Prospect United 1 St Georges Stallions 4

This afternoons events continued the same trend of drama and entertainment as was expected with the arrival of the St Georges Stallions at the Prospect headquarters.

Having convinced half the Prospect nucleus to transfer to the Wellington oval head coach convinced the officials that the game would not be played today because of the lateness of his men at the field which lead to the police officials return to their working duties as he cleared the bench.

With minutes left still in preparation time the St Georges Stallions team emerged from the changing room 16 men strong having gone over this weeks game plan.

Later Coach Bascome requested that it was his turn to referee the sanctioned event to which Terry Lynn-Paynter remained steadfast in her appointment.

Prospect United had to field their men with the remaining players at the field.

The events unfolded when Detroy was able scored from a free kick at the top of the box without having to wear shin pads to which no understand why he was still on the field.

Prospect quickly responded with helicopter shot over newly signed Luellen Simmons returning to action against his former team since his release.

Prospect was dealt a severe blow when newly signed English national was brutally tackled just outside the St Georges penalty box and had to be assisted off the field.

St. Georges took advantage of the depleted Prospect team as Head Coad Chris Thompson was forced to empty his entire bench.

Prospect continued to strive forward but the referee blew the whistle and finished the game  Prospect 1 St. George Stallions 4.

Head coach Herbie Bascome was not available to make statement after the game as he quickly skipped across the field into the visitors changing room.

St. George’s:  L Simmons,  N Paynter, F Greaves, P Hollis, L Signor, C Fox, S Burgess, D Bailey, S Adderley, L Cann, D Smith.

Substitutes: J Laws,  A Williams, C Roberts, D Evans, S Gibbons.

Goals: D Smith 13, 56, L Cann 65, 79.

Prospect Police Club: L Scott, S Dennie, A Miller, S Simmons, B Harris,  M Smith, D Hunte,  J Woody, S Clarke, A Evans.

Substitutes:  C Thompson, J Talbot.

Goals: Stephen Dennie 20,

Cards: None

Referee: Paynter (BDA)

Man of the Match: Dexter Hunte (Prospect)

Football: Barbados Defeat Bermuda 3 – 2

[Updating] Fans made their way to the National Sports Centre as Bermuda and Barbados  matched up in an international friendly football game at 8.00pm this evening.

Bermuda’s starting lineup: Quinaceo Hunt, Casey Castle, Roger Lee, Jaylon Bather, Tre Ming, Donte Brangman, Zeiko Lewis, Willie Clemons, Dante Leverock, Marco Warren, and Reggie Lambe.

Don Burgess tweeted match updates via Bernews Sports account, and that timeline is embedded below.

Update 10.00pm: Bermuda and Barbados played an international friendly football game at the National Sports Centre in front of a vocal and supportive crowd, with Barbados defeating Bermuda 3-2.

Bermuda’s starting lineup was Quinaceo Hunt, Casey Castle, Roger Lee, Jaylon Bather, Tre Ming, Donte Brangman, Zeiko Lewis, Willie Clemons, Dante Leverock, Marco Warren, and Reggie Lambe.

Barbados’ starting lineup was Jason Boxill, Shane Codrington, Ranaldo Bailey, Mario Williams, Mario Harte, Hadan Holligan, Zeco Edmee, Raheim Sergeant, Jomo Harris, Ricardo Morris, and Rashad Jules

Willie Clemons scored first to give Bermuda a 1-0 lead, and Jaylon Bather doubled the Bermuda lead when he scored a few minutes later, and Bermuda took the 2-0 lead into the half time break.

However, Barbados came out strong in the second half, and despite the best efforts of Bermuda’s team, the visitors scored three goals in the second half, including two very late goals, with the match ending 3-2.

Prospect 8 Hamilton Parish 2

Hamilton Parish Hot Peppers musters up enough confidence to face their opponents and arch rivals Prospect Police Club at the sanctioned event in St. David’s this afternoon. Hamilton Parish came out with their backs in the wind as they managed to organize an attack force that showed them so much success since the early 80’s and 90’s. Nevertheless they were no match for the newly formed police until which introduced a never seen before English attack that the Hot Peppers had no game plan for. Both teams entered the half at 1-1 but with the Police deep bench they were able to out run their opponents in the later stages of the match finishing the game 8-2.

Somerset 0 Police 2

Somerset supports were stunned at the firepower and speed of the Police outfit at the Silver City Stadium this afternoon which saw the Police end the game with a clean sheet and took home all three point catapulting them to the top of the league tables.

Tracy Adam’s 11 man Police Unit quickly dismantled the Somerset defense at will running at the Eastern End of the field with the winds at their backs.

Somerset added to their arsenal after acquiring the services of both former Somerset Eagles captains Stevie Burrows and Noel Woods who were not able to withhold their defenses units.

Jonny Talbot opening the scoring in the 29th minute of the first half when he dramatically rose above the his opponents and headed home the ice breaker leaving the Somerset supporters in disarray.

The half ended with both teams entering the dressing room at 0-1 with 45 minutes left in the contest.

Prospect reentered the field and nearly extended their lead with Colin Stewart leaving a trail of carnage on his way to the goal including the keeper to which their sweeper  controversially sat on the ball to prevent it from crossing the line.

Chris “The Cat” Thompson was called to action making a diving save to his left grabbing the ball after the Somerset striker Dwight Basden fired the ball at net.

With fatigue setting and frustration growing Prospect finally settled the issue in the 75 minute when their newly acquired rookie leapt off the bench and scored right footed effort from a cross that left the keeper no chance and was fired into the corner pocket of the goal at the Western End of the field leaving the Somerset outfit hapless in their devours.

Player coach Chris Thompson was quoted after the game ” ….nice effort from everyone involved”

Man of the match: T Adams.

