A stun­ning fin­ish by teenag­er Dwight Quin­tero and an ac­ro­bat­ic item by Run­dell Win­ches­ter, both in the sec­ond half, sep­a­rat­ed SIS Cen­tral FC from De­fence Force for a 3-1 come-from-be­hind win on the open­ing match of the 2013-14 Dig­i­cel Pro League, at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, on Fri­day night.Ker­ry Joseph head­ed the de­fend­ing league cham­pi­on, De­fence Force, 1-0 in front in the 7th minute with a well-ex­e­cut­ed head­er off Kevon Carter's cross from the left to beat a ful­ly stretched goal­keep­er Jan Michael Williams in­side the bot­tom cor­ner af­ter ref­er­ee Gyasi Mc­Don­ald al­lowed play to con­tin­ue fol­low­ing a foul on Samuel Delice by El­ton John.De­fence Force goal­keep­er, Kevin Gra­ham, lat­er pre­served his side's ad­van­tage in the 17th minute with back-to-back saves.The Army cus­to­di­an did well in a one-on-one sit­u­a­tion to cut out a strike by Jo­han Pelti­er who was played a neat through-ball by the 19-year-old Quin­tero, and Gra­ham re­cov­ered well to block out the re­bound ef­fort by Win­ches­ter.

But by the 27th minute the home side lev­eled the scores 1-1 from the penal­ty spot.Cen­tral was award­ed a penal­ty from a play in­volv­ing both cap­tains, when a cross by Ja­son Mar­cano struck the ex­tend­ed arm of Corey Rivers in­side the area.Mar­cano then con­fi­dent­ly blast­ed a low kick past Gra­ham to pull his team lev­el. The even­ly con­test­ed match picked up pace in front of a packed Ato Boldon Sta­di­um cov­ered stand, backed by an en­ter­tain­ing rhythm sec­tion.Then in the 67th minute, Pro League debu­tant Quin­tero and a both­er to the Army de­fense, cracked a low strike from 23 yards out to fit the ball per­fect­ly past Gra­ham and just in­side the up­right to put Cen­tral up 2-1.The for­mer El Do­ra­do Sec­ondary East stu­dent en­joy­ing a dream start to his pro­fes­sion­al ca­reer. And, the Ter­ry Fen­wick coached-Cen­tral was 3-1 by the 87th minute thanks to an ac­ro­bat­ic over­head strike by To­bag­on­ian Win­ches­ter.

Gra­ham con­test­ed Win­ches­ter out­side the area for a high ball but was beat­en by the bounce and the lanky for­ward, who had a few tries at goal pri­or, made no mis­take in find­ing the open net.

And, while Cen­tral had no prob­lems find­ing the back of the net, De­fence Force was clear­ly hav­ing a prob­lem with­out its most ef­fi­cient for­ward De­vorn Jorsling.Jorsling, cur­rent­ly on a pro­mo­tion­al course to­wards the rank of Army lance cor­po­ral, is un­avail­able for coach Ross Rus­sell for the month of Sep­tem­ber.In the oth­er match of the open­ing Pro League round, new­ly-added team Point Fortin Civic Cen­tre thrashed Po­lice FC 4-1. Last evening, four clubs were in ac­tion in a dou­ble-head­er clash at the same venue. St Ann's Rangers opened against Di­recTV W Con­nec­tion, be­fore Neal and Massy Cale­do­nia AIA took on North East Stars.

Re­sults

Cen­tral FC 3 (Ja­son Mar­cano 28th, Dwight Quin­tero 67th, Run­dell Win­ches­ter 82nd) v De­fence Force 1 (Ker­ry Joseph 7th)

Point Fortin Civic Cen­tre 4 (An­dre Tou­s­saint 15th, Mar­cus Joseph 36th, Matthew Bartholomew 38th, 85th pen) v Po­lice 1 (Todd Ryan 64th)