Nigel Si­mon

Suri­name's In­ter Mo­en­go­tapoe se­cured a place in the sec­ond round of the Caribbean Foot­ball Union Club Cham­pi­onship af­ter it edged nine-man Huben­tut For­tu­na of Cu­ra­cao, 3-2 in its fi­nal Group Two First Round qual­i­fi­er at Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um, Guyana on Sat­ur­day night. In­ter, win­ners of their first two match­es, on­ly need­ed a draw to top the group but a minute be­fore the in­ter­val, Patrick Jim­my opened the scor­ing on­ly for Jose Cha­cas to get For­tu­na back even, on the stroke of half-time. For­tu­na, which need­ed a vic­to­ry to keep its hopes alive, went ahead through Dwight Bel­liot on the hour mark.

How­ev­er, Bel­liot was then shown a sec­ond yel­low card for his overzeal­ous cel­e­bra­tions which left his team down to ten men. With­in five min­utes, In­ter made use of its play­er ad­van­tage as Ives Vli­jter got the equalis­er be­fore Ste­fano Ri­js­sel fired in the go-ahead item five min­utes lat­er for a 3-2 lead. With the win, In­ter end­ed with a max­i­mum nine points while For­tu­na re­mained on three points. Al­pha Unit­ed (six points) which got a dou­ble from An­tho­ny Abrams, in the sev­enth and 80th minute to blank Mile­rock 2-0 in an all-Guyana clash, made full use of For­tu­na's slip up and se­cured the fi­nal sec­ond round spot as the best run­ner up from the three groups.

Over at the Stade Sylvio Cator, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Bony Pierre scored a last minute equalis­er as Vic­to­ry snatched a 1-1 draw with fel­low Hait­ian club Bal­ti­more to top the group on goal dif­fer­ence af­ter both teams end­ed with four points.

Four min­utes ear­li­er To­nio Pierre had giv­en Bal­ti­more the lead and what looked like a late win­ner. In­ter and Vic­to­ry now join Group One win­ner, Cay­man Is­lands' club, George­town and Al­pha Unit­ed (the best run­ner up from the three groups) in the sec­ond-round eight-team group stage from May 1-6.

George­town and Al­pha Unit­ed will com­pete with seed­ed sides, Puer­to Ri­co Is­landers-the two-time de­fend­ing cham­pi­on-and T&T's Cale­do­nia AIA in one group while In­ter and Vic­to­ry join T&T's W Con­nec­tion-a four-time cham­pi­on (2001, 2002, 2006, 2009) and two-time run­ner up (2000 & 2003)-and Bar­racu­d­as FC of An­tigua, in the oth­er group from May 1 to 5. The win­ners and run­ners up from the two groups will ad­vance to the CFU club cham­pi­onship fi­nals May 23-27, with three teams qual­i­fy­ing for next sea­son's Con­ca­caf Cham­pi­ons League.

Re­sults

Group Two

Venue: Prov­i­dence Sta­di­um, Guyana.

Tues­day:

Huben­tut For­tu­na 2 (Lisan­dro Trenidad 69th, Jose Cha­cas 79th) vs Mile­rock 1 (Keon Sears 31st).

In­ter Mo­en­go­tapoe 1 (Ste­fano Ri­js­sel 23rd) vs Al­pha Unit­ed 0

Thurs­day:

In­ter Mo­en­go­tapoe 7 (Ste­fano Ri­js­sel 8th, 87th, Patrick Jim­my 62nd, 76th, Jer­rel Aden­si­ba 28th, Clau­dio Pinas 52nd, Clarence Plien 86th) vs Mile­rock 1 (Jer­maine Fordyce 45th)

Al­pha Unit­ed 3 (An­drew Mur­ray 5th, An­tho­ny Abrams 25th, Daniel Wil­son 84th) vs Huben­tut For­tu­na 1 (Nellyson Fla­neur 59th)

Sat­ur­day:

In­ter Mo­en­go­tapoe 3 (Patrick Jim­my 44th, Ives Vli­jter 65th, Ste­fano Ri­js­sel 70th) vs Huben­tut For­tu­na 2 (Jose Cha­cas 45th, Dwight Bel­liot 60th)

Al­pha Unit­ed 2 (An­tho­ny Abrams 7th, 80th) vs Mile­rock 0

Group Three:

Tues­day:

Bal­ti­more 2 (Kenizy Titin 7th, An­ge­lo Dieu­juste 82nd) vs Baya­mon 0

Thurs­day:

Vic­to­ry 5 (Bony Pierre 22nd, 57th, 73rd, 82nd, Ri­car­do Charles 45th) vs Baya­mon FC 1 (Car­los Fer­nan­dez 64th)

Sat­ur­day:

Bal­ti­more 1 (To­nio Pierre 86th) vs Vic­to­ry 1 (Bony Pierre 90th)

Fi­nal Stand­ings

Group Two

Teams P W D L F A Pt

In­ter 3 3 0 0 11 3 6

Al­pha 3 2 0 1 5 2 6

Huben­tut 3 1 0 2 5 7 3

Mile­rock 3 0 0 3 2 11 0

Group Three

Vic­to­ry 2 1 1 0 6 2 4

Bal­ti­more 2 1 1 0 3 1 4

Baya­mon 2 0 0 2 1 7 0