ELITE League side Slingerz got back to their winning ways on Thursday, whipping Western Tigers, 6-1, as action in the KFC- sponsored Season Six continued this week.
The West Coast-based Slingerz had to rally early, as they were again on the back foot in their match-up with Western Tigers, similar to how they started in their draw a week earlier against Monedderlust.
Tiger’s top scorer Andrew Murray put the West Ruimveldt side ahead in the 28th minute, giving Slingerz early shivers after their near-perfect run in Season Six of the League.
Slingerz’ response came four minutes later, in the form of an equalizer, as new recruit Jamaican Kemar Beckford showed his worth on debut.
Tigers quickly lost some of their bite after they were reduced to 10 men with a Sean Taylor red card.

The inaugural elite league champions’ Slingerz top goal scorers Marcus Tudor then came to the fore with his lone goal in the 36th minute of the contest to give them advantage for the first time in the game.
Beckford came back to make it 3-1 at the half with his second in the 41st minute to keep Western Tigers at bay.
After the resumption, Tigers found another gear as Jermain Beckles made it, 3-2, in the 66th minute, a comeback seeming to loom in the distance for the Georgetown-based team.
Beckford, however, had other ideas as he completed his hat-trick in the 68th to all but put the game out of Tigers’ reach.
Western picked up the pace, desperately looking to find their next goal, but in the hectic final 15-minute stretch, Slingerz piled on the goals through Sheldon Holder (87th) and Bryan Wharton (89th).
The win is their 9th of the League, with two draws, as they hold second in the point table.

Meanwhile, reigning champions the Guyana Defence Force FC extended their lead at the top of the league table with a 3-1 stoppage of Den Amstel.
After a somewhat of uncharacteristically sedate first period of the contest, it took GDF’s Kelsey Benjamin 34 minutes before he found the first goal.
After the resumption, the soldiers began to find their mojo.

Ryan Hackett caught the Den Amstel goal keeper off his line, and doubled their lead in the 57th before Stephen McDonald made it 3-nil three minutes later to walk away with the victory.
The win sees the GDF move to 10 wins and a draw in 11 outings to stay atop of the standing with seven more games to play.
This is the second half of the league being contested at the Guyana Football Federations National Training Centre.