Perfect pack Duckie’s Mt Pleasant clip coach’s former team as TG, Cavs also keep winning
Mount Pleasant’s coach, Donovan Duckie, got one up on his former charges, after the Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) debutants defeated last season’s beaten finalist, Waterhouse, 1-0 in a highly anticipated clash at Drax Hall yesterday.
Kemar ‘Bushy’ Beckford, Waterhouse’s top scorer from last season and one of three players who followed Duckie out of Dewsland to St Ann, got the all-important goal for the newcomers after 24 minutes.
The result means Mount Pleasant maintained their perfect win record from two games, and now share the lead at the top of the standings with Tivoli and Cavalier with maximum six points each.
At Stadium East, Cavalier with two late goals from Jamoi Topey and Nicholas Hamilton came from behind to score a dramatic 2-1 win over Arnett Gardens at the death. Arnett took the lead 79 minutes into the game, but Topey equalised on 90 minutes and Hamilton secured the full points for the host with a goal four minutes into added time.
The former Holy Trinity star said he was confident his team would get back.
“We went one nil down in the 75 minute, but we knew the quality of our team so we weren’t worried we could come back. We just knew we had to fight,” Hamilton said.
“We weren’t playing anything but the goal they scored woke us up. I didn’t have a good first half, but I went in second half and realised I just needed to calm down, as I was rushing the game too much. So I just relaxed my nerves and I came out and got it (goal) in the second half,” he recollected
“I expect a really good season from myself. I am working hard to get a call in the national senior team and my other aim is to score 20 goals this season. I am working hard. That is the first goal of the season and next game, I am going for more,” he added.
Meanwhile, Arnett Gardens coach Jerome Waite said his team lapsed in concentration.
“We got our fair chance and we didn’t execute, Cavalier got their chances and put them away. It’s a game we should have come away with something, but the concentration dropped and we got lackadaisical in our tracking,” Waite commented.
At Harbour View Stadium, Tivoli Gardens (TG) secured their second win of the season after goals from Deshawnie Campbell and Colorado Murray saw them past Reno 2-1. TG used ‘Compound’ as their alternate home venue, because the playing surface at their Edward Seaga Sports Complex home ground was still not ready, after some rehabilitation work.
Meanwhile, at Effortville, Humble Lion failed to secure their first win after two games, going down 1-0 to UWI, with Montego Bay United rebounding from last week’s defeat to Tivoli with a similar 1-0 win over Dunbeholden in the day’s other game.
The league continues this evening with Harbour View entertaining defending champions Portmore United in the Monday night live game at Harbour View this evening at 8:35.