St. Angela’s crowned 2015 champions
-St. Pius finish third
St. Angela’s crowned an astonishing perfomance throughout this year’s
Champs St. Angela’s: Caption- Country Manager of Courts Clyde DeHaas and Sports Director Christopher Jones (centre) pose with the winning team St. Angela’s and officials along with their hardware yesterday.
Courts Pee Wee Schools Football Competition following a resounding 3-1 triumph over Enterprise in the final which was played before a capacity crowd yesterday, at the Banks DIH ground, Thirst Park.
Leading the champions to victory was Tournament Most Valuable Player and Highest Goalscorer of the Tournament Keyon Douglas, who netted a double in the 33rd and 40th minutes to end the competition with the maximum 16 goals.
Earlier, Antonio McArthur had given St. Angela’s the lead with an opening strike in the 29th minute, while Seon Archibald 36th minute effort had threatened to make the game interesting.
Due to the win, St. Angela’s won the championship trophy, medals, a set of team uniforms, certificates and a computer package, while Enterprise received the second place trophy, medals, six footballs, certificates and a computer package.
In the individual awards, Douglas walked away with the highest goal scorer and a tablet for being the event’s MVP.
St. Angela’s completed the sweep of the individual player awards as Timeni Cort received the best goal-keeper award after conceding only one goal throughout the event.
Receiving the best coach award of a tablet was St. Angela’s Oscar Payne, while the most supportive teacher award of a tablet went to Avril January of St. Angela’s.
Janice DeAbreu of South Ruimveldt Primary was presented with the most supportive parent award.
Following the presentation ceremony, Country Manager of Courts Clyde DeHaas, Sports Director Christopher Jones, Representative of the Ministry of Education Nicholas Fraser, GFF Director of Marketing and Communications Rawle Toney, Marketing Manager of Courts Pernell Cummings and Petra Co-Director Troy Mendonca, all made remarks.
The final lived up to all expectations as the technical superiority of St. Angela’s was met with robust defending by Enterprise and the opening period saw both teams fail to trouble the scoresheet.
However, the contest eventually came to life nine minutes into the second period as McArthur fired in a curling effort from the left side of the field, which nestled nicely, perfectly into the top right hand corner of the goal to instigate euphoria among their supporters.
It then became 2-0 four minutes later as the talismanic Douglas netted his first goal of the match, after racing on to a free ball following a goal mouth melee to boot it past the keeper.
Archibald then made the game a bit interesting when his corner kick taken from the right side of the field eluded the grasp of the keeper to bounce over the line.
However St. Angela’s was in no mood to entertain any intrigue Douglas sealed the deal, racing past his marker to deliver a screamer past a surprised goalkeeper which evidently wrapped up the title for them.
In the third place playoff, St. Pius edged West Ruimveldt 5-4 on penalty kicks after regulation time ended 1-1.
Sherwyn Reid scored for St. Pius in the 10th minute, while Mark Cameron netted for West Ruimveldt in the 19th minute.