Shane Legerton scored a hat-trick to lead Police to a comfortable 3-0 defeat of Fatima for a third straight win in the T&T Hockey Board (T&THB) Men's Championship Division at the National Hockey Centre, Tacarigua on Sunday night.
Legerton, formerly of Defence Force got his goals in the eighth, 46th and 60th minute for the Lawmen, now with maximum nine points, three ahead of Queen's Park Cricket Club and Malvern.
Paragon picked up its first points of the campaign after three matches, courtesy a 5-0 bashing of Shape led by two goals each from Joel Daniel and Kiel Murray.
Daniel netted in the 25th and 59th and Murray, in the 27th and 57th while Tariq Singh got the other item in the 50th for Paragon, now level on three points with Fatima and Notre Dame.
On Saturday, in the lone Women's Championship Division encounter, Shandy Carib Magnolias got win number three from four matches, 3-0 over Harvard Checkers with a goal each from the national trio, Shaniah De Freitas (22nd), Chelsea Dey (23rd), and Brittney Hingh (60th).
On Wednesday, Felicia King scored the lone goal as the T&T senior women's hockey won for the second time in as many matches, 1-0 over Harvard Checkers in the Women's Championship Division.
King found the back of the net in the 34th minute for the Anthony Marcano-coached national women’s team who are competing in the TTHB Women’s Championship Division competition as part of their preparations for next year’s Pan American Challenge which will be contested in Lima, Peru from June 27 to July 5.
At the end of the Pan American Challenge, the top two teams will qualify to the 2021 Pan American Cup, to be held here in T&T.
RESULTS
Women's Championship
T&T Women 1 (Felicia King 34th) vs Harvard Checkers 0
Mixed Veteran
Malvern 3 (Damian Gordon 2, Korry Barnett) vs Notre Dame 3 (Keith De Peza, Cheryl John, Joel Le Gendre)
Police 6 (Suzette Pierre 2, Nigel Carty, Aaron Mc Kenzie, Dwain Quan Chan, Nicholas Wren) vs Carib 0
Trinity Men
QPCC 14 (Alan Henderson 20th, 22nd, 32nd, 53rd, 60th, Dominic Young 8th, 37th, Shawn Lee Quay 19th, 35th, Michael Durity 22nd, 45th, Brandon Clarke 51st, 57th, Rafael Govia 55th) vs Paragon 0
Women's Championship
SC Magnolias 3 (Shaniah De Freitas 22nd. Chelsea Dey 23rd, Brittney Hingh 60th) vs Harvard Checkers 0
Trinity Women
Police 0 vs Paragon 0
SC Magnolias 2 (Chelsea Dey 15th, 36th) vs Ventures 0
Men's Championship:
Police 3 (Shane Legerton 8th, 46th, 60th) vs Fatima 0
Paragon 5 (Joel Daniel 25th, 59th, Kiel Murray 27th, 57th, Tariq Singh 50th) vs Shape 0