James Adderley has Sports Monday
Good evening; I’m James Adderley and you’re right on time for this portion of Sports Monday. Sagitun of Mango Creek stepped into the Ricalde Stadium yesterday looking to rebound off its first playoff loss in three home games. Hitting the road made things worse but La Victoria of Corozal had its own championship dreams and a poster by the Corozal crowd set the unwelcome tone for the visitors.
Folks it’s Sagitun looking for the quick lead off the corner kick but the feeder by Benedict Lopez is collected by Delmar Sutherland. Before we go on we must tell you that we think Referee Pelayo’s performance was below par. Nevertheless La Victoria mounts a dangerous drive that finds Clifford Usher setting table for Barney Cabb who follows through but guys Darren Hinds is legit. It’s more offense for Corozal when Clifford Usher launches a left foot bomb that inches over the crossbar.
The La Victoria team keeps pressing and this time it’s Oliver Hendricks attacking from the right side with a grass head burner that sizzles outside the sticks. At the half it’s still a scoreless ball game. As we go to second half an offense by Jason Hall deserves a red card but referee Pelayo settles for yellow. People the subsequent spotkick, it’s header into the danger zone Esteban Perez trails the play and heads the ball into the net for the early Sagitun second half lead. Corozal tries to reply immediately with Pedro Barrahona but Darren Hinds gets out of trouble with good help from his defense.
Remember the elbow, he looks in the first half well, Julia Valle retaliates and guess what, the businessman gets the referee to throw his out of the action. The numerical advantage gives La Victoria new impetus and they maximize when a corner kick reaches Clifford Usher whose header crashes into the net to tie the ball game. Corozal now looks for 3 points, Oliver Hendricks is stopped by Hinds, Joe West picks up the ball but can’t find the empty net.
Will Clifford Usher be the hero today? Could he, but not on this play in which he had 2 options. So at the end of regulation it’s a 1-1 tie.
So we go to overtime and it’s Oliver Hendricks with the opportunity for the golden goal but he gets embarrassed by Darren Hinds. At the other end Benedict Lopez almost gives Sagitun the win – but the shot is wide. Nevertheless the end comes sudden when Oliver Hendricks slices a shot past Hinds and the 2-1 overtime victory is history for La Victoria.
In other B.F.L. match, at capital city Belmopan, the Bandits fell in a 5-zip blast from Juventus of O.W.
After week IV Juventus lead the playoffs with 9 points, Corozal has pulled up to second with 6 points, Sagitun is stalled 5 points and Belmopan remains winless.
Meanwhile folks we gotta tell you that the National Football Team of Belize, all eighteen strong, leaves for the Nation’s Cup inside Costa Rica staged from March 16-28. Of course if you’re into football you all know that the B.N.F.A. is presenting the Futuro Coca Cola Course 2 which comes up from April 19-28 but you have to re-register even if you had registered before Mitch scared us out of the city.
Hey that’s about it. We wanna thank our cameramen for their great work. Jah over all; I’m James Adderley.
