— Stallions, Bounty GCC, Hikers also in winners row
BY ROMARIO SAMAROO
The Guyana Hockey Board’s Lucozade Indoor Tournament continued on Saturday night at the National Gymnasium, where four thrilling matches were played, seeing Pizza Hut GCC, Old Fort Stallions, Bounty GCC and Hikers emerging victorious.
Tricia Fiedtkou’s hat-trick ensured the Pizza Hut GCC ladies team destroyed the Old Fort ladies in the first match of the night.
Carina Moller scored a double in the first half of the match penetrating the Old Fort defense in just 4 minutes of play and again in the 10th minute.
Tricia Fiedtkou picked up where Moller left off to score her first goal in the 16th minute of play and another two minutes later to give the Pizza Hut GCC ladies a convincing 4:0 lead by the end of the first half.
Old Fort Stallions ( in white) making their way past the Pitbulls’ goalkeeper
Fiedtkou returned in the second half to score her third goal of the night as her team led five goals to nil. Gabriella Xavier made sure she was not kept out of the action, chipping in a goal of her own in the 27th minute to make the final score 6:0 in favor of Pizza Hut GCC at the end of the match.
In the second contest of the night Bounty GCC males went up against Saints males in what would turn out to be one of the best matches of the night.
It seemed as if it was anyone’s game the way these two teams were matched; Ato Greene scored the first goal in just 3 minutes of play for the Saints, but Daniel Hooper would not allow the Saints to slip away, leveling the scores in the 6th minute. Hooper then took the GCC based team in the lead with a superb goal in the 18th minute, leaving the score 2:1 by the half way mark.
Michael Craig and Peter de Groot found it easy to get past the defense of Saints, scoring in the 22nd and 23rd minute respectively, to give GCC a 4:1 lead. However, Greene fought valiantly but only managed one more goal in the 24th minute to leave the score 4:2 by the end of the match in favour of GCC.
The third match for the night and the second ladies meet saw Spartans contest against Hickers which proved to be a thrilling encounter.
Tekiesha Delion started off proceedings in the 8th minute when she registered the first goal for Hickers and the only goal for the first half.
Lana McCullock then scored in the 24th minute to take the Hickers to their second goal.
Spartans then managed to score a field goal in the 35th minute to end the game 1:2 in favour of Hickers.
In the final match of the night, Pitbulls crumbled to a 1:8 defeat at the hands of the Old Fort Stallions.
The entire match was dominated by the Stallions who found it very easy to get past the Pitbulls’ defense and piercing the goal keeper eight times.
Stallions were lead by Omar Hopkinson’s quadruple goals
Hopkinson opened the tally for the Stallions by getting past goalkeeper, Michael Hing in the 7th minute while Jason DeSantos got past him in the 10th minute. Hopkinson returned in the 14th minute to blast the third goal for Stallions and Jason Clarke scored his first in the 16th minute to take the score to 4:0. Hopkinson closed off the first half with the score 5:0 following his third goal, scored in the 19th minute. Clarke scored his second in the 21st minute while Hopkinson managed his fourth in the 35th minute followed by Chris LowKoan’s first in the 38th minute to take the score to 8:0.
Meshach Sargeant scored a consolidation goal in the 40th minute to end the game on a high with the score 8:1
