Tutorial Academy impress with 9-2 win over Tagore

Digicel’s School Football Championships…

— Orealla and NAMS to clash today

Tutorial Academy Secondary (TASS) is now one of the schools to watch as second round action continues in annual Digicel national schools knockout football tournament in Region Six (East Berbice/Corentyne). TASS outplayed an improved Tagore Memorial Secondary on Friday at the Skeldon Community Centre to win 9-2.
Scoring for TASS were Omar Crawford (3), Lumar Reid (2), and Joshua Myers also called Joshua Butts (2) and Oren Glen (2).
Tagore got their goals off the booths of Rodwell Rodriguez and Matthew Leives.
After Leives opened the scoring in the 8th minute, TASS realised that Tagore were there with a purpose and Crawford got the equalizer in the 14th minute, Rodriguez then put his team ahead again three minutes later only to have Reid equalize in the 19th minute.
Not satisfied, the strikers Crawford and Myers were joined by Butts who deserted the midfield. It brought TASS results in the 22nd minute when Crawford scored his second goal. One minute later Myers put his name on the scoring cards to give TASS a 4-2 lead.
TASS then continued to dominate but was being met with a strong defence from Tagore.
In the second half tactics were changed and it rained goals for TASS scoring in the 52nd, 67th, 70th, 77th and 80th minutes.
Captain of the side, Lumar Reid said the team was without its number one defense player which created some difficulty at the beginning on the game.
As impressive as TASS might have looked on Friday, they still have to worry about the attitude of Myers who received a yellow card in the game.
Myers has been known to be a frequent red card receiver and despite his skills with the ball, his attitude on the field during the remainder of the tournament could be the determining factor as to how far TASS will get in the tournament this year.
They have already proven their worth with a 2-0 win over arch rivals and powerhouse GuySuCo Port Mourant Training Centre and are now one of the favourites in zone six.
Meanwhile action continues today at the Skeldon Community Centre where crowd puller Orealla will take on New Amsterdam Multilateral.
Orealla with a large fan base will be starting as favourites and will be hoping to make it into the regional quarterfinals. (Andrew Carmichael)