KINGSTON, Ja­maica – The Reg­gae Girlz reg­is­tered their sec­ond win in as many match­es against South Africa when they de­feat­ed them 3-2 in the last in­ter­na­tion­al friend­ly at the Mon­tego Bay Sports Com­plex on Mon­day.

Af­ter com­fort­ably win­ning the open­ing match 3-0 last Fri­day, Ja­maica found them­selves be­hind ear­ly on when Lin­da Motl­ha­lo gave the vis­i­tors the lead in the 20th minute when she slot­ted past goal­keep­er Liya Brooks from close range.

How­ev­er, the home side got on lev­el terms in the sec­ond half thanks to Vyan Samp­son, who found the back of the net from a re­bound in the 59th minute af­ter Khadi­ja Shaw’s ini­tial head­er had been saved.

Drew Spence then put the Reg­gae Girlz in the lead five min­utes lat­er, head­ing the ball pow­er­ful­ly past South Africa’s goal­keep­er Kaylin Swart.

Swart pulled off a stun­ning save mo­ments lat­er when she got a glove to a pow­er­ful left foot­ed shot from Shaw.

Kay­la McKen­na, who re­placed Shaw, ex­tend­ed Ja­maica’s lead to 3-1, fin­ish­ing from close range af­ter beat­ing the South African de­fence.

South Africa man­aged to pull back a goal in ex­tra time when Brooks fum­bled an easy catch and Nicole Michael took full ad­van­tage to poke it across the goal line, but the Reg­gae Girlz held on for the win.

CMC