MI­A­MI, Flori­da – Kei­throy Free­man net­ted a dou­ble as un­beat­en St Kitts and Nevis took a gi­ant stride to­wards the next round of CON­CA­CAF 2022 World Cup Qual­i­fy­ing with a 3-0 thrash­ing of Guyana on Fri­day.

Play­ing at Warn­er Park in Bas­seterre, the home side won their third game in as many out­ings cour­tesy of the 27-year-old Free­man’s strikes in the first half, with Ro­maine Sawyers grab­bing the third in the sec­ond half.

The vic­to­ry took St Kitts top of Group F with nine points, five clear of the sec­ond placed Puer­to Ri­co who won their first ear­li­er in the week.

Free­man put the hosts ahead as ear­ly as the ninth minute from the spot and dou­bled his tal­ly on 36 min­utes from close range.

Sawyers, who fea­tures for West Bromwich Al­bion – rel­e­gat­ed from the Eng­lish Pre­mier League last month – then found St Kitts’ third af­ter be­ing set up by Unit­ed King­dom-based Omari Ster­ling-James.

In Group A, An­tigua and Bar­bu­da won their sec­ond when they edged Grena­da 1-0 at the Vi­vian Richards Crick­et Sta­di­um at home in St John’s, to re­main un­beat­en.

The lone goal came in the 20th minute through Rhys Browne, who plays in Eng­land’s Na­tion­al League club for Sut­ton Unit­ed – the 25-year-old fin­ish­ing neat­ly at the far post.

An­tigua top the group on sev­en points, two clear of Montser­rat.

In Guatemala City, St Vin­cent and the Grenadines were on the re­ceiv­ing end of a 10-0 maul­ing at the hands of the hosts, to plunge to their sec­ond de­feat in Group C.

Ten dif­fer­ent scor­ers man­aged to find the back of the nets, in­clud­ing four off the bench, as the Cen­tral Amer­i­can gi­ants won their third straight to con­tin­ue top of the group.

Guatemala are top fol­low­ing their third straight win while SVG are bot­tom of the pile af­ter tast­ing their sec­ond de­feat.

Bermu­da al­so suf­fered a stern drub­bing in Para­mari­bo, slump­ing to a 6-0 de­feat to Suri­name, with Is­rael-based for­ward Nigel Has­sel­baink bury­ing a hat-trick and Sher­al­do Beck­er, who plays for Union Berlin in the Ger­man Bun­desli­ga, chip­ping in with a dou­ble.

While the de­feat was Bermu­da’s sec­ond, leav­ing them third in Group B, the vic­to­ry was Suri­name’s third, keep­ing them top on nine points.

Bar­ba­dos, mean­while, suf­fered heart­break in San­to Domin­go, con­ced­ing a in­jury-time goal to set­tle for a share of the points in a 1-1 draw at the Es­ta­dio Olímpi­co Félix Sánchez.

Play­ing in Group D, Bar­ba­dos seemed head­ed for a sur­prise 1-0 win cour­tesy of 19-year-old Niall Reid-Stephen’s 42nd minute strike.

But Spain-based Man­ny Ro­driguez pounced in the third minute of stop­page time at the end to res­cue the hosts and keep them top on sev­en points with their sec­ond win.

Bar­ba­dos lie third on four points.

In the Group E game in Man­agua, Nicaragua de­feat­ed Be­lize 3-0.

RE­SULTS CON­CA­CAF

Group A

At Vi­vian Richards Crick­et Sta­di­um (ST JOHN’S):

An­tigua & Bar­bu­da beat Grena­da 1-0

Group B

At Franklin Essed Sta­di­um (PARA­MARI­BO):

Suri­name beat Bermu­da 6-0

Group C

At Es­ta­dio Doro­teo Gua­much Flo­res (GUATEMALA-CITY):

Guatemala beat St Vin­cent & the Grenadines 10-0

Group D

At Es­ta­dio Olímpi­co Félix Sánchez (SAN­TO DOMIN­GO):

Do­mini­can Re­pub­lic drew with Bar­ba­dos 1-1

Group E

At Es­ta­dio Na­cional (MAN­AGUA):

Nicaragua beat Be­lize 3-0

Group F

At Warn­er Park (BAS­SETERRE):

St Kitts and Nevis beat Guyana 3-0

(CMC)