Timehri Red Triangle on verge of being crowned inaugural champions

TIMEHRI Red Triangle has assured themselves of being crowned the inaugural champions of the East Bank Football Association (EBFA)/GFF/Pele Alumni Frank Watson U-15 Intra Association League when they romped to their ninth win in 10 matches last Sunday at the Timehri Red Ground, East Bank Demerara.

Led by their leading marksman, Ishmael Pulsarran who netted five goals to move to 16 in the league, Timehri defeated Herstelling Raiders in a goal fest of a match, 7-4. Despite the efforts of the league’s leading goalscorer, Shoran James who netted a hat-trick to move to 19 overall, Herstelling found the rampaging lads from Timehri too hot to handle.

Pulsarran hit the back of the net in the 14th, 20th, 29th, 33rd and 38th minutes with the other goals coming from Tywell Lovell in the 11th minute and Neron Barrow who had opened proceedings in the 3rd minute.

James was on target for Herstelling in the 10th, 44th and 48th minutes while Solomon Austin accounted for the other in the 56th minute.

Swan FC, based on the Linden/Soesdyke Highway and contesting their first tournament as an affiliate of the EBFA continue to prove their worth with back-to-back wins which came against Agricola 1-0 and Diamond Upsetters 2-0.

All three goals were scored by Azeem Calistro. Against Agricola he scored in the 20th minute and against Diamond Upsetters he fired home in the 20th and 25th minutes. The wins for Swan have taken them into the number three position in the points table behind Agricola. The two have same points, same goal difference, played the same amount of matches while losing and drawing similarly.

In other matches, Samatta Point/Kaneville blanked Diamond United 3-0 on account of a brace from Matthew Austin in the 4th and 24th minutes and Tyrone Ricks who converted in the 12th minute.

Samatta Point/Kaneville were then held to a 2-2 draw on Sunday by Mocha Champs in a see-saw affair. Mocha had taken the lead when Genesis Lewis scored in the 10th minute but Samatta Point hit back with goals off the boot of Tyrone Ricks and Matthew Austin in the 20th and 25th minutes to equalise then take the lead.

But Mocha responded with an Adam Rutherford 29th minute goal which restored parity to the scoreline as the game ended with the scores unchanged.

The other match saw Soesdyke Falcons trounce Diamond United 5-0. Romero Bradford scored in the 38th and 40th minutes while there was one each for Tyrone Burnette (4), Troy Gibson (7) and Malachi Leacock in the 36th minute.

Two matches scheduled for yesterday, Timehri vs Mocha and Kuru Kururu Warriors vs Herstelling, were postponed since players from these clubs were involved in a warm-up match against the Women’s national team currently preparing for two international competitions.

The EBFA will take a break from action this weekend and resume next week.

Latest Points Standings

Team                          P          W        L         D         F          A         GD      Points

Timehri                        10        9          1          0          48        8          +40      27

Agricola                      10        6          3          1          24        8          +16      19

Swan FC                     10        6          3          1          23        7          +16      19

Kuru Kururu               9          6          2          1          18        10        +7        19

Grove                          11        5          2          4          12        11        +1        19

Diamond Upsetters     11        4          5          2          13        14        -1         14

Herstelling                   10        4          5          1          31        33        +2        13

Mocha                         9          3          3          3          12        9          +3        12

Samatta Point/KV       10        3          4          3          14        26        -12       12

Soesdyke                     11        3          7          1          17        22        -5         9

Friendship                   10        3          7          0          7          19        -12       9

Diamond United         9          0          9          0          2          65        -63       0

Captions:

Ishmael Pulsarran

Azeem Calistro