Akim Toussaint and Nicholas Grant both scored beaver-tricks to lead T&T Police Service to an emphatic 14-1 thumping of Carib for the largest win of the season in the men’s Open Division of the T&T Hockey Board (TTHB) Outdoor 30-minute Seven-A-Side League on Friday night.
Playing the second match of a double-header at the National Hockey Centre, Orange Grove Road, Tacarigua, former national hockey captain Toussaint scored in the tenth, 17th, 22nd, and 26th minutes, while Grant, a current national player, got his field goals in the 13th, 20th, 25th, and 28th minutes.
The trio of Jordan Reynos (second, 11th), Camron Adamson (fourth, 27th) and Dwain Quan Chan (23rd, 29th) chipped in with two goals each, while Ronald Ramsammy scored a last-gasp consolation for Carib.
With the win, the rampant lawmen improved to 24 points from ten matches, one point behind Queen’s Park Cricket Club, who have a match in hand, while Paragon is third with 21 points from ten matches as well, one point more than T&T Defence Force.
In Friday’s opening match, T&T Defence Force got a goal each from Dylan Francis (third), Sheldon De Lisle (12th) and Tarell Singh (19th) to blank Notre Dame 3-0.
Last weekend, Adam Perriera scored a goal in each half to lead Queen’s Park Cricket Club (QPCC) I to a 4-0 blanking of Carib. Perriera scored in the ninth and 21st minutes, while Ethan Reynos scored in the 11th and Darren Cowie also scored in the 11th and 23rd minutes, respectively, for the Parkites.
In the second match, the T&T Police Service and the T&T Defence Force shared the spots in an entertaining 3-3 draw in the ‘Battle of the Services’.
For the lawmen, Jordan Reynos scored as early as the first minute and added a second item in the 23rd, with Toussaint also getting on the scoresheet in the 12th, while Defence Force got a goal each from Tarell Singh in the fourth minute, Shaquille Daniel in the ninth, and Mickel Pierre in the 19th.
Last Sunday, Malvern got a hat-trick from Rene Mohammed in the fifth, 17th, and 28th, with Jeshajah Drayton (16th) and Jovan Wren (22nd) adding one each in a 5-1 whipping of Notre Dame, who got a 20th-minute penalty conversion from Nicholas Whiteman.
In the day’s other men’s match-up, Pargon battled past QPCC II, 3-2, with Joel Daniel scoring twice, in the 11th and 29th minutes, and Kiel Murray, the other, in the 12th minute to cancel out efforts from Aidan Elias in the fourth minute to break the scoreless encounter and Alexander Rowe, in the 16th.
In the women’s Open division, Notre Dame was awarded a 3-0 win by default over second-placed Magnolias I, while Harvard Checkers used a double from Patrice Padmore and one from Janaia Thomas to beat Magnolias II, 3-1, with Kimberley Wellington getting the lone reply for the losers.
In the Trinity men’s competition, leaders QPCC shut out Paragon 3-0 in their top-of-the-table meeting to move to 15 points from six matches, three more than their opponents.
