FC Santa Rosa stays on title course

On Sat­ur­day, the team nick­named the 'Big Can­nons' opened up a three-point mar­gin on its clos­est ri­vals Queen's Park Crick­et Club (QPCC) fol­low­ing a con­vinc­ing 5-1 thrash­ing of Prison Ser­vices FC at the Ari­ma Velo­drome, tak­ing it fur­ther in the lead to 54 points in 23 match­es.

Queen's Park, the on­ly team ca­pa­ble of catch­ing San­ta Rosa, gave them­selves a shot in the leg the day af­ter (Sun­day) by drop­ping two valid points in a 2-2 tie with the de­fend­ing cham­pi­on team Guaya Unit­ed at St Mary's Col­lege Ground in St Clair.

How­ev­er, at the Velo­drome, the home team made sure of max­i­mum points cour­tesy a dou­ble from in­stru­men­tal strik­er Keron Clarke in the space of two min­utes, 92nd and 93rd.

How­ev­er, it was the vis­i­tors who scored first when Nathan Julien found the nets in the 31st minute. There­after, it was all San­ta Rosa with Noel Williams find­ing the equalis­er in the 56th minute. Sev­en­teen min­utes lat­er the home team took the lead and ex­tend­ed it in the space of a minute. First An­dre Ram­per­sad found the back of the net in the 73rd minute to knot the scores up, and be­fore the Prison Ser­vice's de­fence could have re­grouped, Ryan Stew­art added an­oth­er for a 3-1 ad­van­tage.

With the loss, the Pris­ons' of­fi­cers main­tained third on the stand­ings with 44 points. At St Clair 'the Parkites' had to come from be­hind to share the points with Guaya. They got goals from Bene­dict Bar­rett in the 74th and De­von Mod­este in the 84th.

Guaya, the 2017 cham­pi­on team is dis­tant fourth on the stand­ings with 39 points, scored through Ke­ston Fron­tin (39th) and Glen­ton Wolfe on the stroke of half-time.

San­ta Rosa will next face Met­al X Erin F.C on Sat­ur­day at the Erin Recre­ation Ground from 6 pm, while the Parkites will jump in­to ac­tion a day lat­er at the Knowles Street Recre­ation Ground in Curepe against RSSR FC from 3:30 pm.

RE­SULTS

Club San­do F.C. 0 vs Po­lice F.C 2 (Dwayne Gon­za­les - 9th & 82nd)

Matu­ra Re­Unit­ed F.C. 1 (Bren­don Figuera - 40th) vs Bethel Unit­ed F.C 2 (Akeilon Mur­phy 43rd, Ro­han Se­bro 70th)

UTT 2 (J'Deem Par­ris 21st, Moses Jaikaran 24th) vs Cunu­pia F.C 2 (Kevon Wood­ley 6th & 73rd)

FC San­ta Rosa 5 (Noel Williams 56th, An­dre Ram­per­sad 73rd, Ryan Stew­art 73rd, Keron Clarke 92 & 93rd) vs Prison Ser­vice F.C 1 (Nathan Julien 31st)

QPCC 2 (Bene­dict Bar­rett 74th, De­von Mod­este 84th) vs Guaya Unit­ed F.C 2 (Ke­ston Fron­tin 39th, Glen­ton Wolffe 45th)

Pe­tit Val­ley/Diego Mar­tin Unit­ed 3 (Own Goal (Ke­ston Grant) 62nd, Akeil Thomas 83rd, Chris­tain Vin­cent 90th) vs San Fer­nan­do Gi­ants 2 (Je­re­my Primus 42nd, Cory Cyrus 87th)

RSSR F.C. 0 vs Met­al X Erin F.C 0 (RSSR wins by de­fault)

LAT­EST STAND­ING

TEAMS*P*W*D*L*F*A*GD*PTS
1*FC San­ta Rosa*23*17*3*3*66*22*44*54
2*QPCC*23*15*6*2*69*28*41*51
3*Prison Ser­vice F.C.*23*12*8*3*41*29*12*44
4*Guaya Unit­ed F.C.*22*12*6*4*44*26*18*39
5*Cunu­pia F.C.*22*10*8*4*44*25*19*38
6*Po­lice F.C.*22*9*5*8*34*31*3*32
7*Matu­ra Re­Unit­ed F.C.*23*8*7*8*52*57*-5*31
8*RSSR F.C.*22*7*7*8*31*36*-5*28
9*UTT*23*8*5*10*36*40*-4*26
10*Pe­tit Val­ley/Diego Mar­tin Utd.*23*6*4*13*27*51*-24*22
11*San Fer­nan­do Gi­ants F.C.*23*4*9*10*31*48*-17*21
12*Bethel Unit­ed F.C.*23*5*5*13*32*57*-25*20
13*Club San­do F.C.*23*4*3*16*21*42*-21*15
14*Met­al X Erin F.C.*23*2*4*17*23*57*-34*7