This afternoon Headquarters’ Hill hosted Women’s Rugby on a windswept afternoon at prospect Field.

Saturday, October 27th 2018 @ 1:00 p.m.

This afternoon travelling Prospect United met St. George’s All Stars in the opening game at 1300 hours. All Stars had acquired key signings in the off season with the now defunct Devonshire All Stars. Dell Tyrell was at his best this afternoon after his warm up cycling before game. Coincidently English national Jonathan Wood was equally up to his task on opposite end of the field.

Former Social Club stalwart Rappar was at the center of the action immediately granting St. Georges a cheap free kick in the opening on top of the 18 yard box to Dell Tyrell stepped up to the plate and pitched the ball into the top pigeon of the Prospect goal.

Moments later the champions displayed class as they sliced the St Georges back line to which Dexter hall volleyed the ball into net after a keeper blocked the ball with his first attempt. Nevertheless the referee disallowed the goal and kept the score at 0-1

With the officiating in the St. Georges corner Prospect had dig deep to which Jonathan Wood came into mid field and turned on a dime and cut across midfielders and stepped over and past the defenders and rifled the ball into the corner pocket of the St. Georges goal leaving the keeper no chance equally the score to which the referee could find no reason to disallow on this occasion.

With the support the referee St Georges was able to win the majority of the calls which may have aided in their 2 goal of the half. But again Robin Evans fired a bullet into back of net from close range equaling the score to the end the half.

Both teams felt the heat of the day amidst a high paced game play.

With the strong winds St. Georges began shoveling hail Marys for Del Tryell to chase down over and over in the second half. to which were able to run away with the game in the remaining minutes of the contest.

Possession:  St.Georges 48% Police 52 %

St George’s All Stars: M Vernaza, E Cooke, Q Francis (cap), A Darrel, D Minors, H Mathie, H O’Conner, D Tyrell, K Bartram, K Moreno, M Simons.

Substitutes: D Wright, C Richardson, S Gibbons, R Denbroke, M Burgess.

Goals: Dell 10, 50, 75, Bartram 65, Gibbons 88.

Prospect: R Douglas, S Dennie, S Miller, R Henry, B Harris, O Leke, R Barker, D Hunte (cap) W Reid, J Talbot, R Evans, J Wood.

Substitutes: C Thompson,  H Clarke,  K Thompson.

Goals: Woody 14, Evans 43.

Referee: Rappar (BDA)

Yellow cards: none

Man of the match: Miller (Prospect)

Prospect 2 YMSC 1

Saturday October 13th 2018 @ 3:00 p.m.

Title holders Prospect United continued their undefeated run hosting Young Men’s Social Club at Headquarter’s Hill this afternoon on a wind swept field in Prospect.

Match Commissioner Terry Paytner was present ensuring law and order between both teams at the helm.

Prospect struck first in the opening minutes after numerous attacks on the Social Club defense. Colin Steward latched on to a pass in front on goal made no mistake from the mark blistering his shot across the line and into the back of the net causing mayhem in the 18 yard box.

Social Club equalized in the first half with a goal of their own looping a bouncing ball from the throw in over cross court to the back post of play with their own player toe poking the ball into the net after a brief pause in play.

Prospect however, like the champions they are dug deep into their arsenal and produced the game winning goal in the second half and continuing their unbeaten run into their next match against the St. Georges Stallions.

Prospect: R Douglas, S Dennie, S Simmons, O Wolffe, B Harris, D Hunt, T Adams (cap), W Reid, R Evens,  D Woody, C Steward.

Substitutes: D Urbina, Cat Thompson, Chin.

Goals: Steward 39, Woody 62.

Young Men’s Social Club: T Hassell, W Campbell, C Daley, M Iris, C Armstrong, A Iris, M Bowen, T Smith, N Simons, A Aberdeen, E Dunkley.

Goals: Talls 32.

Substitutes:  J Ming, T Lewis,  R Hill, Q Francis.

Man of the Match: Rashad Douglas (Prospect)

Cards: None

Referee: Junior (STV)

Bermuda Hosted Dutch St. Maartin this evening at the Nation Stadium for the Concacaf Nations League friendly match which saw both teams able to display their talent from end to end on evening of football.

The CONCACAF Nations League is an international association football competition, to be contested by the senior men’s national teams of the member associations of CONCACAF, the regional governing body of North America, Central America, and the Caribbean. The tournament would take place on dates that are currently allocated for international friendlies on the FIFA International Match Calendar. The inaugural tournament is expected to begin in September 2019. Qualifying started in September 2018.^[1]

Bermuda’s team: Jahquil Hill, Zeiko Lewis, Dante Leverock, Wendell Tre Ming, Dale Eve, Lejaun Simmons, William White, Cecoy Robinson, Jaylon Bather, Reginald Lambe, Daren Usher, Jonte Smith, Donte Brangman, Tevahn Tyrrell, Liam Evans, Roger Lee, Osagi Bascome, Casey Castle, Willie Clemons, Marco Warren, London Steede-Jackson and Calon Minors.

Hamilton Parish 5 Prospect 5

This afternoon East Enders Hamilton Parish took on newly crowned champions Prospect United in a tantalizing affair that was bound to produced goals by the bundles.

