H & L Winners Connection, Aroaima record wins

UDFA/GT Beer Year End Football Championship…

Haynes and Lewis’ Winners Connection battled their way past Hi Stars 4-3, while Aroaima downed Amelia’s Ward Panthers 1-0, as the Upper Demerara Football Association’s GT Beer Year-End Football Championship continued on Sunday night at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground.

Javon Archer

Playing in the first game, Damian Williams and Marmalaque Davidson each got doubles in the win for the Winners Connection club, after Hi Stars had thrice fought back to level the scores in the close encounter.
Williams gave his team the lead in the 8th minute, before Hi Stars’ Elijah Samuels netted to draw the game level. Then Williams got his second goal in the 12th minute, to give his side a 2-1 lead before Osaho Rose knotted the scores 2-2 in the 20th minute for Hi Stars.
Then Marmalaque Davidson got his name onto the score sheet when he scored his first goal in the 36th minute to hand Winners Connection the lead, which they still possessed when the first half ended.

Marmalaque Davidson

But Hi Stars were not to be outdone, and in the 65th minute, Martin Leacock evened things out for the Hi Stars when he made the scores read 3-3.
However, Davidson gave his side the lead permanently with his second goal, scored in the 69th minute, which they maintained to the end of the encounter to come away with a 4-3 victory.
The other game on the double- header card ended with Aroiama coming away with a 1-0 win, which was decided in the first half of the game.
In the 28th minute, Javon Archer made the best of an opportunity which came following the goalkeeper’s error when he tried to save a shot from outside, and Archer tucked in the winning goal of the game.
The competition continues tomorrow (Wednesday) with two more matches; the first, at 19:00hrs, is between Botafago and Panthers; and the other, at 21:00hrs, features Silver Shattas and Coomacka.