A dou­ble from for­ward Jameel Boatswain led De­fence Force to a 3-0 vic­to­ry over Re­al West Fort Unit­ed in the sec­ond match of a dou­ble-head­er at the Ari­ma Velo­drome in the As­cen­sion Foot­ball League on Sat­ur­day.

In the ear­li­er match, fourth-placed De­porti­vo Point Fortin (PF) edged last place Moru­ga Foot­ball Club, 2-1.

Boast­wain scored on ei­ther side of the half to help the army/coast guard com­bi­na­tion team keep pace with Ter­minex La Hor­quet­ta Rangers. Both teams have 23 points from sev­en wins and two draws and match goal-dif­fer­ence of 25 at the mid­way stage of the com­pe­ti­tion.

Boast­wain scored the open­er off a de­flect­ed cross which he con­trolled with one touch off his chest to bring it down and net­ted a vol­ley over Re­al West Fort goal-keep­er Jacques Poon-Lewis in the eighth minute to give De­fence Force a 1-0 lead.

The army/coast guard re­mained in search of a sec­ond goal and had sev­er­al close chances but it nev­er came as they closed the first half with the one-goal lead.

On the re­sump­tion, De­fence Force kept at­tack­ing and were re­ward­ed in the 58th minute from an­oth­er two-touch fin­ish from Boatswain, pok­ing the ball past Poon-Lewis.

The third item came from Dar­ius Ol­livier­ra who re­ceived a low cross from Brent Sam at the far post and fin­ished su­perbly in the 76th minute to give De­fence Force a 3-0 ad­van­tage which they held on to when time ex­pired.

In the open­ing match of the dou­ble-head­er, De­porti­vo PF got the ear­ly goal from Ezekiel Ke­sar in the fourth minute. How­ev­er, Moru­ga FC, coached by for­mer na­tion­al women’s play­er Der­nelle Mas­call, got the equalis­er from Keion La Rode, who beat De­porti­vo FC’s keep­er Mar­vin Phillip in the 34th minute.

The win­ner came from Nathaniel Gar­cia from the penal­ty spot in the 43rd minute af­ter Mar­tieon Wat­son was brought down in the box by Ak­il Phillip, giv­ing De­porti­vo a 2-1 lead at half­time.

No more goals came in the sec­ond half.

The Portin Fortin team is in fourth place with 17 points from five wins, two draws and two loss­es while Moru­ga FC re­mains in 10th spot, win­less in nine match­es.

The ten clubs are com­pet­ing for a prize of $100,000 for the win­ner, while sec­ond place gets $50,000, and third $25,000.

Re­sults

Sat­ur­day

De­porti­vo PF 2 (Ezekiel Ke­sar 4th, Nathaniel Gar­cia 43rd penal­ty) vs Moru­ga FC 1 (Keion La Rode 34th).

De­fence Force 3 (Jameel Boatswain 8th, 58th, Dar­ius Olivier­ra 76th) vs Re­al West Fort Unit­ed 0.

Fri­day

Cunu­pia 0 vs Cen­tral Soc­cer World 1

La Hor­quet­ta Rangers 2 vs AC Port of Spain 1

Stand­ings

Pos Club P W D L F A GD Pts

1 La-Hor­quet­ta Rangers 9 7 2 0 37 12 25 23

2 De­fence Force 9 7 2 0 30 5 25 23

3 Po­lice FC 8 6 0 2 24 11 13 18

4 De­porti­vo PF 9 5 2 2 16 8 8 17

5 Cunu­pia FC 9 4 1 4 15 14 1 13

6 Cen­tral Soc­cer World 9 3 1 5 9 16 -7 10

7 AC Pos 9 2 3 4 17 20 -3 9

8 Re­al West Fort 9 2 1 6 8 24 -16 7

9 Cen­tral FC 8 1 2 5 11 24 -13 5

10 Moru­ga FC 9 0 0 9 6 39 -33 0