For­mer win­ners, Di­recTV W Con­nec­tion and North East Stars will meet in the Lu­cozade Sport Goal Shield fi­nal. The de­cider will un­fold ei­ther on May 3 or 4 at a venue to be de­ter­mined.

This af­ter 2010 win­ner, Stars, de­feat­ed two-time beat­en fi­nal­ist De­fence Force 5-4 on sud­den-death penal­ties af­ter an en­ter­tain­ing 1-1 draw in the first semi­fi­nal at the Mar­vin Lee Sta­di­um, Ma­coya while 2009 cham­pi­on, W Con­nec­tion, dumped de­fend­ing cham­pi­on, Neal & Massy Cale­do­nia AIA 2-1 via brace from Jo­evin Jones in a very pedes­tri­an-like con­test.

For W Con­nec­tion and Cale­do­nia, it was a mat­ter of can­celling out each oth­er for most of the first-half, with the open­er com­ing six min­utes be­fore the break when Jones left foot­ed strike from out­side the 18-yard box de­flect­ed off Cale­do­nia de­fend­er Akeem Thomas, wrong foot­ing Grena­di­an goal­keep­er Shemel Loui­sion, and in­to the back of the net.

Just be­fore the break Cale­do­nia al­most pulled even but un­luck­ing for the live­ly Akim Arm­strong his goal­ward ef­fort was de­flect­ed just over the bar.

On the re­sump­tion, Cale­do­nia start­ed brighter of both clubs and should have drawn lev­el in the 54th minute when Arm­strong whipped in a right sided cross for strik­er Key­on Ed­wards, who in­stead of putting his head to the ball, tried to guide in it with his boot, but it sailed wide.

How­ev­er, with a minute Arm­strong would take it up on him­self to get his team lev­el as he cooly col­lect­ed a ball in­side the area and with time and space, slot­ted the ball in­to the right hand cor­ner of the goal with W Con­nec­tion goal­keep­er Ale­jan­dro Figueroa stuck to his line. With both teams play­ing at pedes­tri­an pace, the chance were slow to come by, but in the 73rd minute Loui­sion was forced in­to a save to de­ny a head­er by An­drei Pacheco off Kurt Fred­er­ick cross and six min­utes lat­er he watch­es on ner­vous­ly as a fierce left foot­ed free-kick frim Jones, skimmed off the head of a floored Aubrey David ful­ly and just missed the right hand bot­tom cor­ner of the post.

W Con­nec­tion sub­sti­tute Sil­vio Spann then un­leashed a pow­er­ful free-kick from a dis­tance which just missed the top left hand cor­ner of the goal af­ter beat­ing Loui­sion in flight.

But just as the teams looked to be head­ing for penal­ty-kicks Jones snatched a dra­mat­ic win­ner for W Con­nec­tion, when he curled a left foot­ed shot around two de­fend­ers and sub­sti­tute goal­keep­er Glen­roy Samuel and in­to the far cor­ner to spark off wild cel­e­bra­tions among his peers and tech­ni­cal staff.

The strike by Jones, came just sec­onds af­ter Samuel who is known to be a good penal­ty-kicks stop­per was in­tro­duced for Loui­sion who had done a great job up to that point.

In the night's open­er, San­gre Grande-based North East Stars at­tack­er Eli­jah Man­ners wel­comed a give­away by Sean Nar­cis and raced in­to the area be­fore let­ting off an at­tempt across goal in the 35th minute, which Ker­ry Bap­tiste slapped home at the back post.

How­ev­er that wasn't enough for the Stars, play­ing with­out po­tent strik­er Cor­nell Glen who was rest­ed be­cause of a calf strain suf­fered in the 1-0 se­mi-fi­nal win over Cen­tral FC.

De­fence Force winger Jemel Se­bro, who missed out on a gift­ed op­por­tu­ni­ty just 12 min­utes in­to the match off a Kevon Carter cross, re­turned the favour in the 51st minute for Carter, which the lat­ter head­er past goal­keep­er Cleon John to lev­el the scores 1-1.

The "Teteron Boys" who were beat­en by Stars in two of four per­vi­ous meet­ings this sea­son had fur­ther chances with strik­er De­vorn Jorsling hit­ting just wide in the 67th minute, and then Carter be­ing de­nied by John five min­utes lat­er from the six yard line.

De­fence Force sub­sti­tute Josi­mar Bel­grave was then de­nied by a Kaashif Thomas clear­ance in the 73rd minute while in the 86th Stars' Ja­maican sub­sti­tute Kei­thy Simp­son was de­nied twice by goal­keep­er Kevin Gra­ham at point blank range be­fore he rocked the cross bar with a head­er in the fi­nal minute to send the match to penal­ties.

Stars was first to kick with Eli­jah Man­ners and Ka­reem Moses both scor­ing while De­fence Force's Richard Roy and Cur­tis Gon­za­les al­so net­ted. Simp­spon then slammed Stars' third at­tempt against the cross­bar while Rodell El­cock scored to put De­fence Force ahead.

Stars then stayed in the match when Thomas scored while Bel­grave then saw his weak ef­fort par­ried away by John to leave both clubs lev­el at 3-3 af­ter four at­tempts each.

Hand­ed the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of his team's fifth at­tempt, the pint-size Hink­son came up big with a con­fi­dent put away while De­fence Force then cap­tain Corey Rivers re­spond­ed in sim­i­lar fash­ion to send the match to sud­den-death kicks, where for­mer Puer­to Ri­co Is­landers mid­field­er Kevon Vil­laroel scored be­fore his John eas­i­ly kept out a tame Jemel Se­bro right foot­er to send his team to an­oth­er fi­nal this sea­son af­ter beat­ing the same op­po­nents in the Toy­ota Clas­sic Cup fi­nal al­ready this sea­son, 4-2 on penal­ty-kicks win af­ter a 2-2 draw fol­low­ing with John mak­ing two penal­ty saves.

Fri­day's re­sults:

Semi­fi­nals:

D/Force 1 (Kevon Cater 51st) vs N/East Stars 1 (Ker­ry Bap­tiste 35th)–Stars won 5-4 on sud­den-death penal­ty-kicks

W Con­nec­tion 2 (Jo­evin Jones 39th, 90+2) vs Cale­do­nia AIA 1 (Akim Arm­strong 55th)

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