Kiron Man­swell net­ted a hand­ful of goals to lead Pe­tit Val­ley/Diego Mar­tin Unit­ed to an em­phat­ic 11-1 thump­ing of St James Spar­tans in their open­ing North West Dis­trict en­counter in the RBC West Penn Is­land-wide Com­mu­ni­ty Youth Un­der-20 Foot­ball Tour­na­ment host­ed by the West Penn Cen­ter for Sports & Cul­ture (West Penn) at St An­tho­ny's Col­lege Ground, West­moor­ings on Sun­day (June 2).

For Pe­tit Val­ley/Diego Mar­tin, Jarvis Maa­lik added a hat-trick while Micha'el John got a dou­ble, and Joshua No­ray the oth­er in the lop­sided con­test.

In the open­ing match of a triple-head­er at West­moor­ings, San Juan Jabloteh got a hat-trick from na­tion­al U-20 winger An­dell Fras­er in the sixth, 32nd, and 54th min­utes while Is­rael Radel­lant scored twice (35th, 36th), and Keanu John (10th), and Roshaun Doobay (60th) one each in their 7-0 blow-out of Diego Mar­tin FC.

In the oth­er match, Mal­ick Blue Li­ons over­came an ear­ly set­back to edge Mis­cel­la­neous Laven­tille Utd 3-2 with Tyrese Man­swell (25th), An­to­nio Sealey (28th) and Jaqun Phillip (44th) on tar­get for the win­ners to can­cel out a dou­ble for Mis­cel­la­neous Laven­tille Unit­ed from Ker­sheem Alexan­der in the fourth, and 41st min­utes.

In an­oth­er one-sided con­test, Ma­coya Gin­ga won 8-1 over Ari­ma Creek in the Far East Dis­trict; Evo­lu­tion FC pound­ed Harlem Strik­ers 9-1 in the Cen­tral Dis­trict; City FC spanked Broad­way At­tack­ers 5-2 and Ste Madeleine Strik­ers pun­ished Kamil­lionare FC both in the South Cen­tral Dis­trict, and in the South West, Guapo Up­ris­ing Youths trounced Erin Bor­der Play­ers 6-0.

This year's tour­na­ment fea­tures 48 teams, an in­crease of 16 from last year com­pet­ing across eight des­ig­nat­ed com­mu­ni­ties for $32,000 in prize mon­ey in ad­di­tion to medals and tro­phies with the par­tic­i­pat­ing teams be­ing al­lowed five U-23 play­ers on their ros­ter, but on­ly three fea­tur­ing on the field at any giv­en time.

The win­ners of this year’s com­pe­ti­tion will col­lect $15,000 while the sec­ond-placed team gets $10,000 and the third and fourth, $5,000 and $3,000 re­spec­tive­ly with the fifth to eighth-placed teams each re­ceiv­ing $1,000 each.

Mal­abar Se­mi-Pro Blasters are the two-time reign­ing cham­pi­ons af­ter re­tain­ing their ti­tle in a pul­sat­ing fi­nal, 4-3 in ex­tra-time over for­mer win­ners Pe­tit Val­ley/Diego Mar­tin af­ter a 3-3 reg­u­la­tion-time draw at the Diego Mar­tin Sport­ing Com­plex, last Ju­ly led by a dou­ble from Is­rael Joseph.

In the third-place bat­tle, Maguaya Unit­ed edged FC Gin­ga 1-0 while in the semi­fi­nals both Se­mi-Pro Blasters and Pe­tit Val­ley/Diego Mar­tin won their match­es at the same venue by sim­i­lar 5-1 mar­gins over FC Gin­ga, and Maguaya Unit­ed FA, re­spec­tive­ly.

RBC West Penn Com­mu­ni­ty Youth League re­sults

Round One:

South West:

Guapo Up­ris­ing Youths 6 (Daniel Jones 7th, 19th, Daryl Gar­cia 33rd, Jabari Wells 61st, J'kwan Bai­ley 63rd, Zion Lam­my 65th) vs Erin Bor­der Play­ers 0

Point Ligoure Nko­mo 3 (Gesi­ah Bish­op 20th, Akiel Vesprey 21st, Jah­mali Cob­ham 70th) vs De­porti­vo 1 (Malachi Crichlow 38th)

Far East:

Ma­coya Gin­ga 8 (Re­shaun Gul­ston 69th, 77th, 87th, Nyrek Thon­rhill 9th, 31st, Ter­ron Miller 14th, Malachi Hazel 55th, Alexan­der As­canio 90+1) vs Ari­ma Creek 0

