Week 7 - Vincy Feel The Heat while St. Kitts & Nevis Roll

Team St. Kitts and Nevis continued their outstanding play this New York Caribbean Cup Soccer Tournament defeating Team Guyana in a thriller, while Team St. Vincent and the Grenadines had their hides tanned by Team St. Lucia.


Team St. Kitts & Nevis 2 vs Team Guyana 0

Darien Huggins (St Kitts & Nevis)

The 2015 New York Caribbean Cup season has not been kind to Team Guyana and this afternoon was no different. Goals on either side of the half by Team St. Kitts & Nevis proved their undoing this afternoon.

Play was pretty even for the first twenty minutes or so with both sides attacking and counter attacking. However, the New York Golden Jaguars seemed to be more organized around midfield as they apparently tried to control the game tempo.

Players fight for ball

Things suddenly changed in the 23rd minute when Alister Warner broke in on goalkeeper Dominic Saul and was brought down in the 18 yard box. The referee immediately pointed to the spot and Orlando Mitchum stepped up and buried the penalty.

Following the goal Team Guyana had several opportunities to equalize but faulty passing, shooting and a hesitancy to shoot denied them of bringing things even. There was no further scoring as the teams went to the break with Sugar Boys holding on to a 1-0 advantage.

Kris Camacho (Guyana) cutting pass off

The New York Golden Jaguars opened the second half like a house on fire, however, in the 49th minute the Sugar Boys doubled the score on a decisive counter attack. The Guyanese were in charge when a long ball through the heart of their defense caught them out of position and allowed Jolson Whatley to race through the middle for goal number two.

Team Guyana remains goalless after three games and this afternoon they were guilty of making the unnecessary extra pass in front of goal. It was almost as if they were afraid to shoot the ball. If they hope to make the 2015 playoff round it will have to done in their next two games.


St. Lucia 8 vs St. Vincent & the Grenadines 0

Substitute Michael Simmons (St Vincent & the Grendaines) saves shot

I can’t recall in recent memory a Vincentian team beaten so badly in the New York Caribbean Cup Soccer Tournament. However, the final score was not unexpected. When you turn up for a game with less than your full complement of players, and not your best players to boot, you usually don’t win ball games.

Team St. Vincent & the Grenadines showed up for their Western Zone clash against Team St. Lucia with only eight players this afternoon as some of their players reportedly were playing in competition elsewhere. And as it turned out you can’t have your cake and eat it, as reportedly they also lost the other game.

Carlton Daniel (St Lucia) heads the ball

Impatience denied the Lucians from scoring for much of the half. In fact were not able to tickle the net until the 39th minute when Carlton Daniel made Vincy pay for a defensive error.

This was being billed as the game of the afternoon, and may very well have been had Vincy showed up with a full team. Credit their players however for holding Team St. Lucia to one goal before the whistle for the break.

It would have taken a yeoman’s effort to continue to hold off the Lucians in the second half particularly when Vincy was beginning to show signs of tiredness. Just after resumption Kersan Marcellin latched on to a cross from John Perry Joseph to give team St. Lucia a two goal advantage. In the 48th minute it was Marcellin again, this time racing through the middle and slotting home pass stand-in goalkeeper Michael Simmons.

Garfield Cupid (St. Vincent & the Grenadines) covers John Perry Joseph (St Lucia)

At this point Vincy Heat made some defensive adjustments that held the tide for awhile, but in the 67th minute John Perry Joseph made it 4-0 on a header inside the six yard box and then the flood gates opened.

Bradley Nestor got the first of two goals, Daran Fedee got one and John Perry Joseph got his second for the final score, Team St. Lucia 8 Team St. Vincent & the Grenadines 0.

Certainly a disappointing display by Team St. Vincent & the Grenadines one of the corner stones of the New York Caribbean Cup Soccer Tournament over the years, last year’s beaten finalist and except for Team Jamaica have won the tournament more times than any other team. More than that, a slap in the face of their fans who show up to watch them play.


Week 8 Games, Sunday, July 12, 2015

3:30pm – Team Antigua & Barbuda vs Team Dominica
5:30pm – Team Jamaica vs Team Panama