National youth team striker Brent Sam scored a goal in each half to lead San Juan Jabloteh to a 4-1 victory over North East Stars in the Under-18/Reserve Division of the Flow Youth Pro League on Sunday at Ojoe Road Recreation Ground, Sangre Grande.
In the second-half, it was all Jabloteh as Josiah Trimmingham (55th), Sam (80th) and Keon Alexander (89th) all netted to secure a third win from four matches for nine points, at the top of the table, one ahead of Central FC and Police FC, which battled to a goalless draw at the St James Police Barracks Ground.
Club Sando and Stars are next with seven points apiece after the latter missed a chance to go top following a 2-1 loss at against Pt Fortin Civic at Manny Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella.
In the Under-16 age-group, Jabloteh and long-time rival Morvant Caledonia AIA are level at the top with ten points each after contrasting results.
At Sangre Grande, Jabloteh needed a 70t minute item from Kyle Thomas to cancel out Koby Douglas’ 20th minute opener for third placed Stars (eight points) while at Frederick Settlement Ground, Caroni, Morvant Caledonia had four different players on target in a 4-2 whipping of Defence Force.
For Morvant Caledonia Malik Mieres, Trevis Byron and Emmanuel Cumberbatch were all on target in the first-half before Michael Poon-Angeron converted a penalty on the stroke of half-time for Defence Force to trail 3-1.
Five minutes after the restart Jakeem Mc Neil added another for Defence Force to cut the deficit to 2-3, but Tarique Phillips made certain of victory for Morvant Caledonia with fourth strike in the 75 th minute.
And in the Under-12 Division, Defence Force maintained the lone 100 per cent winning record in the league with a 2-0 shut-out of Morvant Caledonia led by a double from Justin Araujo-Wilson in the 30th and 68th for maximum 12 points, two ahead of Jabloteh which drew 2-2 at Stars.
W Connection and Pt Fortin Civic are joint third with eight points each.
Results
Under-14 Division:
W Connection 2 (Adika Ash 22nd, 26th) vs St Ann’s Rangers 0
Defence Force 2 (Justin Araujo-Wilson 30th, 68th) vs Morvant Caledonia AIA 0
Police FC 1 (Justin Modeste 7th) vs Central FC 0
North East Stars 2 (Kiel Lopez 52nd, 54th) vs San Juan Jabloteh 2 (Micai Peters 15th, Jarique Williams 68th)
Club Sando 0 vs Pt Fortin Civic 0
Under-16 Division:
W Connection 5 (Mark Ramdeen 4th, 9th, 70th, Jaden Joseph 15th, Tyrike Andrews 46th) vs St Ann’s Rangers 0
Morvant Caledonia 4 (Malik Mieres 3rd, Trevis Byron 32nd, Eammanuel Cumberbatch 33rd, Tarique Phillips 75th) vs Defence Force 2 (Michael Poon-Angeron 44th pen, Jakeem Mc Neil 50th)
Central FC 5 (Tyrese Spicer 23rd, 54th, Tyrique Muhammed 61st, 75th, Sherwin Williams 67th pen) vs Police FC 0
North East Stars 1 (Koby Douglas 20th) vs San Juan Jabloteh 1 (Kyle Thomas 70th)
Club Sando 1 (Seon Shipply 14th) vs Pt Fortin Civic 1 (Ackeel Jacob 65th)
Under-18/Reserve Division:
W Connection 2 (Isaiah Hudson 27th, 69th) vs St Ann’s Rangers 0
Morvant Caledonia AIA 0 vs Defence Force 0
Police FC 0 vs Central FC 0
San Juan Jabloteh 4 (Josiah Trimmingham 55th, Brent Sam 7th, 80th, Jean Keon Alexander 89th) vs North East Stars 1 (Kehson Hackshaw 44th)
Pt Fortin Civic 2 (Nivon Lamy 35th, Jeremiah Kesar 45th) vs Club Sando 1 (Adrian Mc Laren 54th pen)