Three dif­fer­ent play­ers were on tar­get as Ma Pau whipped To­ba­go Unit­ed 3-1 at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo on Fri­day to close the gap on Dig­i­cel Pro League lead­ers, De­fence Force to three points. !--break--> Go­ing in­to the match, the 'Casi­no Boys' un­der coach Michael Mc Comie, had won on­ly one of its pre­vi­ous four match­es and were un­der a bit of pres­sure to come away with full points. To­ba­go-born, Tevin Cae­sar pro­vid­ed them with the ear­ly spark when he opened the scor­ing af­ter on­ly the 14th minute while Ker­ry No­ray made it 2-0 in the 28th minute as the dom­i­nant Ma Pau took a com­fort­able lead in­to the in­ter­val.

On the re­sump­tion, To­ba­go pro­vid­ed a tougher test and in the 64th minute sliced the lead in half through Guyanese mid­field­er Kay­o­de Mc Kin­non. How­ev­er, that was as close as To­ba­go got as An­tho­ny Wolfe added an in­jury time third goal for Ma Pau, for its sec­ond win of the sea­son. The vic­to­ry im­proved Ma Pau to sec­ond on the ta­ble with nine points from five match­es, three adrift of idle lead­ers, De­fence Force who has max­i­mum 12 points from four match­es. Third is W Con­nec­tion with eight points fol­lowed by de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons, bmo­bile Joe Pub­lic and San Juan Jabloteh, with sev­en points each. At the Mar­vin Lee Sta­di­um, Ma­coya, an un­der­strength Joe Pub­lic was held to its fourth drawn re­sult in five match­es, this time in a 1-1 dead­lock with W Con­nec­tion.

Both goals at Ma­coya, came in the space of four min­utes as Joe Pub­lic went ahead 1-0 in the 16th minute thanks to a strike from Japan­ese mid­field­er, Yu Hoshide be­fore Matthew Bartholomew con­vert­ed a penal­ty four min­utes lat­er to earn a share of the points for W Con­nec­tion. In Sat­ur­day's oth­er match, strik­er Odelle Arm­strong slammed in a sec­ond-half hat-trick for St Ann's Rangers in a 5-2 thrash­ing of Po­lice at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va. Arm­strong, for­mer­ly of Cale­do­nia AIA and De­fence Force got his goals in the 53rd, 65th and 89th minute while cap­tain net­ted the oth­er two, in the 48th and 88th min­utes. For Po­lice, Telon Williams got both replies, in the 76th and 82nd min­utes. Match­es con­tin­ue on Fri­day. On Fri­day, Jabloteh blanked Stars 2-0 and FC South End up­staged Cale­do­nia AIA 2-1 at Mu­cu­rapo.

Re­sults

Dig­i­cel Pro League Sat­ur­day

Ma Pau 3 (Tevin Cae­sar 14th, Ker­ry No­ray 28th, An­tho­ny Wolfe 90th) vs To­ba­go Utd 1 (Kay­o­de Mc Kin­non 64th).

Joe Pub­lic 1 (Yu Hoshide 16th) vs W Con­nec­tion 1 (Matthew Bartholomew 20th pen).

Rangers 5 (Odelle Arm­strong 53rd, 65th, 89th, Josi­mar Bel­grave 48th, 88th) vs Po­lice 2 (Telon Williams 76th, 82nd).