De­spite miss­ing out on se­cur­ing a spot in the CON­CA­CAF Caribbean Cup (two) and CON­CA­CAF Caribbean Club Shield (one) as a top-three team by Sun­day (May 28), Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta Rangers kept its slim chances of lift­ing the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League (TTPFL) alive with a 4-1 whip­ping of Pris­ons Ser­vices FC at the Phase II Recre­ation Ground, La Hor­quet­ta on Sun­day.

Ear­li­er in the day, the top two clubs, AC Port-of-Spain and De­fence Force, who qual­i­fied for the con­fed­er­a­tion’s cup com­pe­ti­tion, both won com­fort­ably, 4-0 against Cunu­pia FC and 3-0 over W Con­nec­tion to open a gap at the top while third-placed Tiger Tanks Club San­do suf­fered a 2-1 loss to Po­lice FC at the Po­lice Bar­racks Train­ing Ground, Long Cir­cu­lar Road, St James to re­main on 41 points, leav­ing the door open for Rangers to climb with­in one point.

The home team was up for the task at La Hor­quet­ta as ear­ly pres­sure on the vis­i­tors forced cap­tain An­tho­ny Par­ris in­to a sixth-minute own-goal.

Cred­it to Pris­ons Ser­vice, they did not buck­le un­der the pres­sure as Rangers had to wait un­til two min­utes be­fore the half-time whis­tle to get its sec­ond item on the night via Daniel David.

Six min­utes in­to the sec­ond half, Jor­dan De­von­ish pulled a goal back for Pris­ons Ser­vice, but his joy was short-lived as three min­utes lat­er, Rangers picked up from where it left off with Ataulla Guer­ra fir­ing in a third item for a 3-1 lead while Tarik Lee round­ed off the scor­ing in the 81st as they im­proved to 40 points from 18 match­es, and four left to play, one point be­hind Club San­do. AC PoS leads with 48 points, two more than De­fence Force, with its fi­nal day Round 22 clash look­ing more than like­ly to be the ti­tle de­cider on June 17.

In Sun­day’s oth­er late match, Point Fortin Civic got a 22nd-minute penal­ty from Mar­cus Joseph to edge past Cen­tral FC 1-0 at Ma­haica Sport­ing Com­plex, Point Fortin, to climb in­to the sev­enth spot with 21 points, two ahead of W Con­nec­tion and four be­hind the sixth-placed Cen­tral FC.

Sun­day’s re­sults

De­fence Force 3 (Brent Sam 47th, Re­on Moore 49th, Justin Sadoo 77th) vs W Con­nec­tion 0

Po­lice FC 2 (Jabari Mitchell pen, Jo­evin Jones) vs Club San­do 1 (Nathaniel James 61st)

AC Port-of-Spain 4 (Sedale Mc Lean 35th, John-Paul Rochford 85th, Robert Primus 87th, Du­ane Muck­ette 90+2) vs Cunu­pia FC 0

La Hor­quet­ta Rangers 4 (An­tho­ny Par­ris 6th o.g, Daniel David 43rd, Ataulla Guer­ra 54th, Tarik Lee 81st) vs Pris­ons Ser­vices 1 (Jor­dan De­von­ish 51st)

Point Fortin Civic 1 (Mar­cus Joseph 22nd pen) vs Cen­tral FC 0

San Juan Jabloteh vs Mor­vant Cale­do­nia AIA - post­poned due to wa­ter­logged field

Up­com­ing match­es

Round 19:

Fri­day, June 2:

De­fence Force vs Po­lice FC, Ari­ma Mu­nic­i­pal Sta­di­um, Ari­ma, 5 pm

Pris­ons Ser­vice vs AC Port-of-Spain, Ari­ma Mu­nic­i­pal Sta­di­um, Ari­ma, 7.15 pm

Sat­ur­day, June 3:

Mor­vant Cale­do­nia AIA vs W Con­nec­tion, Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um, Mal­abar, 4 pm

Cunu­pia FC vs Point Fortin Civic, Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la, 4 pm

Sun­day, June 4:

Club San­do FC vs La Hor­quet­ta Rangers, Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la, 4 pm

Cen­tral FC vs San Juan Jabloteh, Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um, Mal­abar, 4 pm

Lat­est stand­ings

Team P W D L F A Pts

1 AC PoS 18 16 0 2 52 13 48

2 De­fence Force 18 15 1 2 43 11 46

3 Club San­do 18 13 2 3 37 18 41

4 L.H Rangers 18 13 1 4 56 25 40

5 Po­lice 18 10 1 7 37 30 31

6 Cen­tral FC 18 8 1 9 30 34 25

7 Pt Fortin Civic 18 6 3 9 16 20 21

8 W Con­nec­tion 18 5 4 9 17 26 19

9 Mor­vant Cale­do­nia 17 3 2 12 17 43 11

10 Pris­ons Ser­vice 18 3 2 13 11 46 11

11 Jabloteh 17 2 3 12 19 39 9

12 Cunu­pia FC 18 2 2 14 10 40 8