Juventus and Acros Verdes draw 1-1

Good evening I’m James Adderley and you’re locked into this fresh dish of Sports Monday. Week five of the B.P.F.L. semi-pro football season found Acros Real Verdes of San Ignacio inside the People’s Stadium against Orange Walk’s Juventus. Would Juventus prevail as it did against Kulture Yabra on Wednesday night at the M.C.C. Grounds?

It’s Acros Verdes mounting the first real threat of the ballgame off this spotkick that finds the head of Bent Burgess, but Stanley Reneau sails and saves. Another spotkick provides Burgess with this opportunity to move the scoreboard, but he misplays the ball.

By the way Bent, you’re not fooling anyone with this hand ball okay–for which he gets booked with a yellow card.

Juventus finally gets something going, and indeed this player should have done better with this nice feed as he allows Darren Hinds to impress in goal.

But it’s Verdes with the momentum in the first half as Aaron Locario just misses the target with this header. Locario lunges at this drop from midfield, but can’t get enough of the pill to make it count. So at the half we’ve got a scoreless stalemate.

So we go to second half and O.W. comes out firing, but this shot seems to fade away from the goal. However, here comes the first goal of the ballgame. This centre from off the left side beats everyone except Bent Burgess and he gives Acros Real Verdes a 1-zip lead.

A couple of minutes later Burgess gets the opportunity to double the Verdes lead, but comes away empty. In the meantime, Juventus searches for the answer and this low cruise missile had potency, but did not quite produce the required result.

That persistence by Juventus pays off when Rudolph Flowers floats above the pack to nod this ball in with the equaliser.

Talk about looking a gift horse directly in the mouth, well number eleven Guillermo Castellanos simply misdirects from point-blank range. It costs Verdes the W, forcing them to settle for one point of the 1-1 regulation tie.

In other results from around the league, Kulture Yabra hurt Griga United 1-zip. Corozal Victory bombed Builders Hardware Bandits 3-1, while out at the island, San Pedro settled for a 1-1 tie with Sagitun of Independence.

Now let’s change gear folks and head to the Princess Margaret Drive for the finish of Saturday’s Red House criterium. And at the end of the twenty lap junior ride, it’s Chris Galvez like a bullet to grab top honours, forcing Leslie Sanchez, Wilbert Ebanks, Mark Staine, Marlon Castillo and Giovanni Leslie in the sprint to finish in that order behind him.

Now here’s a look at the start of the thirty-lap senior ride. Jawmeighan consults with this daughter, while the rest of the front line just await the opening bell.

It’s getting dark when the race winds down. Miguel Perez, riding for Red House by way of Guatemala, zips ahead of the crowd forcing Ernest Meighan–who suffered a punctured tyre–into second, Ariel Rosado takes third, Michael Lewis fourth and Anthony Taylor rounds out the top five.

Meanwhile folks, Sunday brought a fifty-six mile ride from Orange Walk to the Central American Boulevard here in Belize City. Ariel Rosado stepped up to win it all in two hours, seventeen minutes and forty-seven seconds. Jeffrey Zelaya took second, Ernest Thurton third, Douglas Lamb fourth, while Orson Butler rounds out the top five.

On the junior side, Marlon Castillo took top honours with a time of two hours, thirty minutes and forty-nine seconds. Miguel Jones took second, Chris Galvez third, Mark Staine fourth and Leslie Sanchez fifth.

Very quickly now folks, here’s a look at a couple of results from Sunday’s horse race card at Burrell Boom. Infrared of Palas Joseph Stables took the E Class three furlong in thirty-seven point four seconds, beating out No Apology. At C Class five furlong Jet Stream of Carr’s Stables outran Hoare’s Ali Banana in a time of one minute, fifty point four seconds. And in A Class six furlong sprint, Freight Line of Hoare’s Stable set a new track record of one minute, eighteen point one seconds in running away from Forever my Angel of Samuel’s Stables.

Hey folks, that’s our show for today, we invite you back same time, same place next week. Jah over all, I’m James Adderley.