An­to­nio Quashie and for­mer na­tion­al stand­out Nicholas Wren both had dou­ble strikes in lead­ing Men’s Vet­er­ans cham­pi­ons Po­lice to a com­fort­able 7-3 vic­to­ry over Fa­ti­ma in the Ven­tures Hock­ey Club’s 18th In­ter­na­tion­al In­vi­ta­tion­al In­door Hock­ey Tour­na­ment on Sat­ur­day morn­ing at the Wood­brook Youth Fa­cil­i­ty.

The law­men had on­ly the day be­fore, clob­bered Shape 7-2 but still faced a lengthy process in get­ting to the semi­fi­nal which be­gins to­day from 9 am.

The top two teams will ad­vance to the round of four.

Yes­ter­day though, it was an­oth­er com­mand­ing per­for­mance from a team bid­ding to re­tain the ti­tle they won last year, how­ev­er, they were made to come from be­hind.

Fa­ti­ma’s Col­in Young, the scor­er of a hat-trick for his team, was the one to open the scor­ing af­ter just six min­utes. Lat­er he com­plet­ed his scor­ing with goals in the 18th and 22nd min­utes, but it proved in­suf­fi­cient as Po­lice were ruth­less on the day.

Quashie scored his first goal in the tenth minute and he com­plet­ed his brace in the 27th.

Wren, a for­mer goal-scor­ing ma­chine for the twin-is­land Re­pub­lic got his goals in the 22nd and 30th, while At­i­ba Whit­ting­ton (24th), Dwain Quan Chan (17th), and Neil Lash­ley (26th) round­ed off the win for the law­men.

Mean­while, in the Women’s di­vi­sion, the Po­lice­women could not fol­low in the foot­steps of their men’s coun­ter­parts, go­ing down to a heavy 0-11 loss to Paragon. Alana Lewis (5th, 14th), Keima Gar­diner (7th, 19th), Fe­li­cia King-Ash­by (10th, 11th), Zene Hen­ry (22nd, 31st), and Moni­ka Lewis-Weekes (25th, 27th) all scored twice for their team while Gabrielle Thomp­son com­plet­ed the rout in the 32nd minute.

Lat­er Fa­ti­ma was al­so at the end of an 8-0 drub­bing in the Men’s B di­vi­sion by Queen’s Park.

The win came cour­tesy of a hat-trick by Do­minic Young in the 18th, 19th and 28th min­utes and dou­ble strikes from Shawn Lee Quay in the 1st and 32nd min­utes.

Iron­i­cal­ly, the host went down to Mag­no­lia 1-3 in the women’s di­vi­sion cour­tesy of Saman­tha Olton’s brace in the 1st and 4th min­utes, and Elise Olton’s 24th-minute item. The Ven­tures’ lone goal came from Anya Sealy in the 7th minute.