Jour­ney­man Noel Williams missed out on a chance at a hat-trick while Po­lice missed a rare chance for a Dig­i­cel T&T Pro League vic­to­ry in an en­ter­tain­ing 3-3 draw with fel­low strug­glers St Ann's Rangers on Wednes­day night.

This was in a re-sched­uled match at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va.

De­spite miss­ing out on the tre­ble, Williams net­ted two sec­ond-half items while Ka­reem Per­ry got the oth­er for Po­lice on­ly for for­mer na­tion­al fut­sal (five-a-side small goal) play­er Mar­vin "Tiny" Lee to re­ply with a hat-trick for Rangers in their resched­uled Round Two Match Day Six clash.

Lee, a for­mer Joe Pub­lic play­er, first punched Rangers ahead 1-0 in the 13th minute by pok­ing in a low Ryan O'Neil cross past Po­lice third choice goalie An­tho­ny Mar­shall at the near post.

Four min­utes lat­er, Rangers had a great op­por­tu­ni­ty to dou­ble the ad­van­tage when Muham­mad Nakid was set free by a De­von Mod­este pass. How­ev­er, the mid­field­er squan­dered his curl­ing strike inch­es wide with on­ly Mar­shall to beat and three sup­port­ing play­ers at his dis­pos­al.

Po­lice tried des­per­ate­ly to lev­el the scores be­fore the break with Per­ry, Todd Ryan and Williams all com­ing close, how­ev­er they weren't suc­cess­ful un­til the sec­ond pe­ri­od.

In the 21st minute strik­er Per­ry failed to put a head­er off Dex­ter Al­leyne's cross on tar­get, and in the 28th minute Rangers' goal­keep­er Zane Cok­er pulled off a mag­nif­i­cent save to de­ny Todd Ryan's ef­fort des­tined for the far up­per cor­ner.

Winger Williams then shaved the up­right in the 45th minute with a glanc­ing head­er off an An­ton Hutchin­son free kick whipped in from the right as the law­men trailed a goal.

Two min­utes in­to the sec­ond half, Williams was at it again forc­ing a save out of Cok­er while at the oth­er end Rangers cap­i­talised on their op­po­nents' fail­ure to score by dou­bling their lead in the 49th minute with Lee snatch­ing his sec­ond on the night.

A quick re­lease by Keifer Ed­wards on the right beat­ing the out­stretched legs of left back Al­leyne, al­lowed Mod­este a free run in­to the area be­fore slip­ping a pass to Lee in­side the area to ham­mer past Cok­er.

The sec­ond goal by Rangers sparked the law­men in­to life as they hit back with three unan­swered goals for a sur­pris­ing 3-2 lead.

Williams fi­nal­ly pulled one back in the 53rd minute when he head­ed in a long Chris­ton Thomas cross at the back post beat­ing Cok­er to re­duce the deficit to 2-1 while Per­ry lev­elled the scores at 2-2 four min­utes lat­er with a low strike and on the hour mark.

Williams got his sec­ond of the match with a clin­i­cal fin­ish af­ter be­ing put through by a Eli­jah Bel­grave's fol­low­ing an ex­cel­lent build-up by the law­men.

In the end, both teams had to set­tle for the share of the points which left Po­lice sixth with 11 points, one ahead of Rangers, both from 14 match­es.

League match­es will re­sume to­mor­row at the Mar­vin Lee Sta­di­um, Macaoya with a dou­ble-head­er from 5 pm.

In the open­er, Po­lice bat­tles cel­lar-placed T&TEC which is com­ing off a morale boost­ing 1-1 draw with lead­ers De­fence Force which faces Rangers two hours lat­er.

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