T&T's Un­der-17 women's foot­ball team was hand­ed a 8-0 thrash­ing by re­gion­al pow­er­house USA in the open­ing match of the 2013 Con­ca­caf U-17 Women's Cham­pi­onship, at the Mon­tego Bay Sports Com­plex, on Thurs­day, and will en­ter to­day's match against Cana­da know­ing its op­po­nent would be play­ing to win and ul­ti­mate­ly swell its goal dif­fer­ence.T&T faces Cana­da, from 3.30 pm lo­cal time. Cana­da and USA are the main con­tenders for the all-im­por­tant first spot which will give the suc­cess­ful team a spot in the semi­fi­nals. Cana­da shares top spot with USA fol­low­ing an­oth­er 8-0 thrash­ing on the same day, that over Guatemala.

Led by Mar­lon Charles, the T&T team al­ready stands lit­tle chance of com­pet­ing for the top spot. The team will play its fi­nal group match against Guatemala on Mon­day.Thurs­day's loss for the T&T team was a bit­ter one with the Amer­i­cans out­shoot­ing the So­ca Princess­es 39 to none. Nico­lette Craig, who start­ed in goal for T&T made eight saves in front of a flat de­fense. USA earned a 3-0 half time lead, be­fore scor­ing an­oth­er five goals in the sec­ond half. Mal­lo­ry Pugh scored a brace, while Ani­ka Ro­driguez, Mar­ley Canales, Madi­son Ha­ley, Civana Kuhlmann, Zoe Morse and Na­tal­ie Ja­cobs scored one goal each.With both the USA and Cana­da scor­ing eight, goal dif­fer­ence in the sec­ond round of Group B games will take on added im­por­tance as USA takes on Guatemala, while T&T plays Cana­da.