Pepsi Hikers take Men’s title, GBTI GCC Tigers are Women’s Champions

PEPSI Hikers squeezed past ‘Saints’ on a penalty shoot-out in the exciting men’s final of the Diamond Mineral Water Hockey Championships on Sunday night at the National Gymnasium after the game ended in a 3-all draw.
Devon Munroe scored in the 4th minute for Pepsi Hikers, but that was the only goal scored in the first half, as the defence of both teams looked sound.

Jabari Lovell levelled the score in the 14th minute when he beat custodian David Williams, while in two minutes Shakeem Fausette found the back of the net to give Saints a 2-1 lead.
Shomere Garnett scored in the 32nd minute to widen the lead for Saints to 3-1, before guest player Trinidadian Akim Toussaint and Skipper Robert Fernandes scored in the space of three minutes as the game ended 3-3, to take the contest into a penalty shootout which Pepsi Hikers won 2-0.

In the Exxon Mobil Women’s final, GBTI GCC Tigers got the better of the Trinidad and Tobago Policewomen, 6-2, after leading 5-nil at halftime.
National player Abosaide Cadogan scored her first goal in the 2nd minute of the game before beating the goalie on two more occasions to register a hat trick, while Sonia Jardine scored twice as the Guyanese ladies dominated their Trinidadian counterparts in the first half.

Skipper Brittney Hingh netted in a brace as the Police team from Trinidad and Tobago fought back.
However, Jardine completed her hat trick when she got the ball past Goal-Keeper Lorna Cooper in the 39th minute to help the Bourda Girls to an emphatic win.
Antonio’s Hikers beat GCC the Sequel in a thrilling penalty shootout in the Republic Bank over-35 final, while a brace from Roger Daniels led Trinidad and Tobago’s Over-45 Masters to a 2-1 against GCC Vintage, whose goal came off the stick of Dwayne Scott.