Nigel Si­mon

Na­tion­al cap­tain Alan­na Lewis was the toast of her club­mates af­ter her 55th-minute field goal earned team Paragon a 2-1 win over Shandy Carib Mag­no­lias and with it the T&T Hock­ey Board Women's Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion "Big-Four" crown at the Na­tion­al Hock­ey Cen­tre, Tacarigua, on Sun­day night.

Go­ing in­to the match, Paragon (five points), win­ners of the league crown last week–their first in over two decades–need­ed max­i­mum points to fin­ish ahead of Notre Dame.

The Dames end­ed with sev­en points ear­li­er in the day af­ter a 2-0 blank­ing of Courts Malvern. A Blair Wynne brace in the 47th and 52nd min­utes sealed the deal.

Paragon got the start they want­ed when na­tion­al for­ward Zene Hen­ry fired in the go-ahead item in the 15th which they held on to un­til the in­ter­val.

De­spite be­ing out of con­tention for the ti­tle, Mag­no­lias were in­tent on play­ing 'par­ty spoil­ers' and drew lev­el in the 45th through for­mer na­tion­al stand­out, Stacey Siu Butt.

How­ev­er, ten min­utes lat­er, Lewis, the Paragon club cap­tain, net­ted what turned out to be the de­ci­sive item as her team end­ed with eight points, one more than the Dames, to keep hold of their ti­tle.

Leg­erton leads Oil­men to 4-0 vic­to­ry

The pro­lif­ic Wayne Leg­erton was among the goals once more with a dou­ble to lead Petrotrin to a 4-0 thrash­ing of De­fence Force and a suc­cess­ful de­fence of its Men's Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion "Big-Four" crown.

The Oil­men start­ed the day one point be­hind De­fence Force (four) and knew any­thing less than full points would leave the door open for its op­po­nent and Notre Dame to take the ti­tle.

How­ev­er, at the half, their nerves were at ease af­ter Alex Steele and Tris­ton Grant scored in the 17th and 25th minute re­spec­tive­ly for a 2-0 ad­van­tage at the half.

Leg­erton ex­tend­ed the lead to 3-0 in the 49th minute and four min­utes lat­er he com­plet­ed the drub­bing with his fifth goal of the tour­na­ment to se­cure yet an­oth­er ti­tle for the Oil­men, who had their five-year hold on the league ti­tle end­ed by Notre Dame ear­li­er this month.

In the day's oth­er match, the Dames got the bet­ter of Queen's Park CC 2-0 via penal­ty-stroke shoot-out af­ter both teams bat­tled to a 3-3 draw at the end of the 70-minute con­test.

T&T Hock­ey Board Big-Four re­sults and fi­nal stand­ings

Men's Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion

Notre Dame 3 (Shaquielle Daniel 7th, Dil­lon Camp­bell 21st, Kei­th De Peza 24th) vs QPCC 3 (Jar­ry­on Paul 22nd, Matthew Tang Nian 30th, Raphael Govia 42nd)–Notre Dame won 2-0 on penal­ty-stroke shoot-out

Petrotrin 4 (Wayne Leg­erton 49th, 53rd, Alex Steele 17th, Tris­ton Grant 25th) vs De­fence Force 0

FI­NAL MEN'S STAND­INGS

Teams P W D L F A PSW PSL Pts

Petrotrin 3 2 0 1 9 2 0 0 6

Notre Dame 3 1 1 1 6 8 1 0 5

De­fence Force 3 1 1 1 7 8 0 1 4

QPCC 3 0 2 1 6 10 1 1 3

Women's Cham­pi­onship

Paragon 2 (Zene Hen­ry 15th, Alan­na Lewis 55th) vs SC Mag­no­lias 1 (Stacey Siu Butt 45th)

Notre Dame 2 (Blair Wynne 47th, 52nd) vs Courts Malvern 0

FI­NAL WOMEN'S STAND­INGS

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Teams P W D L F A PSW PSL Pts

Paragon 3 2 1 0 8 3 1 0 8

Notre Dame 3 2 1 0 6 3 0 1 7

Mag­no­lias 3 0 1 2 3 5 1 0 2

Malvern 3 0 1 2 2 7 0 1 1

NB: PSW – penal­ty-stroke win = two points, PSL – penal­ty-stroke loss = one point