North Village 5 Prospect United 2

This preseason action saw North Village hand Prospect united a 5-2 loss at Bernard’s Park Field.

Aljame Zuille was able to open his tally with his touch of the game.

Tory keeping Prospect in the game with some fire power of his own ending up the North Village goal net.

At the end of the contest North Village were the better team on the day.

North Village

Kennedy, Armell Thomas, Boyles, A Zuille, L Simmons, Machine, Spence, Jennings, Dill,

Prospect

Scott, Tory, Ras, Hunt, Dennie, Harris, Philgence, Barker, Woody, Clarke, W Reid, Colin.

Referee:

The 2017 Gregory Grimes 8 a Side Invitational Tournament got off to cracking start to the Masters League season with teams from St. George’s Stallion, NVCC, St Georges All Star and Prospect United all in attendance at the Police Field on Headquarters Hill in Prospect this afternoon.

Bermuda 1 New York Cosmos 1

This afternoon Bermuda hosted visitors from Brooklyn, New York at the National Stadium which not only lived up to be an exciting event but also saw Randy Horton honoured with a well decorated career as well as Dandy Town’s Onieko Lowe awarded a professional contract to travel with the USA based outfit.

The first half saw both teams execute sublime passing structures and forced both keepers in action on the wind swept field in Prospect, Devonshire that saw both teams re-enter the dressing rooms at the half with clean sheets.

Despite New York organizing a sophisticated attack Bermuda’s Ming spotted the Yew York keeper off his line a launched a 50 yard effort that crossed the line and bounced into the roof of the net in the 57 minutes of the game.

With the pressure increasing and fatigue setting in New York were able to find an equalizer leveling the score at 1 – 1.

Referee: Anthony Bailey (BDA)

It takes a City

Police units arrived at St Georges cricket club for the second time this season for their sanctioned event against St George’s All-Star team whom awaited their arrival having heard the news of the catastrophe of their sister team St. Georges Stallions at Christmas eve.

Stallion’s Troy Hall reportedly questioned the media why some parts of the events were being televised and others weren’t. He was quoted saying “Why the cameras got turned off during the second half of our game?”

Abdner Callagham was hesitant as he entered the game as it would be final match as he completed his transfer and can be seen in action in The Jamaican Football League.

Quinton Francis was up to the task while acquiring additional transfers from Prospect United including Kenny Bartram, Michael Simons  and Milton Vernaza as well as Sinclair Gibbons from St. Georges Stallions.

Lawrence Scott fought off the elements as he suited up to as he is now Prospects # 1 Keeper succeeding Keeper Simmons between the goal posts.

St Georges opened the scoring as Dell Tyrell was able to stay onside with his run and fired home a shot into corner pocket opening up the scoring at Wellington Oval.

Prospect was not about to be undone and striker Thompson quickly responded with a left footed effort of his own revitalizing his team’s campaign of winning the Master League.

Dell Tyler stepped to the side to receive some miracle water from teammates and later scored another to add to the lead of the game.

Newly acquired Barbadian international Shane Simmons fired home another rifle reminding St. Georges the reason why the police were in the neighborhood.

Dell Tyler was then able to complete his hat trick with a solo effort against the run of play and extend his lead at the top of the scoring tables.

Once St. George’s took the lead the local referee tried to quickly end to the game with eight minutes left to play on the match commissioner’s watch to which Dexter Hunte demanded that the game had to be continued amidst the confusion of the All Stars tactics.

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.

Prospect Police Club: L Scott,   R Henry,  B Harris,  N Barker, J Talbot, A Evens, C Thompson, A Callagham(cap), R Douglas, H Clarke, S Allen.

Substitutes: A Ramabuki, D Harvey,  D Joell, R Bell, S Dennie, C Stewart,.A Miller, T Adams, D Hunt, W Reid.

Man of the Match: Abdner Callagham.

PHC Zebras vs Prospect United

PHC took on Masters League contenders Prospect United this afternoon at the Southampton Oval.

PHC were determined not to lose to Prospect for a third consecutive time as they did decisively in the league also without the likes of their goal prolific striker Mango Lightbourne and Kenny Mills in the attack.

Prospect were also without the likes of their first Keeper Luellen Simmons as he completed his transfer and can be seen in his new Scotland Rangers outfit at the Ibrox Stadium during the new year window which lead all eyes on Lawrence Scott as he took to suit up in the Knock Out Cup qualifier.

PHC took the early lead with a corner kick crossed into the box which was headed over the line.

Prospect returned the favor minutes later with a long range dipper from striker Colin Stuart.

PHC was accused of a hand ball in the box the was waved off and was able to score with a shot across Scott amidst the confusion.

In the second half Prospect rotated their attack unit and Thompson was able to break through the PHC defence and scored one of the best goals of the game with a daisy cutter into the corner pocket.

With the game headed towards straight penalties in the dying minutes of the game PHC was granted a stroke of luck when a slicing cross was wind guided into the net leaving Lawrence no chance.

The game finally ended PHC Zebras 4 Prospect United 2

PHC: J Smith, Q Hunt, E Dowling, B Bean, E Bean, D Booth,  J Anderson, E Hunt, (cap),  A Washington, B Butterfeild, J Sealy.

Substitutes:  R Lightbourne, K Mills, J Russell,  D Wilson.

Prospect Police Club: L Scott,  R Henry, A Callagham, S Wolfe, B Harris, R Barker (cap), R Dougi, S Allen, A Evens, A Miller, C Stuart.

Substitutes:  C Thompson, W Reid, S Dennie, O Wolfe, T Adams, V Filgence.

Man of the Match: Eddie Dowling (PHC)

Cards: None

Referee: Anthony Bailey (BDA)