Na­tion­al for­ward Blair Wynne scored a lone first-half goal as Notre Dame re­bound­ed from a 4-1 drub­bing to Paragon for a 1-0 win over Har­vard Mar­itime Check­ers to keep their faint hopes of re­tain­ing the T&T Hock­ey Board Women's Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion "Big-Four" crown alive at the Na­tion­al Hock­ey Cen­tre in Tacarigua, yes­ter­day.

Fol­low­ing the loss to Paragon on Sat­ur­day night, the Dames were in a must-win sit­u­a­tion against Check­ers wo al­so had three points, and Wynne's 28th minute field goal proved enough for three points.

The win saw the Dames end their three match se­ries with six points, the same as Paragon which need­ed on­ly to avoid de­feat in reg­u­la­tion time against win­less Malvern last night to be crowned the new cham­pi­ons.

Check­ers, mean­while re­mained third with three points from three match­es, af­ter beat­ing Malvern 3-1 on Sat­ur­day night.

On Sat­ur­day, Paragon got goals from four dif­fer­ent play­ers to whip Notre Dame 4-1 to im­prove to max­i­mum six points and with­in one of claim­ing the "Big-Four" crown.

The trio of Kristin Thomp­son (4th), Zene Hen­ry (9th) and Danielle Thomp­son (28th), Kristin's old­er sis­ter all scored in the first-half for a com­fort­able 3-0 lead.

Two min­utes af­ter the re-start na­tion­al for­ward Blair Wynne pulled a goal back for the Dames, the de­fend­ing league cham­pi­ons, but that was as close as they got be­fore Keima Gar­diner added a fourth item for Paragon two min­utes from full-time.

Ear­li­er on Sat­ur­day, Char­nice Cato scored a goal on ei­ther side of the half to lead Har­vard Mar­itime Check­ers past Malvern 3-1 to keep their chances of lift­ing the ti­tle alive.

Losers of their first match to Paragon, 3-2 on Thurs­day night, Check­ers was des­per­ate to get in win­ners over Malvern, beat­en 5-4 by Notre Dame on Wednes­day.

Mindy Charles got Check­ers off to a fly­er with the open­ing goal af­ter on­ly three min­utes while Cato got her first in the 28th for a 2-0 half-time ad­van­tage.

With its chances of se­cur­ing the Big-Four crown fad­ing with every pass­ing sec­ond, Malvern threw every­thing at Check­ers and pulled a goal back via na­tion­al de­fend­er, Tere­sa Leza­ma in the 65th but with­in a minute Cato got her sec­ond and Check­ers' third to seal a 3-1 win and three points, the same as Notre Dame.

Petrotrin beat­en, but still grabs men's ti­tle

Paragon men came up one goal short in their bid to re­peat as cham­pi­ons of their Big-Four com­pe­ti­tion af­ter a 2-0 win over de­fend­ing league cham­pi­ons, Petrotrin in their top-of-the-ta­ble clash last night.

The Oil­men en­tered the match, win­ners of their pre­vi­ous two match­es and six points and need­ed on­ly a draw to de­throne their op­po­nents.

How­ev­er, Bar­ry Clarke fired Paragon in­to an eight minute lead while Petrotrin con­ced­ed a 16th minute own goal for a 0-2 deficit from which they nev­er re­cov­ered.

The re­sult meant, both Paragon and Petrotrin end­ed with six points and goal-dif­fer­ence of plus-two, but due to the Petrotrin's two out­right wins, com­pared to one by Paragon, the Oil­men were de­clared cham­pi­ons.

On Sat­ur­day night, Wayne Leg­erton helped him­self to a beaver-trick as Petrotrin drilled De­fence Force 5-2 for its sec­ond straight win in the men's com­pe­ti­tion.

The Oil­men 2-1 win­ners over Queen's Park in their open­er found them­selves trail­ing to a sixth minute Bri­an Bur­rows item for De­fence Force be­fore out-of-favour na­tion­al for­ward Leg­erton banged in three un-an­swered goals, in the 12th, 22nd and 34th for his team to lead 3-1 at the half.

Four min­utes in­to the sec­ond-half, Leg­erton whose younger broth­er Shane Leg­erton plays for De­fence Force, added an­oth­er while Tris­ton Grant, ex­tend­ed the ad­van­tage to 5-1 in the 45th.

With three min­utes left in the con­test, De­fence Force cap­tain and na­tion­al for­ward Mick­el Pierre got a sec­ond item for his team, but it was all in vain as Petrotrin ran out 5-2 win­ners and im­proved to max­i­mum six points, three ahead of its Paragon while De­fence Force has two and Queen's Park, none.

In Sat­ur­day's first men's en­counter, Paragon al­so stayed in the hunt for top ho­n­ours af­ter beat­ing Queen's Park 4-2 on penal­ty-flicks fol­low­ing a 1-1 draw.

Na­tion­al for­ward Akim Tou­s­saint had giv­en Paragon, the de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons a 19th minute lead which last un­til Kee­gan Dos San­tos' 66th minute equal­iz­er for the Parkites to send the match in­to penal­ty-flicks where his team fal­tered mis­er­ably, miss­ing their first two at­tempts.

The guilty cul­prits for the Parkites were cap­tain Shawn Lee Quay and Damien Bright while Kadeem For­tune and Nicholas Ca­ma­cho con­vert­ed.

How­ev­er, Paragon's na­tion­al trio of Kiel Mur­ray, Tou­s­saint and Tou­s­saint scored their team's first three at­tempt while fel­low na­tion­al play­er Christo­pher Sci­pio missed be­fore Co­gie But­ler, an­oth­er na­tion­al play­er sealed the two points.

Yes­ter­day's ear­ly T&THB Big-Four re­sults:

Women:

Notre Dame 1 (Blair Wynne 28th) vs HM Check­ers 0

Men:

Paragon 2 (Bar­ry Clarke 8th, own goal 16th) vs Petrotrin 0

Sat­ur­day:

Women's Cham­pi­onship:

Check­ers 3 (Char­nice Cato 28th, 66th, Mindy Charles 3rd) vs Malvern 1 (Tere­sa Leza­ma 65th pen)

Paragon 4 (Kristin Thomp­son 4th, Zene Hen­ry 9th, Danielle Thomp­son 28th, Keima Gar­diner 68th) vs Notre Dame 1 (Blair Wynne 37th)

Men's Cham­pi­onship

Paragon 1 (Akim Tou­s­saint 19th) vs QPCC 1 (Kee­gan Dos San­tos 66th) � Paragon won 4-2 on penal­ty-flicks.

Petrotrin 5 (Wayne Leg­erton 12th, 22nd, 34th, 38th, Tris­ton Grant 45th) vs De­fence Force 2 (Bri­an Bur­rows 6th, Mick­el Pierre 67t)

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