East Berbice register big win on opening day

THE Guyana Football Federation (GFF)/Tiger Rentals’ under-13 football tournament kicked off last Saturday at the National Training Centre (NTC), Providence, with a total of five exciting matches that followed the opening ceremony and march past.

In the opening match, East Berbice trampled Diamond United 6-1 in what turned out to be the biggest defeat of the day. Diamond United scored the first, and their only goal of the game, in the first minute of the clash through Nasio Bassant but it was one way traffic for Berbice after that. Berbice had six different goal-scorers in the game namely, Joshua Marshall, Shamar August, Allan Spencer, Xavier Andrews, Fabino Devair and Rodenzo Badal.

Fruta Conquerors, coached by Golden Jaguar’s Jeremy Garrett, breezed past Timehri Panthers 5-2. Jason Williams was responsible for both of the Timehri Panthers’ goals while a brace from Shaquon Deon and one goal each from Gilbert Frank, Dane Sampson and Joshua Hart accounted for the five goals for the victors.

In the other matches, Upper Demerara defeated West Berbice 2-0, Georgetown ATC edged Region Six ATC 2-1, while West Demerara ATC triumphed over East Bank ATC 3-1.

The GFF Tiger Rentals’ tournament will be played in the group round-robin stage between clubs and Academy Training Centre teams before moving forward to the knockout round.