THE Guyana Defence Force ladies showed their pedigree on Saturday evening at the National Training Centre as they took both the first and second place honours when the Guyana Football Federation staged the final of the inaugural Maid Marian Wheat Up Women’s Cup 2024.
The nine-team league tournament which kicked off November 30 last year saw the Guyana Defence Force A and B teams vying for top honours in the final after they topped their respective groups.
GDF A were left unbeaten after the league phase with three wins in three with Guyana Police Force side topping the other group with three wins in four.

In the semis, also on Saturday, which featured the top two sides in both groups saw GDF B thrashing Fruta Conquerors 6-nil and GDF A team edging Guyana Police Force 1-nil to book their respective places in the finals.
In the final GDF’s A team showed class as they hammered their B team 7-1 to clinch the league championship trophy.
Sandra Johnson looked dangerous with every run into the B team’s 30-yard circle against a porous defence.

She was successful on three occasions after her relentless onslaught on the opposing team’s uprights, recording a hat trick while Glendy Lewis scored a brace and a pair of single strikes for Jalade trim and Patsy Walker.
Anastasa Horsham scored GDF B’s consolation goal as their club mates walked away with the top trophy and earned the prize of half a million dollars.
The GDF B team collected two hundred thousand dollars for second place.

In the third-place contest, it was an exhibition in goal scoring as a pair of goals from Amanda Mckenzie, Shontelle Greene and Flourice Waldorn guided the GPF to a sound thrashing of Fruta Conquerors 10-nil to collect the one hundred thousand dollars on offer for third.
The six-week seven-a-side competition also featured Lethem, Santos, Bartica and Potaro Strikers.

The tournament was sponsored by the National Milling Company through their wheat-up brand with support from the Guyana Beverages Inc.