Guinness Greatest in the Streets East Coast leg off to brisk start
The East Coast Demerara leg of the annual Guinness Greatest in the Street Football tournament kicked-off on
Action between Melanie B (Green bib) and Annadale Warriors
Thursday night with ten action packed matches at the Haslington market Tarmac.
In the first match of the night, between Paradise and Little Mafia, national player Quincy Adams (6th and 11th minutes) helped himself to two goals to ease Paradise to comfortable 2-0 win.
Game two was a clash between Portmore United and Plasiance “A”, with the latter 2-1 thanks due a Kester Greene double while Seon Singh was the lone scorer for the opposition.
In the other matches, Nabacalis won 2-0 over Young Jiggers; Royan Morrison in the 13th and Kevin Glasgow (20th) were the men to score.
Melanie “B” inflicted a 3-0 hammering on Annandale Warriors, with Odel Gulliver, Ryan Seales and Rashawn Charles etching their names on the score sheet in the 6th, 13th and 20th minutes respectively.
Bare Root “A” suffered a 2-1 loss to 1 Company All-Stars after Christopher Adams gave them the lead in the 6th but the All Stars team hit back with goals from Quason McLean (12th) and Lancelot Griffith (20th).
The summaries scored of the other matches are below.
BV-B-4 vs Non-Pariel Warriors-0. (Erin Fraser-14th and 16th, Edun Fraser-12th)
Plaisance-B-1 v Golden Grove South-0 (Denzil King-3rd)
Melanie-A-4 vs Haslington Hypers-0 (Dexroy Sullivan-11th and 16th, Williams Europe-5th, Rondel Bowman-14th)
Golden Grove North – 0 vs Team Diamond -1 (Orin Fraser-4th)
Victoria Church Yard – 1 vs North Haslington-1; Victoria won 1-0 on penalty kicks.
(Victoria Scorer: Akeem Holder-8th; North Haslington Scorer: Randy Waldron-2nd)
The Finals are slated for Sunday at the same venue.
