A 90th minute Glen Sut­ton goal on Fri­day night had T&TEC in full lu­mi­nos­i­ty, a to­tal con­trast to its sea­son, af­ter the cel­lar-po­si­tioned side held Dig­i­cel Pro League leader De­fence Force to a 1-1 draw, at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va.

Lead­ing league goalscor­er De­vorn Jorsling fired the sol­diers ahead in the 14th minute beat­ing goal­keep­er Aki­ni Adams from close range for an ear­ly 1-0 ad­van­tage af­ter he was played to­wards goal by a neat Jer­wyn Balt­haz­ar heeled pass. But, Jorsling's 13th league item wasn't enough to guide De­fence Force to max­i­mum points.

A de­ter­mined Sut­ton run in the fi­nal minute of reg­u­la­tion time end­ed with the sub­sti­tute T&TEC mid­field­er hit­ting in­to an open net from close up af­ter dis­man­tling the sol­diers de­fense to lev­el the scores 1-1 as coach Dex­ter Cyrus and com­pa­ny erupt­ed in­to joy.

How­ev­er, the rare point failed to nudge the "Elec­tric Boys" off the bot­tom of the ta­ble, with just five points from 14 match­es played at the end of round two.Mean­time, De­fence Force which re­mains at the top with 33 points, may have seen its sev­en-point ad­van­tage re­duced by sec­ond po­si­tioned Cale­do­nia AIA (26 points) based on the club's re­sult against St Ann's Rangers, at the Mar­vin Lee Sta­di­um, last evening.

De­fend­ing cham­pi­on Di­recTV W Con­nec­tion kept it­self in the race with 25 points in third fol­low­ing an im­pres­sive 5-2 come­back win over Po­lice in the sec­ond match of Fri­day's dou­ble-head­er at the Cou­va venue.

Had Jorsling found the back of the net again in the 21st minute for De­fence Force, it would have been an en­tire­ly dif­fer­ent sto­ry.But, in­stead with the goal at his mer­cy thanks to a per­fect­ly played Ross Rus­sell Jr cross from the left, Jorsling guid­ed mis­er­ably wide off the right boot in search of his favoured left.

T&TEC's ef­forts to lev­el the score be­fore the half saw teenag­er Nathaniel Gar­cia strike a free kick over­bar in the 29th minute, and in the 38th minute his crack at goal from a squared Brent Gar­cia free kick was tamed by goal­keep­er Kevin Gra­ham.

And, 11 min­utes in­to the sec­ond pe­ri­od T&TEC's goal­keep­er pro­vid­ed a su­perb sin­gle hand­ed stop to de­ny Rus­sell Jr, and then lat­er made two shutouts against Army sub­sti­tute Josi­mar Bel­grave, which kept the 'Elec­tric Boys' alive.

In the 76th minute sub­sti­tutes Roy and Bel­grave teamed up with Bel­grave hav­ing a go at goal, and in the 80th minute Adams made his sec­ond con­sec­u­tive save against the Army mid­field­er. Roy, too, had a good ef­fort on goal in in­jury time, on­ly to be stunned by a Eu­stace Dar­ius clear­ance.

T&TEC lat­er cel­e­brat­ed a point, an im­prove­ment from its 3-2 de­feat against the sol­diers back in the first round with two late goals, but could have cel­e­brat­ed much more this time had sub­sti­tute Sylvester Tees­dale put away an op­por­tu­ni­ty in the 66th minute. A poor clear­ance by the sol­diers land­ed the ball com­fort­ably for Tees­dale but his curl­ing ef­fort to­wards the right up­per cor­ner was per­fect height and pace for a com­fort­able Gra­ham gath­er.

Fri­day's re­sults

T&TEC 1 (Glen Sut­ton 90th) v De­fence Force 1 (De­vorn Jorsling 14th)

W Con­nec­tion 5 (Hashim Ar­cia 18th, An­drei Pacheco 20th, Jo­evin Jones 37th, 40th, 80th) v Po­lice 2 (Jameel Per­ry 6th, Eli­jah Bel­grave 76th)