Boys Town earned their first victory of the Caribbean Welders Fishing Pond Football League on Sunday to keep alive their faint hopes of qualifying for the ‘Big 8’. Playing at the Fishing Pond Recreation Ground, nothing would come easy for the former champions who had to toil for the three points.
Earlier, both teams seemed to have left their shooting boots at home, repeatedly firing high or wide or both in a frustrating first half for the respective coaches.
Conell Thomas flashed the first real chance at goal wide of Boys Town’s post after the ball fell to him in the box while Boys Town’s Shayden Primus looked uncertain and sluggish when played through on goal following a swift counter and lost the ball.
Eclipse midfielder Garvin George had Boys Town’s goalie Larry Mitchell scrambling to his right post when he hit one with his laces from close to halfline that flew just past the upright.
Boys Town should have went ahead soon after Primus made a surging run down the right flank and drilled the ball across the sixyard box where a late arriving Vincent could not direct his shot on target with the net gaping.
Seales had a good chance of opening the scoring too, trapping a diagonal pass, turning his marker but skewing his shot well over the bar.
Eclipse goalie Jameile Simon was later caught in no-mans land but Boys Town still could not break the deadlock as two shots were cleared off the line.
Persistence paid off in the second half though and Boys Town got a deserved lead. Eclipse custodian Simon failed to get a telling contact on a punch from a cross on the right by Samuel Bain and Vincent was there at the far post to direct his header into the net. Eclipse responded immediately but Seales, after drifting past two defenders on the edge of the penalty area, sent his right-footed shot into orbit. Boys Town almost made it 2-0 when Primus collected a pass that put him oneon- one with the ‘keeper but he attempted to dribble around Simon and was dispossessed.
Their profligacy would come back to haunt them when a free-kick was flicked on by towering substitute Kendell Valere and an unmarked Seales butted the ball past an onrushing Mitchell in goal.
Boys Town would not be denied though and Vincent did well to evade his defender on the left and let loose a shot from a tight angle which squirmed under the body of the goalkeeper before Chandol cleaned up the mess with a simple tap-in.
In other results recently, North Oropouche won a thriller 6-5 against champions G Madrid to rise to third in the standings.
Also, Take That and Cool It took care of business 3-0 against Old School, Gremio and Dream Team drew 1-1; Dragon hammered Gremio 4-1; North Oropouche whipped Eclipse 5-1; Take That and Cool It edged Coca All-Stars 4-3; Dream Team crushed Spartan 8-2; Manzanilla got past Old School 4-0.