… Lose Father’s Day clash to U-15 male side

ONE of Region One’s best female football teams, the Invincible Talons, Sebai’s sports club team are back in training.
The players, who have been fully vaccinated, are hoping to compete in the 2021 Amerindian Heritage Games, if those Games take place in September.
In 2019, when the-then Ministry of Indigenous Affairs (now Amerindian Affairs) last held the Games, the Marva Benjamin-captained side had finished as semi-finalists.
Among the big names who are back on the field are star striker Feona Benjamin (Number 10), Ravina Benjamin and defender Candacy Benjamin.
The female players are having sessions with coach Mitchell Hernandez.
On Sunday, in a Father’s Day friendly clash, to gauge their strengths and weaknesses, the side battled against the U-15 male team at the Sebai Recreational Ground in Sebai Village.

In that clash, the girls started off with dominant plays, but could not keep up the momentum.
Ravina Benjamin was the first in the scorebook when she headed in a Marva Benjamin volley in front of goal to the left of keeper Akeem Benjamin.
The junior side had a few opportunities with Keon Beharry unable to convert an opportunity in the 18-yard box, while Worrell Benjamin Jr’s shot in the 30th minute was saved by a diving Rumeeza O’Selmo. It took an own goal in the early second half to level the scores, before Worrell Benjamin Jr carried the U-15 side ahead in the 50th minute.
Four minutes later the boys sealed the game (3-1) with Beharry converting a penalty stemming from a handball.
Candacy Benjamin was adjudged the best female defender of the game.