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Thursday, May 1, 2025

Jabloteh, Police advance on penalties

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Dig­i­cel T&T Pro League duo and for­mer FA win­ners, Play Whe San Juan Jabloteh and Po­lice FC both need­ed penal­ty-kicks to book their place in the quar­ter­fi­nal round of this T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion FA Tro­phy com­pe­ti­tion in late match­es on Sun­day night.

Jabloteh, win­ners in 1998, 2005 and 2010-2011, first had to come from a goal down to earn a 1-1 draw with To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion out­fit, Bethel Unit­ed, be­fore ad­vanc­ing 5-3 penal­ty-kicks at Mt Gomery, To­ba­go.

Ver­non Wil­son had giv­en the host a shock 17th minute lead, but Jabloteh's Shaquille Bertrand tied the scores 1-1 two min­utes in­to the sec­ond-half to send the match to penal­ties, where the San Juan club pre­vailed.

At the St James Po­lice Bar­racks Train­ing Ground, Long Cir­cu­lar, goal­keep­er Adri­an Fon­cette pulled off three straight saves in the shoot-out to earn Po­lice, cham­pi­ons in 1975, 1994 and 1999, its last-eight spot, 3-1 in a heat­ed af­fair against a bat­tling Guaya Unit­ed.

Ear­li­er on, Shaquille Nes­bitt fired Po­lice ahead in the 16th minute, but one minute first-half in­jury time, Jody All­sop drew Guaya lev­el.

With 20 min­utes left in the match, Car­lon Hugh­es then turned in a free-kick to put the vis­i­tors ahead, but they could not hang on un­til the fi­nal whis­tle as Noel Williams head­ed home the Law­men equalis­er, three min­utes from full-time to send the match in­to penal­ties.

For Po­lice, Noel had his at­tempt saved, but Fon­cette came to his team's res­cue with three saves and was right­ful­ly swamped by his team, at the fi­nal whis­tle. How­ev­er, fel­low Pro League cam­paign­ers', Pt Fortin Civic failed to take its place in the last eight as it al­lowed a one-goal lead to slip four times and bowed out 5-4 on penal­ties to the An­tho­ny Streete-coached and Pro League-bound Club San­do

Win­ners of five of its last six match­es un­der in­ter­im coach for­mer na­tion­al stand­out Leroy De Leon, Civic opened the scor­ing as ear­ly as the fifth minute through for­ward Jamille Boatswain, on­ly for Club San­do's Ryan Fred­er­ick to draw his team lev­el in the 18th.

The pro­lif­ic Mar­cus Joseph fired Civic in­to a 3-2 ad­van­tage on the hour mark, how­ev­er, Te­ba Mc Knight hit back for Club San­do in the 75th, and in a top­sy-turvy con­test, Joseph fired in an­oth­er for his team to lead 4-3 in the 79th.

But four min­utes lat­er, in the see-saw bat­tle, Jesse Down­ing net­ted Club San­do's fourth equalis­er of the match to set up penal­ties, where his team showed bet­ter nerves, for a 5-4 vic­to­ry.

In Sun­day's ear­ly match­es six-time win­ners De­fence Force, Cen­tral FC and North East Stars all won to reach in the last-eight.

De­fence Force de­molised Black Rock 17-1; cur­rent Dig­i­cel T&T Pro League lead­ers and run­ners-up in the last two FA fi­nals, Cen­tral FC clob­bered SKHY FC 7-0, and Japs North East Stars, edged Cale­do­nia AIA, vic­tors 1-0.

Last night, ti­tle-hold­er and four-time win­ners (1999, 2000, 2002, 2013-2014) Di­recTV W Con­nec­tion played Su­per League club, Stoke­ly Vale and Rox­bor­ough Lak­ers en­ter­tained St Fran­cois Na­tion­al, in the two re­main­ing round-of-16 match­es.

The draw for the quar­ter­fi­nals take place to­day (Tues­day) at the T&TFA's of­fice, Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo from 2 pm.


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