Hamilton Parish were on  high after beating the KO winners St. Georges Stallions last week 4-1 and thought that this week they would have the same luck, but head coach Chris Thompson always comes with a winning game plan that the rest of the league have yet to figure out.

Hamilton Parish struck first against the run of play with Kaya and Crucial leading the front line and were able to run away with 2 – 0 lead in the first half.

Chris Thompson made a few technical changes which ultimately turned the game on its head with this summers signing Leke scoring the games first goal within the 18 yard box.

Hamilton Parish’s lead quickly evaporating, they resorted to falling down and flopping around in the 18 yard box in order to draw a penalties in order to slow down the run of play and extend their lead with their legs becoming fatigued and heavy.

Chis Thompson laced his boots and lead the attack from the front line and intercepted the ball from the goalkeeper and slipped it into the corner pocket short side before he had a chance to recover from his blunder.

Prospect were able to win a penalty of their own when after video replay showed that the ball played along the line never was ruled outside of play regardless of what the players thought and sprung a counter attack to which parish was forced to handled the ball in their 18 yard box resulting in a penalty kick form the spot to which Leke converted to the keepers left hand side.

Newly signed Michael Simmons returned to the fold after playing for several teams and provided the engine in the mid field and also ran at the defensive line and fired a roofer into the net frustrating the Hamilton Parish head coach to which he couldn’t find a way to run away with the game.

Just as Hamilton Parish thought they might have taken the points back with them a floated ball from David Urbina eluded the goalkeeper and found the right boot of Chin to which he volley home the equalizer and ended the game Hamilton Parish 5 Prospect United 5.

Possession Police 50% – Hamilton 50 %.

Hamilton Parish: K Banks, A Box, C Pooksie, D Smith, S Spranger, D Williams, G Tankard, Kaya, F Lewis, H Philips, J Michaels.

Substitutes: D Warren, L Simmons, D Wade.

Goals: Lewis 35, Kaya 41, Michaels 67, Crucial 73, .

Prospect United:   A Chase, S Simmons, T Adams, R Douglas, B Harris, D Urbina, M Simmons, J Talbot, V Philgence, R Evans, Chin.

Substitutes: C Thompson, H Clarke, S Dennie, S Miller.

Goals: Leke 49, 58,  Talbot 49, Thompson 65, Chin 85

Man of the Match: Shane Simmons (Prospect)

Referee: Jonathan Wood (ENG)

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Bermuda’s bid for the Masters World Ball Hockey Championships title ended after losing 3-2 to Slovakia in a shoot-out at the Pembroke Community Centre last night.

Forward Peter Figura put Slovakia ahead 2-1 in sudden death before goaltender Peter Jurošek saved Bermuda forward Cory Caouette’s attempt to clinch his team’s victory and dash the home side’s hopes of progressing to the quarter finals.

“A shoot-out loss is a tough way to get knocked out of a tournament, but that’s part of the game,” Chris Coleman, the Bermuda captain, told The Royal Gazette.

Bermuda had to beat Slovakia in their final group game at all costs in order to progress to the quarter finals after losing 5-0 against Canada earlier in the day.

“We came in and knew we had to get a shoot-out win or better and unfortunately just came up short,” Coleman said.

“We came into this tournament not knowing what to expect and these are the best ball hockey players in the world.

“This is an extremely competitive tournament and I put my hat out to the guys who competed hard. It’s amazing that we did as well as we did.”

Bermuda put in another solid shift on the rink but ultimately paid the price for squandering gilt edge chances, particularly in the third period when forward Ronnie Dzurus missed an open net and Caouette failed to capitalise on a one-on-one with goaltender Jurosek.

“We had a lot of chances and there were a lot of loose balls around the net and unfortunately they just didn’t go in for us tonight,” Coleman said.

Bermuda were forced to chase the game after Slovakia forward Jan Krizan opened the scoring with a neat finish from a counterattack down the right side.

Tempers then flared with Bermuda forward Jean Michael Tremblay and Slovakia’s Kamil Podhorsky both being sent to the sin-bin after getting tangled up.

Bermuda were kept on the back foot for most of the first period with their only real chance falling to Caouette, who flashed his shot wide from an angle.

The home side finally sprang to life in the second period which they dominated and were eventually rewarded.

Bermuda defender Shannon Goose and forward Jeff Ingelman both had shots blocked before the former finally made the breakthrough with a crisp shot to bring the teams level.

Slovakia were penalised for having six players on the rink but were let off the hook as Bermuda were unable to make the power play count.

Bermuda came charging out of the blocks at the start of the third period and went agonisingly close when forward Chris Merritt’s shot struck the near post.

Dzurus then missed a sitter when he dragged wide of an empty goal after Jurosek spilt a rebound into his path.

Bermuda were made to rue these missed opportunities as Slovakia regained the lead against the run of play through a goal from forward Branislav Thron.

The hosts still had the momentum, though, and should have been back on even terms when Caouette broke free but was unable to convert.

The goal that Bermuda’s unrelenting pressure warranted finally arrived with just 29 seconds remaining in regulation, Merritt sweeping in during a goalmouth scramble to send the game to a shoot-out where Slovakia ultimately prevailed.

Bermuda play Austria today in the consolation semi-finals.