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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

W Connection snatches Toyota Classic title on penalty kicks

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Na­tion­al goal­keep­er Jan Michael Williams showed his skills when he made a bril­liant save to de­ny Ja­mal Ayres and W Con­nec­tion cel­e­brat­ed the 2011 Toy­ota Clas­sic ti­tle. W Con­nec­tion de­feat­ed T&TEC 5-4 on penal­ty kicks fol­low­ing a goal­less score­line af­ter reg­u­la­tion time at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la. Strik­er Ker­ry Bap­tiste, play­ing on lo­cal soil af­ter near­ly a year, de­buted for T&TEC as a late sub­sti­tute and stepped up for the first kick which he com­plet­ed with a trade­mark fin­ish. Team­mate Javed Mo­hammed smashed in his strike for T&TEC's sec­ond be­fore Ayres was de­nied by the bril­liance of Trinidad and To­ba­go in­ter­na­tion­al goal­keep­er Williams. Kern Cu­pid, Mekeil Williams, Matthew Bartholomew and Akeem Ben­jamin were all on tar­get for Con­nec­tion in re­spec­tive or­der and even­tu­al Fi­nal MVP Shah­don Win­ches­ter sealed the vic­to­ry with his kick in the fifth against goal­keep­er Phillip.

Sec­ond half sub­sti­tute Mar­cus Joseph and Kelvin Mod­este were T&TEC fourth and fifth kick­ers bury­ing their ef­forts in vain.

T&TEC play­ing in its back­yard didn't give a bad ac­count reach­ing its sec­ond Fi­nal in as many knock­out tour­na­ments this sea­son - the First Cit­i­zens Cup be­ing the oth­er. For­mer W Con­nec­tion mid­field­er An­dre Pacheco had the first at­tempt on goal in the 10th minute swing­ing a low right foot­ed ef­fort which was blocked out by Williams. Three min­utes lat­er Con­nec­tion's An­dre Quashie broke lose on a for­ward pass by Win­ches­ter and ex­e­cut­ed a neat chip against out­rush­ing goal­keep­er Phillip, how­ev­er Corneal Thomas res­cued his the cur­rent Dig­i­cel Pro League lead­ers by pick­ing up the ball just be­fore the goal-line. In the 21st minute Sylvester Tees­dale showed some good pace on the left­side be­fore touch­ing past de­fend­er Eli­jah Joseph in­side the W Con­nec­tion area but self­ish­ly went for goal from an an­gle with team­mate Ker­lon Fer­gu­son wait­ing in­side the area. Goal­keep­er Williams had no prob­lem wrap­ping the ef­fort. But in the 27th minute Williams had a big­ger task­ing in block­ing out a blast by Pacheco. W Con­nec­tion's Win­ches­ter was inch­es wide of the far post in the 33rd minute and team­mate An­dre Quashie wider in the 34th minute clos­ing off ef­forts in the keen­ly con­test­ed first half.

Fol­low­ing the break Win­ches­ter was de­nied by Phillip in the 46th minute af­ter he was played at the edge of the area by Bartholomew. In the 56th Bartholomew him­self was de­nied by his for­mer team­mate, Phillip, who pulled off a low save on an ef­fort from in­side the area. T&TEC con­tin­ued to hunt for open­ings with some good pos­ses­sion plays. But it was W Con­nec­tion who had the bet­ter op­por­tu­ni­ties, even a gift in the 81st minute when an er­rant pass by Coneal Thomas al­lowed Cu­pid an at­tack­ing run on the right be­fore feed­ing Win­ches­ter who layed off to Jo­evin Jones. Again Phillip pulled off a fine save, this time deny­ing the Con­nec­tion at­tack­ing wing­back. From the re­sult­ing cor­ner, Jones outswinger was met by Mekeil Williams who head­ed wide. When the fi­nal whis­tle sound­ed af­ter the last spot kick T&TEC was left emp­ty-hand­ed yet again. T&TEC lost the FCB Cup to Cale­do­nia AIA. The tour­na­ment fea­tured the best TT Pro League and Su­per League teams. Mean­time, W Con­nec­tion, in­au­gur­al win­ners back in 2005, cel­e­brates its first ti­tle since fin­ish­ing last sea­son emp­ty hand­ed.

FULL-TIME SCORE: T&TEC FC 0 - 0 W Con­nec­tion

Teams

T&TEC FC: Mar­vin Phillip(gk) Kern Pe­ters(capt.), Coneal Thomas, Javed Mo­hammed, Sylvester Tees­dale(Ker­ry Bap­tiste 73rd)(yel­low card), Bevon Bass(Ja­mal Ayres 63rd), An­drei Pacheco(Mar­cus Joseph 80th), Aubrey David, Akeem Aadms, Ker­lon Fer­gu­son, Kelvin Mod­este. Coach-Dex­ter Cyrus

W Con­nec­tion: Jan Michael Williams(gk)(capt.), Mekeil Williams Eli­jah Joseph(Akeem Ben­jamin 75th) Jo­mal Williams Ke­muel Rivers Kern Cu­pid Hashim Ar­cia(Jo­evin Jones 65th) An­dre Quashie(Jer­rel Brit­to 65th) Matthew Bartholomew Shah­don Win­ches­ter(yel­low card 67th) Ger­rard Williams. Coach-Stu­art Charles Fevri­er

How They kicked:

T&TEC 4 W Con­nec­tion 5

Ker­ry Bap­tiste(scored) Kern Cu­pid(scored)

Javed Mo­hammed(scored) Mekeil Williams(scored)

Ja­mal Ayres(saved) Matthew Bartholomew(scored)

Mar­cus Joseph(scored) Akeem Ben­jamin(scored)

Kelvin Mod­este(scored) Shah­don Win­ches­ter(scored)


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