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Photo: La Horquetta Rangers captain Jamal Creighton (centre) falls dramatically while Cunupia FC midfielder Dwane James (left) pleads his innocence during Ascension Invitational action in La Horquetta on 24 August 2019. ...(Copyright Nicholas Bhajan/CA-Images/Wired868)
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Ja­mal Creighton fired in a hat-trick as Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers ham­mered Guaya Unit­ed 7-0 to climb in­to the fourth spot in the As­cen­sion In­vi­ta­tion­al Foot­ball League Di­vi­sion One at La Hor­quet­ta Recre­ation Ground, La Hor­quet­ta on Tues­day night.

In the resched­uled match, na­tion­al strik­er Kadeem Corbin opened the scor­ing in the sev­enth minute for Rangers be­fore Samuel Delice dou­bled the ad­van­tage eight min­utes lat­er. The team got the third item two min­utes in­to time added on at the end of the first-half by Creighton.

Creighton made it 4-0 in the 57th minute with his sec­ond on the night while Jo­moul Fran­cois fired in his fifth of the cam­paign in the 74th to ex­tend the ad­van­tage to 5-0.

With nine min­utes left in the match, Creighton com­plet­ed his tre­ble to car­ry his sea­son tal­ly to four, be­fore Keron "Ball Pest" Cum­mings round­ed off the scor­ing four min­utes in­to time added-on

The vic­to­ry lift­ed Rangers to ten points from four match­es, lev­el with Cunu­pia FC and FC San­ta Rosa, but ahead of goal-dif­fer­ence.

At the top of the 12-team ta­ble is De­fence Force with 19 points from sev­en match­es, one ahead of Mor­vant Cale­do­nia AIA which has max­i­mum 18 points from six match­es, fol­lowed by San Juan Jabloteh with 12, and a match in hand as well.

To­mor­row, Rangers will have a chance to move one more spot up the ta­ble in­to third, when they en­ter­tain

sev­enth-placed Club San­do at La Hor­quet­ta from 6 pm

Tuesday's Results

Di­vi­sion One

La Horquetta Rangers 7 (Ja­mal Creighton 45th +2, 57th, 81st, Kadeem Corbin 7th, Samuel Delice 15th, Jo­moul Fran­cois 74th, Keron Cum­mings 90th+4) vs Guaya Unit­ed 0

Upcoming Fixtures

(Friday 30 August)

Terminix La Horquetta Rangers v Club Sando, 6pm, La Horquetta;

(Sunday 1 September)

Cunupia FC v Prison Service, 4pm, Larry Gomes Stadium;

Matura ReUnited v San Juan Jabloteh, 4pm, Matura Recreation Ground;

Guaya United v M’vt Caledonia AIA, 6pm, Guaya Recreation Ground;

Police FC v QPCC, TBD;

Defence Force v FC Santa Rosa, TBD.