James Adderley reports weekend sports
Good evening, I’m James Adderley and welcome to another great serving of Sports Monday. The B.F.L. three game championship series kicked off last Sunday with Juventus of Orange Walk handing Real Verdes a 2-1 punch at the People’s Stadium.
Obviously, going into yesterday’s ball game Real Verdes needed at least a big “W” to force a decisive game three and in the early going at the Norman Broaster Stadium it is Real Verdes on the move. It’s only six minutes deep when the spotkick is misplaced by Charlie Slusher and while the ball crashes into the back of the net, referee David Jones ruled Ernest Leslie committed a dangerous play to keep that ball alive.
Two minutes later Lisbey centers to rookie Aaron Lucario and he scores as pretty a header as you’d want to see. Verdes goes up 1-zip. Juventus goes to their Honduran striker Luis Valejo for a response but he just can’t quite finish the play. The former Real España striker Valejo comes through at the twenty fifth minute for Juventus tying the ball game at 1 a piece with this header. Verdes gets the opportunity to lead but this is one shot that Tate would rather take back. It’s another chance at the lead for Real Verdes but again Verdes lets Charlie Slusher off the hook. At the other end Danny Tun gets his turn to give O.W. the lead but at the half it’s still a 1-1 ball game.
It’s some 19 minutes after intermission when “smart” Osoboro digs this ball out of his own goal. The pill ends up with Freddie Tun in possession; he deals to Donnie Tun and boom, it’s a 2-1 O.W. lead. From this point it’s all downhill for Verdes: Rookie Lucario gets chased off the field by referee David Jones and key mid-fielder for Verdes Denmark Casey is stretchered out of the ball park, a victim of a cruel clash of bodies.
When this center goes to Freddie Tun Juventus goes up 3-1. In the closing minutes Valejo the Honduran gets his second at the mat with this left foot blast as Juventus wins 4-1, to end the three game series in three straight outings, taking the 1998 B.F.L. Knock-Out Football title, their sixth in 3 years of professional football play. All congratulations are due.
Turning to volleyball, Saturday’s ticket at the City Centre saw BH Stars stamp out Savco 15-02, 15-09; Belize Bank Bullets shot down Central Bank Jabirus 21-12, 17-21, 21-12; Continental Flyers grounded Barclays Eagles 21-11, 21-10 and Pepsi/ American Eagles proclaimed over the Belize Junior team 15-06, 15-10.
In closing folks, after 32 teams and 32 days of action the World Cup of Soccer at France reached money-time yesterday with France, the host country handing Brazil a 3-zip blast. Certainly it was unexpected, certainly no one could have figured the Brazilians could have looked so weak, so inefficient, so uncombatative. Life is real and yes, nuff respect to the French national team; they picked up their fist World Cup of Soccer.
That’s it. Jah over all. I’m James Adderley.
