W. Connection of Trinidad beat Bath Estate of Dominica 5-0 on Wednesday, opening its bid for a third Caribbean Club Champions Cup title with an impressive victory away from home.
In another game Wednesday, Suriname’s Inter Mangoe Tapoe won 3-1 at CSD Barber of Antigua. Inter will host the second leg on March 25 in Mangoe Tapoe.
The first legs of the three remaining series are set for later this week. On Saturday, Alpha United of Guayana will host Haiti’s Tempete FC, and Sevilla FC of Puerto Rico will be at home against the Green Bay Hoppers of Antigua.
The first legs of the first round will finish Sunday with SA Cavaly of Haiti host SV Britannia of Aruba.
The winners will advance along with San Juan Jabloteh of Trinidad for a second two-leg round in mid-April. The winners of the second round will qualify for single-game semifinals in Trinidad May 15 with the Puerto Rico Islanders. The final and third-place match will be played March 17 in Trinidad with three teams qualifying for next season’s CONCACAF Champions League.
W Connection drub Bath Estate 5-0.
T&T Express Reports.
Trinidad and Tobago's W Connection opened their bid for a third Caribbean Club Champions Cup title with an impressive 5-0 victory away from home on Wednesday night.
Connection hammered Dominican club Bath Estate 5-0 in Roseau. Trinidadian Hughtun Hector scored three times, while Dominican Republic strikers Jonathan Frias and Kerron Smith added one each for W Connection.
The T&T Pro League club will host the second leg of the first round series on March 25 at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium in Marabella.
W Connection coach Stuart Charles Fevrier selected a 17-man squad for the encounter, minus T&T internationals Andrei Pacheco, goalkeeper Marvin Phillip and Clyde Leon, who all played for the Soca Warriors against Panama at Marabella on the same night.