 20-yards out.
Jamaica then snatched the advantage heading into the break when stand-out forward Nathaniel Adamolekun got onto the end of a long ball, to beat the advancing keeper in the third minute of stoppage time.
Leading 2-1 at the break, Jamaica took command of the game in the second, especially after Brown came off the bench in the 67th minute.
He was on the scoresheet in the 80th minute, chipping substitute goalkeeper Tyrek James and found the nets again moments after surging into the box and lobbing James.
Donovan Dawkins compounded T&T’s misery in the 90th by scoring Jamaica’s fifth.