Shari John

Na­tion­al strik­er Natasha St Louis net­ted twice for Re­al Di­men­sion which scored a com­fort­able 3�0 vic­to­ry over Petrotrin Unit­ed in the Women's Foot­ball League (WoLF), which kicked off on Sun­day at the Mar­vin Lee Sta­di­um, Ma­coya. Di­men­sion and San Juan Jabloteh both kicked off the 2010 sea­son in fine style af­ter both teams se­cured com­fort­able vic­to­ries in their re­spec­tive match­es on Sun­day.

Karis­sa Rooney broke the game open with a 48th minute goal af­ter she sent a pass soar­ing in­to the right side of the net, se­cur­ing the first goal for Di­men­sion. St Louis emerged the star of the evening af­ter she scored two goals in the 74th and 77th minute re­spec­tive­ly. Com­ment­ing on his team's vic­to­ry Coach Ken Hoyte said the vic­to­ry was ex­pect­ed, as his play­ers ex­er­cised "more pa­tience on the field." "It was an ex­cep­tion­al game; the stan­dard was ex­treme­ly high for an open­ing game in the sea­son. Like us, Petrotrin has a num­ber of na­tion­al play­ers on their side, but I think the re­al de­cid­ing fac­tor was our abil­i­ty to re­main calm on the field," said Hoyte.

"We went in­to the half goal­less but com­ing in­to the sec­ond half we knew we had to make it work and we did. I would like to con­grat­u­late the girls on a match well played." Di­men­sion will face de­fend­ing cham­pi­on To­ba­go Women's FC on Ju­ly 4 at the Ply­mouth Recre­ation­al Ground, To­ba­go. When asked about his prepa­ra­tions for up­com­ing chal­lenge against the cham­pi­ons, Hoyte stat­ed "it's like prepar­ing for any oth­er team." "Re­al Di­men­sion is a well bal­anced ma­chine. I know To­ba­go has its key na­tion­al play­ers but that does not make a dif­fer­ence. Di­men­sion al­so has six girls who train with the na­tion­al team. Like any oth­er game we must con­cen­trate on our game and im­prov­ing our tech­nique. I am sure our re­sults will be no dif­fer­ent from yes­ter­day's match."

CAL San Juan Jabloteh se­cured a vic­to­ry for them­selves as well on Sun­day, as they man­aged to edge De­fence Force with a 62nd minute lone strike from na­tion­al play­er, Jinelle Kissoon. Sharon O'Brien, WoLF's Pres­i­dent de­scribed yes­ter­day's launch as a suc­cess; "We are mind­ful of the chal­lenges the league faces, but de­spite all ob­sta­cles all stake­hold­ers have come to­geth­er to pro­mote the beau­ti­ful game. I am con­fi­dent that this sea­son will be even bet­ter than the 2009 sea­son."