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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Soca Princesses blank Honduras 2-0

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T&T's So­ca Princess­es will be go­ing all out to se­cure a first ever semi­fi­nal spot in a Con­ca­caf Un­der-20 Women's Cham­pi­onship when it faces host Cay­man Is­lands in their sec­ond Group B en­counter at the Tru­man Bod­den Sports Com­plex, George Town, from 8.30 pm (9.30 pm TT time).In to­day's first match, Mex­i­co faces Hon­duras in a all-Cen­tral Amer­i­can from 5 pm (6 pm TT time).This af­ter the Iz­zler Browne-coached T&T women blanked Hon­duras 2-0 in their tour­na­ment open­er on Fri­day night with a goal each from cap­tain Anique Walk­er and Bri­an­na Ryce for its first win ever at this lev­el in six tour­na­ment ap­pear­ances while Mex­i­co dom­i­nat­ed Cay­man Is­lands 6-0 in the sec­ond match.For the match against the Cen­tral Amer­i­cans, who were mak­ing their tour­na­ment de­but, the So­ca Princess­es wore black arm­bands as a mark of re­spect for de­ceased na­tion­al men's play­er Akeem Adams.

And on a re­quest to Con­ca­caf from the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion, there was al­so a mo­ment's si­lence be­fore the start of the match in mem­o­ry of the for­mer play­er, who had ap­peared in the men's ver­sion of the Con­ca­caf U-20 World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing fi­nal round.When the match kicked off Hon­duras, which qual­i­fied for the tour­na­ment as win­ners of its four-team round-robin Cen­tral Amer­i­can group which al­so in­clud­ed Be­lize, El Sal­vador and Guatemala, start­ed bright­ly and re­mained ac­tive through­out the evening.In the 19th minute, Lau­ren Hall drib­bled in­to the right side of the T&T box and un­leashed a shot that goal­keep­er Tane­sha Palmer did well to palm over the cross­bar.Two min­utes lat­er, T&T went on at­tack as the in­flu­en­tial Patrice Camp­bell burst in­to the left side of the Hon­duran box, rip­ping an at­tempt that goal­keep­er Ke­lin Pal­ma couldn't catch, how­ev­er Maribiz Gue­vara was able to clear the ball from dan­ger.At the half-hour mark, Hon­duras was pre­sent­ed with a free-kick po­si­tioned at the up­per-right cor­ner of the penal­ty area. Hall's en­su­ing ef­fort did not miss by much as it whis­tled past the near post.

Ryce then showed some silky skills, drib­bling on the left-side and snaking a cross that trav­elled in front of the Hon­duran goal be­fore it was kicked out of bounds at the far post.T&T, though, would not pass up on the next op­por­tu­ni­ty that pre­sent­ed it­self in the 39th minute when Camp­bell de­liv­ered a cor­ner-kick that Walk­er flew through the air to meet pow­er­ful­ly and de­spite Pal­ma get­ting her hand to it, the ball re­bound­ed off the cross­bar and land­ed just over the goalline for the open­er.Two min­utes af­ter the in­ter­val, Camp­bell was in the thick of the ac­tion once again as the 19-year-old loft­ed a de­light­ful feed on the right side of the box to Donika Mur­ray, who cut back in­side and cracked a left-foot­ed shot that Pal­ma saved.The ball bounced around with Ryce and Camp­bell look­ing to fol­low up, but the Hon­durans kept it out of the net as the So­ca Princess­es searched for a sec­ond goal.Ryce even­tu­al­ly made it 2-0 in the 49th minute, send­ing a won­der­ful glanc­ing head­er past Pal­ma off a left-side cross from the ever-present Camp­bell.


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