NIGEL SI­MON

Eng­land-born T&T de­fend­er Justin Hoyte played the full 90 min­utes in help­ing Cincin­nati FC record a 2-0 win against Ot­tawa Fury in the Unit­ed Soc­cer Lague (USL) on Sat­ur­day night.

With the win, Cincin­nati main­tained its lead atop the East­ern Con­fer­ence ta­ble with 34 points from 17 match­es, six ahead of Pitts­burg River­hounds who have played two match­es less.

Joint third on the stand­ings with 26 points is Cana­da-born T&T goal­keep­er Greg Ran­jits­ingh and de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons, Louisville FC af­ter a last-gasp 3-3 draw with New York Red Bulls II.

Ran­jits­ingh, the undis­put­ed starter for Louisville was cau­tioned in the en­ter­tain­ing con­test.

A fur­ther point be­hind in the fifth spot is na­tion­al de­fend­er Car­lyle Mitchell and strik­er Nathan Lewis and their In­dy Eleven af­ter a 1-1 draw with Penn.

Mitchell again fea­tured for the full match while Lewis was an un­used sub­sti­tute yet again.

Cordell Cato, with eight goals on the sea­son, was sur­pris­ing­ly left on the bench un­til the 62nd minute as his Char­lotte In­de­pen­dence fell to a 4-1 loss at Beth­le­hem Steel to re­main on 24 points from 17 match­es.

T&T young­ster An­dre For­tune watched on from the bench in his North Car­oli­na 3-1 whip­ping of Rich­mond Kick­ers who in­tro­duced na­tion­al de­fend­er Mekeil Williams in the 56th minute.

To­ba­go-born na­tion­al de­fend­er Ja­mal Jack had an­oth­er sol­id out­ing for Col­orado Springs in a 1-1 draw with San An­to­nio while Shan­non Gomez picked up a 31st-minute.