T&T Un­der-17s foot­ballers suf­fered a 5-1 drub­bing from fierce Caribbean Foot­ball Union ri­vals, Ja­maica, to crash out of hunt for a FI­FA World Cup spot at the 2015 CON­CA­CAF Un­der-17 Cham­pi­onship (CU17) at the Es­ta­dio Fran­cis­co Morazan, San Pe­dro Su­la, Hon­duras on Sun­day.

Go­ing in­to their first-ever meet­ing at the Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 lev­el, T&T, beat­en in its first three match­es need­ed a win to re­main in con­tention while the Ja­maicans were al­so af­ter all three points to re­main in the fight for top spot in the group and au­to­mat­ic World Cup qual­i­fi­ca­tion

It start­ed bright­ly for the Shawn Coop­er-coached T&T, when Chaz Bur­nett's 26th minute ef­fort from the left side of the box hit goal­keep­er Jah­mali Waite's hand, be­fore crash­ing off the near post while a minute lat­er, Ja­maica's Nathaniel Adamolekun and T&T goal­keep­er Levi Fer­nan­dez col­lid­ed at the penal­ty spot, as the ball con­tin­ued to­wards the goal.

With the win, Ja­maica im­proved to sev­en points from four match­es, three be­hind laders USA and one adrift of host Hon­duras, as all three teams ce­ment­ed spots in the qual­i­fy­ing play­offs for the least ahead of to­mor­row's fi­nal round of pool match­es.

Al­so on Sun­day, sub­sti­tute David Sanchez's 87th minute goal lift­ed Hon­duras to a 2-2 draw with the USA in their top of the ta­ble clash while Cu­ba held Guatemala to a 0-0 draw, which left the lat­ter out on con­tention to ad­vance.

Pool A will con­clude to­mor­row with T&T meet­ing Cu­ba from 4.30pm; USA against Ja­maica (7pm) and Hon­duras meet­ing Guatemala, from 9.30pm.

Re­sults

Sun­day's Con­ca­caf Un­der-17 Pool A re­sults:

Ja­maica 5 (Pe­ter Vas­sell 39th, Nathaniel Adamolekun 45th, Tajea Brown 80th, 85th, Dono­van Dawkins 82nd) vs T&T 1 (Noah Pow­der 44th)

Cu­ba 0 vs Guatemala 0

USA 2 (Lu­cas Del­la Torre 23rd, Joshua Perez 32nd) vs Hon­duras 2 (Vic­tor Mato­moros 16th, David Sanchez 87th)

Teams

T&T: 1.Levi Fer­nan­dez (20.Tyrek James 46th); 19.Noah Pow­der (capt), 4.Tekay Hoyce (Yel­low 18), 12.Kier­ron Ma­son, 3.Ke­ston Julien; 6.Ka­reem Ri­ley, 8.Joshua Bur­nett; 7.Sha­keem Patrick, 10.Mor­gan Bruce (11.Jer­ren Nixon Jr 72nd), 14.Isa­iah Hud­son (16.Shobal Ce­lestin 68th), 9.Chaz Bur­nett. Subs not used: 2.Isa­iah Gar­cia, 5.Shir­win Noel, 13.Kishon Hack­shaw, 15.Dar­nell Hospedales, 17.Jeankeon Alexan­der, 18.John-Paul Rochford. Coach: Shawn Coop­er.

Ja­maica: 13.Jah­mali Waite; 17.Ajeanie Tal­bott; 5.Jah­wani Hind; 6.Fabi­an Grant; 2.Ja­vian Brown; 14.Hakim Williams (Yel­low 36 - 16.Jahlanie Ham­mond 70th), 4.Shan­del Se­nior (Yel­low 42), 7.Pe­ter Vas­sell (3.Dono­van Dawkins 82nd), 19.Nathaniel Adamolekun, 10.Alex Mar­shall, 9.Nicholas Nel­son (8.Tajea Brown 65th). Subs not used: 1. Akeem Cham­bers (GK), 18. Chris-An­drew Dixon, 15. De­shane Beck­ford, 11. Zaire Bart­ley, 12. An­toniel Mullings, Coach: An­drew Ed­wards.

Stand­ings

Cur­rent Con­ca­caf U-17 Pool A stand­ing:

Teams P W D L F A Pts

USA 4 3 1 0 13 3 10

Hon­duras 4 2 2 0 7 3 8

Ja­maica 4 2 1 1 8 5 7

Guatemala 4 1 1 2 6 7 4

Cu­ba 4 0 3 1 2 7 3

T&T 4 0 0 4 2 13 0

Re­main­ing fix­tures

Pool A match­es Wednes­day :

T&T vs Cu­ba, 4.30pm

USA vs Ja­maica, 7pm

Hon­duras vs Guatemala, 9.30pm