Trinci­ty Na­tion­als 0 vs Tacarigua AIA 0

North West:

San Juan Jabloteh 7 (An­dell Fras­er 6th, 32nd, 54th, Is­rael Radel­lant 35th, 36th, Keanu John 10th, Roshaun Doobay 60th) vs Diego Mar­tin FC 0

Pe­tit Val­ley/Diego Mar­tin 11 (Kiron Man­swell 5, Jarvis Maa­lik 3, Micha'el John 2, Joshua No­ray) vs St James Spar­tans 1

Mal­ick Blue Li­ons 3 (Tyrese Man­swell 25th, An­to­nio Sealey 28th, Jaqun Phillip 44th) vs Mis­cel­la­neous Laven­tille Utd 2 (Kerse­heem Alexan­der 4th, 41st)

South East:

Mas­call Foot­ball Acad­e­my 2 (L:e Bron Williams, Tyrique Lu­cas) vs M12 Foot­ball Rev­o­lu­tion 2 (Ne­gaste Moore, Mikael Ash)

Cen­tral:

Tal­ent and En­er­gy 2 vs Gas­par­il­lo Youths 0

Evo­lu­tion FC 9 vs Harlem Strik­ers 1

South Cen­tral:

City FC 5 vs Broad­way At­tack­ers 2

Ste Madeleine Strik­ers 7 vs Kamil­lionare FC 2

North East:

North Coast 0 vs East­ern Coun­ty 0

Tin­to Acad­e­my 2 vs San­gre Grande Dream Team 0

Va­len­cia Li­ons 2 vs East Side Strik­ers 0

Near East:

San­ta Cruz FA 1 (Nee­gus Jack 28th) vs Ul­ti­mate Uni­son 1 (Jalen John 75th)

Prison Fc 3 (Isa­iah Ray­mond 15th, Aaron Kong 46+3, Daniel Lewis 90+1) vs gate­way Ath­let­ics 2 (Daniel Rose 2nd, 23rd)

Up­com­ing match­es:

Sat­ur­day, Juen 8:

South West:

Venue: Ma­haica Sport­ing Com­plex, Point Fortin

Guapo Up­ris­ing Youths vs La Brea RFC, 5 pm

Point Ligoure Nko­mo vs Point Fortin Youth Acad­e­my, 7 pm

Far East:

Venue: Ed­die Hart Rec. Grd, Tu­na­puna

Trinci­ty Na­tion­als vs Tu­na­puna HVC, 3 pm

South East:

Venue: New­lands Rec. Grd

Mas­call FA vs Maguaya Unit­ed, 3 pm

Table­land Soc­cer­A­cad­e­my vs m12 Foot­ball Rev­o­lu­tion, 5 pm

New­lands War­riors FC vs Biche Unit­ed 7 pm

Sun­day, June 9:

North West:

Venue: Mu­cu­rapo West Sec. Grd, Mu­cu­rapo Road

Pe­tit Val­ley/Diego Mar­tin vs Mis­cel­la­neous Laven­tille Utd, 12 noon\

Diego FC vs Mal­ick Blue Li­ons, 2 pm

St James Spar­tans vs San Juan Jabloteh, 4 pm

North East:

Venue: Ato Boldon Rec, Grd.

Crown Trace FC vs Prison FC, 2 pm

Mae­stro's FC vs San­ta Cruz F.A. 4 pm

Ul­ti­matye Uni­son vs St Au­gus­tine G.A, 6 pm

Far East:

Venue: Ed­die Hart Rec. Grd, Tu­na­puna

Ari­ma Creek vs Mal­abar Se­mi Pro Blasters, 2 pm

Tacarigua AIA vs Ma­coya Gin­ga, 4pm

North East:

Venue: Matu­ra Rec. Grd

East Side Strik­ers vs North Coast F.A, 3 pm

Eatern Coun­ty Utd vs Tin­to Acad­e­my, 5 pm

Va­lenc­cia Li­ons vs San­gre Grande Dream Team, 7 pm

Cen­tral:

Venue: Ed­in­burgh 500 Rec, Grd

Latchoo Trace vs Re­al Cen­tral, 3 pm

Evo­lu­tion FC vs Tal­ent & En­er­gy, 5 pm

South Cen­tral:

Venue: To be de­ter­mined

Pe­nal Is Love Move­ment vs Braod­way At­tack­ers, 3 pm

South West:

Venue: Ma­haica Sport­ing Com­plex, Point Fortin

De­porti­vo vs Erin Bor­der Play­ers, 3 pm