Burke’s 6 send Knockers packing

GHB/Lucozade Indoor Hockey Tournament…

—Bounty GCC beat Vintage

As the Guyana Hockey Board/Lucozade Indoor Hockey Tournament continues, the National Gymnasium saw two high quality matches between four of the top teams in the competition on Tuesday night.
In the first contest, Pitbulls were lead by the superb leadership of Ian Burke, who scored six out of the eight goals in their 8:4 decimation of Old Fort Knockers.

The competition looked to be close in the first half of play, as both teams showed the passion to win. Burke was the first to find the net, blasting past Knockers’ goalkeeper just three minutes into play. Knockers would then level the score when John Abrams managed to capitalise and score a penalty goal in the sixth minute.
Two minutes later, Meshach Sargeant found the goal to put Pitbulls in the lead and Burke’s penalty goal in the 10th minute secured a comfortable 3:1 lead. However, Robert Brumell was not going to let his team fall far behind, scoring his first goal for the night in the 11th minute.
Mark Sargeant found it easy to get through the defence of the Knockers in the 13th minute before Brumell returned for his second goal two minutes later, leaving the score 4:3.
Burke would then score his hat-trick in the 16th minute of play with the score remaining at 5:3 at the halfway mark.
The second half was the Burke show scoring three more goals while Knockers only could manage one.
Burke opened the second half with a lovely penalty goal, while scoring a perfectly timed field goal in the 27th minute. Burke would then score the eight goal for Pitbulls in the 33rd minute and Abrams’ 38th minute goal would leave the score standing at 8:4 by the end of the match in favour of Pitbulls.
Bounty GCC played the Vintage men in the second and final match of the night where they established themselves as the superior team handing Vintage an 8:3 defeat.
Vintage looked to make light work of the GCC team thanks to a quick fire double by Devin Hooper, who scored in the second and 10th minute with the score standing at 0:2. GCC would then respond with two goals of their own, coming off the stick of Kevin Spencer in the 12th and Peter De Groot in the 18th minute. The scores remained levelled at 2:2 by the end of the first half.
The second half completely belonged to the GCC men, due to doubles from Daniel Hooper and Spencer the team scored six goals, while Vintage could only muster one.
The 26th minute saw Hooper score his first while Spencer matched him with a magnificent goal in the 30th minute. One minute later, Steven Xavier scored his first for the night and the fifth goal for GCC via a penalty goal.
Hooper then scored in the 36th minute and Kareem McKenzie in the 37th, before Eric Hing managed a consolation goal in the 38th minute of play.
Spencer ended the night’s proceedings with his hat trick in the 39th minute, leaving Vintage well battered at 8:3.
The excitement continues on Friday at the same venue.