Ma Pau Stars trounce Club Sando

Ma Pau Stars and Club Sando combined for eight goals as the Stars prevailed 5-3, while San Juan Jabloteh hammered the cellar- placed Point Fortin Civic 5-1.

There was also a meeting at the Morvant Recreation Ground with hosts Morvant Caledonia United holding Defence Force to a 1-1 draw.

Club Sando, with new coach Angus Eve at the helm, took the lead in the seventh minute through Keron Cornwall but Stars evened the scores in the 25th through former national striker Jason Scotland.

Club Sando regained the lead in the 45th minute, through striker Akeem Roach, who slotted home a right-footed shot from close range, into a vacant net, after some good work on the left by midfielder Kevon Piper.

Ma Pau Stars tilted the balance in their favour with a pair of goals, early in the second half.

Scotland netted his second goal in the 48th, with a neat left-footed shot past goalkeeper Kelvin Henry after he was set up by another ex- TT player/winger Hayden Tinto.

The Club Sando backline went haywire two minutes later, as Jerrel Britto made a run down the right and picked out veteran Kerry Baptiste, who needed two efforts to bundle the ball into the back of the net. Henry and defender Trevin Latapy were both injured in the play and had to be replaced.

On the topic of replacement, there was a piece of irony in the 61st minute when Stars’ 27-yearold Neil Mitchell was brought on for 24-year-old Neil Mitchell; certainly a rare moment where two players with identical names were involved in the same team in topflight local football.

By the time that substitution was made, the scores were level at 3-3 as goalkeeper Glenroy Samuel and centre-backs Glenton Wolfe and Keryn Navarro made a mess of attempts to stop Cornwall in the box, and the ball fell to Roach to nudge home from close range.

Britto netted Stars’ fourth goal in the 79th with a shot past substitute Sando goalie Stefan Berkley after collecting a pass from Tinto.

And the younger Mitchell ended the scoring in the 86th, with a close range shot following a counter-attack.

In the earlier contest at the Ato Boldon Stadium on Sunday, Tyrone Charles notched a hat-trick as Jabloteh registered their fifth win of the season, while Point Fortin Civic were consigned to their fifth defeat in six matches.

Charles found the back of the net in the second, 55th and 80th minutes, while Jerome McIntyre (fifth) and Kennedy Hinkson (43rd) contributed one apiece. Sylvester Teesdale got the consolation item for the struggling Point Fortin outfit in the 45th.

In the Caledonia-Defence Force duel, veteran striker Devorn Jorsling converted a penalty in the 35th to put the Army-Coast Guard combination ahead, before Seon Thomas equalised for Caledonia in the seventh minute of second half stoppage time.