As the second round of the Guyana Hockey Board’s (GHB) Under18, Second Division outdoor hockey league is set to conclude today, the current standings show the GCC teams are sitting at the top of the table across all four categories; Under 18 boys and girls and Second Division Men and Women.
In the Girls Under 18 category, GCC played just five games and have amassed a goal difference of 33, a feat accomplished since no team in the competition has been able to score a goal against their solid defence. As such, they accumulated 15 points. Abosaide Cadogan is the leading goal scorer, totaling nine goals which is more than any team’s combined tally of goals.
Double trouble! GCC’s Rahim Oliver (centre) and Kareem McKenzie (right) team up for most of their team’s success so far
In second position is debutant St. Joseph High school, who have played six games and earned themselves eight points. Saints, the other school based team in the division is in third position with seven points while Hikers sit at the bottom of the pile with only one point from five games.
Similarly, the GCC U-18 boys have been dominating their category, gathering 22 points from eight games. They lead the competition with 47 goals, the most by any team with Kareem McKenzie scoring 22 of those goals. McKenzie has maintained support and worked well with regular goal keeper, Rahim Oliver who is playing in the open field and have slotted in 10 goals to date.
In the U-18 category, GCC are trailed by Old Fort who has played the same amount of games but scored 13 points with 40 goals scored of which Omar Hopkinson has scored 14 and Courtney Marcus, 10. Saints sit in the middle of the five-team table on eight points from seven games while St. Joseph are ranked fourth and Hikers 5th after playing eight and seven games respectively.
Over in the second division women’s category, the GCC women are comfortably sitting on 15 points after five games to lead the table. The ladies have scored 32 goals to date with Aliyah Gordon scoring 10 of those. Shebiki Baptiste has scored eight goals as the two have managed to lead GCC to a dominating position.
Hikers has managed to sit in second position with nine points and scoring nine goals, four of which came from Kenisha Wills and three from Latacia Chung. Saints with four points take the third position while Old Fort is at the bottom having earned one point. All teams in this class have played five games.
In the Men’s second division GCC, who has two teams in the group, GCC A and GCC B have seen GCC B take the top of the group with 16 points and 23 goals. However, this group has seen the most competition as Old Fort are in second place trailing by just one point after both teams played seven matches. GCC A is in the third position with 11 points after just as many games. Saints, the only team to play eight games are in fourth place with 10 points while Hikers sit at the bottom of the table.
The action is set to resume today at the St. Stanislaus College Ground, Carifesta Avenue with six more breath taking games. With two playing fields available action will begin at 15:00h with Saints taking on Hikers in the U18 boys while the U18 girls will see a clash between Hikers and GCC.
At 15:50h, GCC A will battle Old Fort and Hikers go toe to toe with GCC B in the second division male matches while at 16:40h, the females will take to the field in the second division contest with Saints playing Hikers and GCC playing Old Fort.
