ON Sunday on the football pitch at the National Track and Field Stadium at Leonora, Slingerz football club showed again why they are clear favourites to earn their second Elite League title with a 5-nil drubbing of fellow ‘west side’ football club, Den Amstel.
It was a one-sided affair from the 13th minute when Kemar Beckford got onto the score sheet with Slingerz’s first strike to hit the back of the net.
Slingerz’s new recruit Solomon Austin then added his name to the score sheet, making it 2-nil in the 22nd .
Derrell Garcia tripled their advantage in the 30th minute and 3-nil the score read thereafter as Slingerz started to strut their goal-scoring prowess.
On the verge of the half-time break, Beckford, who was instrumental in the side’s second-place finish in season six, returned to register his second in the 45th minute as they went into the break, 4-0 up.
The first 44 minutes of the second half proved uneventful as Den Amstel fought back valiantly without success.
Beckford completed his hat-trick in the last minute of regulation time as Slingerz kept their clean record with the 5-nil victory.
Kemar Beckford, following his clinical showing in front of the uprights which resulted in a triple, collected MVP honours, compliments of turbo energy drink.
Earlier, Mainstay Goldstar suffered yet another loss, this time to Fruta Conquerors 3-1.
Fruta Conquerors’ Maiakai Sealey, opened the scoring 15 minutes into the contest to see them go into the breakup 1-0.
Fruta’s Sealey returned after the resumption to make it 2-0 in the 53rd. Fruta’s Simeon Lovell made it 3-nil in the 88th before Mainstay Goldstar got a consolation goal off the cleats of Akeem Houston a minute later in the 89th minute.