CAYON ROCKETS, SADDLERS WIN PREMIER LEAGUE THRILLERS

Published 13 February 2023

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Buckie Got It, St Kitts Nevis News Source

CAYON ROCKETS, SADDLERS WIN PREMIER LEAGUE THRILLERS
It promised to be the most exciting match of the opening weekend of the SKNFA Premier
League, and it lived up to expectation. Flow 4G Cayon Rockets delivered a masterclass against
Rams Village Superstars, brushing them aside 4-1 at the Warner Park on Sunday afternoon.

Scoring for Cayon 
Shaqkeem Butler 17th min 
Mervin Lewis 40th min
Carlos Bertie 52nd min 
Joshua Bradshaw 83rd min 

Scoring for Village 
Tahir Hanley 45th min 

Village fought valiantly, despite going down to 10 men in the first half when Raheem Francis
was sent off with a straight red card in the 38 th minute for denying an obvious goal scoring
opportunity. Cayon’s assistant coach Valentine Anthony praised his players for a comprehensive
performance in their first match of the season. “We trained hard. Believe me, we trained hard.
The players did what they were supposed to do. We wanted more goals, but, unfortunately,
fitness played a role in that. So hopefully, going on into this season, the players get fit and we
just dominate the league,” Anthony said.

Coach of Village Superstars Stephen Clarke, said his players made some errors that cost them the
match. “Too much individual errors. Every goal that scored came from an error from ourselves
defensively, individually, so that’s something we definitely have to tighten up on,” Clarke said.

SADDLERS OVERCOMES SECURITY FORCES

In Sunday’s earlier match, Fast Cash Saddlers United came from 2-0 down in the first half to
defeat Elco Ltd Security Forces FC 3-2.
Scoring for Security Forces 
O’marri Piggott 10th min 
Donyelle Francis 26th min 

Scoring for Saddlers 
Evansroy Barnes struck twice 39th &(pk) 57th min
Trevor Hanley 65th min 

Saddlers’ Coach Samuel Phipps described the tale of two halves for his team. “What went wrong
is there were some defensive errors. I thought that the guys didn’t do what we did on the training
pitch, but nonetheless we’re going back to the drawing board and work on it again,” Phipps said.
For the second half, he credited some changes he made at halftime. “One of the center backs, I
put them out on the left and I brought back one of the players who was playing in the midfield to
play center back… to stabilize the defense and it worked,” he added.

Coach St. Clair Morris of Security Forces, said his team lost focus, but said some of the blame
was down to officiating. “Our players weren’t disciplined enough. We missed the shape of our
organisation,” he said. “Couple of the goals that scored on us…were (due to) a bad decision by
the referee.”