Saints Hockey Club sweep all comers to take lion’s share
Saints Clovelly, U21 Summer Break Hockey Winners
Saints Clovelly, U21 Summer Break Hockey Winners

SAINTS Hockey Club stormed to victory in the Guyana Hockey Board Indoor Summer Break tournament to capture all of the top prizes on offer with a clean sweep of the U16 and U21 male and female categories when the two-day competition concluded at the National Gymnasium.

In the Under-21 finals, it was an all-Saints affair, as Saints ‘S’ Team and Saints Clovelly faced each other in the final matchup of the evening.

The club mates, who were no doubt familiar with each other’s game, traded blows for the entirety of the show, with only a Baraka Garnett goal for Clovelly proving decisive to separate the two sides by a solitary field goal, which came in the 22nd minute.

Saints Clovelly walked away with the title and bragging rights.

Saints ‘S’ Team top striker Shakeem Fausette in action

Earlier on Sunday, Saints Clovelly needed a penalty shoot-out to get past YMCA Old Fort Top Form, 2-1, while Saints ‘S’ Team battered GCC Pitbulls, 4-2, after a double from talismanic Shakeem Fausette.

In the U21 third place clash, a hat-trick from Nkosi Saul guided YMCA Old Fort Top Form to a 7-nil victory over GCC Pitbulls.

Meanwhile, the U21 girls finals saw Saints ladies producing a perfect penalty shootout after a goal-less game to take a 2-0 victory over top junior girls team, GCC Spartans.

In the U16 Boys final, GCC Outlaws battled Saints Legends, and it was a true battle, as neither team was able to convert in the first half.

Outlaws would record the game’s first goal in the first half, off the stick of Grant Fernandes, before Saints Legends evened things up shortly afterwards with a Darius Dundas penalty corner.

The scores would be 1-1 at the end of regulation time, forcing a penalty shootout.

Saints would show composure to take the victory after a one-versus-one shoot-out, 4-3.

In the Under-16 Girls finals, Saints Sensation was simply that, sensational, to overwhelm YMCA Old Fort Stars, 6-1.

Janeyka Sampson was fabulous with a pair of field goals from Carenza Copeland, with the other goals coming from Makaulah Poole, Kaylra Scott, Sarah Henry, and Amisha Hooper.

While in the Girls Under-16 third-place contest, GCC Hur-ricanes beat Trinidad Venture Hockey Club, Stickler, 2-nil, with both coming from Hannah Percival Field goals.

In the Under-13 division, GCC War Dogs defeated YMCA Old Fort Showstoppers.

The two-day tournament, held at the National Gymnasium, saw 17 teams participating, and was sponsored by Value4u Inc.

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