By Colin Bynoe

IN football, a striker’s sole purpose on the pitch is to score goals – something Carlos Leitch did on his own. Leitch scored four goals on Monday, to help guide Manchester Secondary to a 4-1 win over Skeldon Line Path Secondary in the first of two exciting matches, played at the Burhnam Park ground.

Skeldon Line Path, playing with an 8-man unit, opened the `scoring as early as the 4th minute with a goal from Brandt Peneux. Little did they know that attempt would be their only goal of the match.
Many defensive errors occurred in the match for both teams, Carlos Leitch capitalised on one of those defensive errors to hit in the equaliser in the 23rd minute. By halftime the score read 1-1

After the resumption, with both teams enjoying a 15-minute respite, it was Leitch who displayed a hunger for more goals. He wasted no time as he hit home his second goal in the 40th minute. By that time it was evident that the Manchester lad took the sting out of the 8-man Skeldon Line Path.
Leitch continued to torment the limited Skeldon Line Path as he secured two easy goals in the 67th and 69th minute. He scored all 4 goals. Manchester will move another step in the competition with the win.

Match two, JC Chandisingh battled Lower Corentyne from 15:30hrs. Lower Corentyne Secondary were taught a harsh lesson. They found scoring very difficult and surrendered 10 goals to JC Chandisingh.
The number of goals outnumbered the number of players Lower Corentyne fielded. They featured a 7-man unit. As early as the 5th minute Stephono Pestano opened the scoring for JC.

Evidently Lower Corentyne weren’t prepared. Jaheim Crandon made his mark 5 minutes later, scoring his team’s second goal in the 9th minute. Two more effortless goals were scored in the 24th and 30th minutes to close the first half at 4-0.
When the game resumed, JC Chandisingh were in a goal-scoring frenzy. They drilled home six more goals by the end of the final whistle, in the 48th, 61st, 69th, 74th, 87th, 89th minutes.

The competition intensified throughout the week with exciting matches in the DIGICEL schools football competition Region 6 leg.