NEWTOWN PIPS ST. PAUL’S IN SUNDAY THRILLER, ST. PETERS EARN FIRST
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Yohannes Mitcham scored a last-gasp goal to give Honda Newtown United a 3-2 victory over S L Horsfords St. Paul’s United Sunday in the SKNFA Premier League at Warner Park. The match was highly anticipated as a clash of the titans and was extended for 22 minutes due to medics tending to a St. Paul’s player who picked up an injury in the second half. That was enough time for a sensational finish.
Tijuanique Morton breaks national junior record at the recently held National Junior College Athletic Association National Indoor Championships held 3rd and 4th March in Topeka, Kansas. Morton copped the third place 24.04 seconds in the Women 200 meters final. Morton, who is a student at New Mexico Junior College also broke the national junior record in the 60 meters having run 7.51 seconds in the preliminaries round.
Team St. Kitts and Nevis captured podium spots at the just concluded Eastern Caribbean Volleyball Association (ECVA) Beach Volleyball Championships first leg in St. Lucia.
MRFC Old Road United Jets and SOL IAS Conaree FC, laid down markers to the rest of the SKNFA Premier League, with resounding victories on Sunday at the Warner Park. First it was Conaree FC, dismissing Elco Ltd Security Forces 3-0 in the early kick off at 2pm. Scoring for Conaree Quanieki Clarke 3rd min Nicquan Phipps 53rd min Ilivity Pemberton 76th min In the day’s other match, Tiquanny Williams signaled his intent to become the league’s top scorer for a second straight season, scoring a hattrick and leading Old Road to a 4-0 victory of St. Peters.
Scoring for Old Road Tiquanny Williams hat trick 2nd, 24th, & (pk) 29th min Niquan Browne (pk) 65th min
Coach Alexis Morris of Old Road, said the manner of his team’s victory is a message sent to the rest of the league, that Old Road is a team to be reckoned with. “It’s a step in the right direction and I must say, definitely it’s a statement for the other teams that O R, as I said before, is a team to be reckoned with,” he said, adding that they have been practicing since December and are looking forward to a great season.
For Coach Austin “Dico” Huggins of the reason for his team’s poor performance, especially in the first half, was due to a makeshift defensive unit he had to deploy because of injuries to some key players. “I think we were too relaxed. We had to play with a makeshift defense. Today was the first time that some of those guys played because we are now faced with a lot of injuries,” Huggins said. “We had to make the changes (Sunday) because from (Saturday’s) practice, we learned that some players would not be in because of injury…I think they did creditably well in the second half,” the coach added.
Tiquanny Williams (right) celebrates after scoring one of his three goals on Sunday against St. Peters FC.
Newtown, St. Paul’s Register Wins In East Basseterre Encounters Football came to Newtown on Saturday with two exciting matches; the home side Honda Newtown United hosting Jones Group Sandy Point FC. Newtown came out the victors 2-1 in a very tense affair that saw both teams seeing players sent off in the first half with straight red cards.
Red Cards Jahlyan Burt (Sandy Point) 23rd min Leranje Liburd (Newtown) 23rd min (Both for violent conduct) Scoring for Newtown Utd Kennedy Rodriquez (pk) 11th min Yohannes Mitcham 45th min
Scoring for Sandy Point Anthony Alves 63rd min Coach Anthony “Nets” Isaac of Newtown, was pleased with outcome of the match. “We see the stuff (we practice) coming out in the game. It’s not a hundred percent, but we are getting there,” Isaac said.
Assistant Manager of the Sandy Point FC, Shane Jeffers, said his team competed well, but were just unable to get the equalizing goal. “We basically gave ourselves a chance in the second half. We had to make some changes—two red cards in the first half on either team. A few adjustments from the coach in the second half and we bore fruit to that,” Jeffers said. In the second match of the Saturday’s double header, defending champions S. L. Horfords St. Paul’s United finally got a win, after drawing 0-0 last week with Old Road. They brushed aside Hobson Enterprises Garden Hotspurs 3-1.
Scoring for St. Paul’s Ordell Flemming 10th min Keithroy Freeman 19th min
Malik Clarke 68th min Scoring for Spurs Jabez Dorsett 83rd min
Red cards Jamal Jeffers (St. Paul’s) 53rd min (Denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity) Manager of St. Paul’s Austin Lewis said the team needed to make some adjustments after last week’s draw and was pleased with the performance Saturday night. Spurs Assistant Coach Rohan Browne, said preparation for the match was affected, especially with an unfortunate incident in their community this past week. The SKNFA Premier League continues this Friday with matches at the Newtown Playing field.
Newtown United off to a great start in the 2023 season. (File Photo)
