William Dawson Peace Cup Continues in Sandhill Village
Good evening and welcome to this week’s edition of Sports Monday. I am Paul Lopez, here with your sports review for tonight. Let’s begin tonight at the Sandhill Football Field for week two of the William Dawson Peace Cup. In our highlight match, Jane Usher Football Club went up against Caesar Ridge Football Club.
Nineteen minutes into this one, Ceasar Ridge in possession of the ball. It is passed off and second touch to Leslie, sprinting towards goal. Leslie had a defender and the goalkeeper on him, and he kicked the ball between both of their feet and into an exposed goal. In under a minute, Jane Usher FC sent the ball downfield. Number fourteen for Ceasar Ridge stepped up to defend against Delory Andrews, but Andrews shook him off and found a narrow opening to the goal and tied the match. That’s the first half. In the second half of the match, at the fifty-fifth minute, Caesar Ridge with a corner kick, the ball eventually cleared out. Cesar Ridge regained possession, and the ball is sent flying toward the goal. The goalkeeper got a hold but fumbled the ball and Herson Benites took advantage. Caeser Ridge FC went up two goals to one. And that is how this one ended, in favor of CRFC.
The Belize Premier Basketball League is now in week six of its inaugural season. Each day of this weekend saw matches played in different parts of the country. On Friday night, the Capital City Kings hosted the EZ Investment Dream Ballers for a showdown that saw the Dream Ballers rise to the occasion. Kings fell, despite a forty-point performance by Nisani Mendez, while Deshawn Brackett led the EZ Investment Dream Ballers with twenty points. Another big night for Brackett, who is now the first player in this new league to score a total of one hundred points across all games played to date. In San Ignacio, the San Pedro Tiger Shark won yet another road game, this time against the Cayo Western Ballaz. That game ended eighty to seventy-five. The Sharks are now five and zero this season, the only undefeated team in the league, so far. And then on Sunday afternoon, EZ Investment Dream Ballers hosted the Punta Gorda Panthers in a battle of the southern teams. Dream Ballers edged out the Panthers, sixty-nine to sixty-two. The Belize City Thunderbolts will host the Belmopan Capital City Kings on Friday Night in Belize City.Now back to some more football action with the Anthony Mahler Youth Football Tournament.
We have highlights from two matches played on Saturday at Berger Field. In the first game, Royal Fusion and K.P. Strikers female teams went head-to-head in two fifteen-minute halves. And it didn’t take long before Alvian Strikers scored their first goal. That one came from Priya Bladen. She found her way through the clutter in front of the goal and placed it in with a soft ground touch in an open area. That is one for Alvian Strikers and the only goal scored in the entire match. So, the Strikers took that one.The male under-ten match played out differently. In this one, Belize United took on Ebony Lake. And boy did Ebony Lake give a formidable Belize United team a run for their money.
Five minutes into this one a goal kick for Ebony Lake went across the field and Jerrod Tillet in front of the goal. He did not hesitate to fire towards the goal, outplaced the goalkeeper and sent the ball into net. That’s one for Ebony Lake. Two minutes into the second half, Ebony Lake’s goalkeeper Shafique Martin with another goal kick that flies across the field. But this time it bounced inside the penalty box and over the goalkeeper’s head into the goal. That’s two goals for Ebony Lake, as Belize United desperately searched for something. But, their answer came two minutes later from Azair Gaynair. Off the Belize United corner kick, Gaynair was directly in front of goal to put the ball in. He was able to cut their opponent’s lead to one. But that is as far as they went. Ebony Lake came out on top, two goals to one.
Well folks, that is as we have for you in tonight’s coverage of Sports Monday. We do hope that all the fathers out there had a blessed and enjoyable Father’s Day weekend. Catch you in the next one.
