Published 17 February 2023 Basseterre St Kitts and Nevis News Source
SATURDAY’S PREMIER LEAGUE PREVIEW: FOOTBALL COMES HOME TO NEWTOWN
The SKNFA Premier League rolls into East Basseterre, in a community that has enjoyed much success top flight football in St. Kits and Nevis. This Saturday at 6pm, hosts S-Krave Newtown United hosts newly promoted Jones Group Sandy Point FC. Sandy Point. Newtown are at the top of the table after a resounding 5-1 opening weekend win over Bath United. They are coached by Anthony Nets Isaac, who had previous successful stints with the club before moving to St. Peters FC for the past two season. Now he is back home and is looking forward to leading the new look Newtown United to former glory.
FRIDAY’S PREVIEW: SADDLERS HIGH ON CONFIDENCE, CAYON HOSTS BATH
We are now in the second match week of the 2023 SKNFA Premier League. Let’s preview Friday’s matches which will be played at the St. Mary’s Park in Cayon. The first match of the double header is between Fast Cash Saddlers United and Rams Village Superstars. Saddlers is coming off a come from behind 3-2 win over Security Forces in their Premier League opener on Sunday. The manner in which they scored that victory has sparked life in their premier league campaign under new coach Samuel Phipps. After Sunday’s match, he spoke about how they intend to build on this victory. “I have to work on the defense. There are a lot of key players who are not here…and we have some reshuffling to do. We will have to go back to the pitch, to the drawing board and make things right,” Phipps said after Sunday’s match.
Department of Sports and Giant Malt team up for athletics Combined Zonal Championship
Basseterre, St. Kitts. February 15, 2023- Giant Malt and the Department of Sports have entered into a partnership to produce a mega athletics championship, branded the Giant Malt Combined Zonal Championship. The production is scheduled for February 18, at the Kim Collins Stadium.
CONAREE STOPS ST. PETERS, OLD ROAD AND ST. PAULS DRAW BLANKS
SOL IAS Conaree FC started off their 2023 SKNFA Premier League campaign on the right note, with a 2-0 victory over St. Peters FC at the Verchilds playing field on Saturday evening.
Scoring for Conaree Byron Phillip 36th min Anthony Grant 87th min
Coach Al Richards said after the match, he was pleased with the win, despite his team not performing to its best. “Congrats to my team for winning a 2-nil victory. My thoughts on the game are simple; the first game of the season, we didn’t really get it right, but we got the victory,” Richards said.
Coach Austin Dico Huggins of St. Peters, who coached his first premier league match for his new team, said his team created chances, but were poor at finishing. “I think we need to be more lethal in the attacking third of the field and we need to concentrate more on the job, especially on the game plan that is laid out,” Huggins said. “That’s all we need to work on and get more involved mentally; because it is important that we remember everything that we need to do, in which area of the field that we need to do it and we need to play harder, more intense; a lot more running off the ball, so therefore we need to get fitter,” he said.
In the following match, defending champions S.L. Horfords St. Paul’s United were held by home side MFCR Old Road United Jets 0-0. Both teams created few chances but defended resolutely ending in a goalless draw.
Caption: Action between Conaree and St. Peters on Saturday in Verchilds.
S-Krave Newtown United and Hobson Enterprises Garden Hotspurs both recorded the first wins of the 2023 SKNFA Premier League with matches played in Sandy Point on Friday Feb 10. Newtown brushed aside Hotsprings Bath United 5-1.
