Gentle Touch and Millennium Girls triumph in female football
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly happy that you could join us for this cut of Sports Monday.
We take you out immediately to the Norman Broaster Stadium in Cayo for week three of the Female Football League competition where Gentle Touch of Esperanza played host to Hidden Treasures of Pomona. We pick up the action in second half play as the visitors go on the attack that ends with a left foot shot that won’t bend for Ashanti Velasquez. At the other end Cynthia Salazar fires this right foot that’s intercepted by the goal keeper. Pomona comes right back as Florence Cayetano really lets this one get away from her. Salazar then gets this look at goal that she should have put away instead she hits the near upright. A minute later Marsha Stevens sets table for Cindy Fuentes whose right foot splice ends up in the back of the net to produce the only goal of this ballgame and Gentle Touch wins 1-nil.
Meanwhile, if you want to see goals well lets head to Belmopan where the Millennium Girls of Belize City are being hosted by Cruz Azul of capital city. The visitors are already up 6-nil when super striker Shenell Gentle beats the Cruz Azul keeper with this run. It’s a minute later when she strikes for her fourth of the match on this right foot push. Gentle currently leads the league with six goals scored. Hey folks, this one ain’t a goal but it certainly displays the fact that Shenell has punch. Sara Arzu then gets in on the act with this right foot swing that gives her a second goal of the match. Gianni Cayetano powers home this right foot to records her third goal of the evening. And yes, Kursha Pollard scores her second goal of this ballgame as the Belize City team called Millennium crushes Cruz Azul 11-zip.
In the other match staged on the female schedule Saturday in O.W., Delille Pumas doubled the Sugar City girls in a 2-1 finish on two goals from Natashi Alvarez. On this week’s schedule Hidden Treasures will host Sugar City on Saturday at Pomona. On Sunday Gentle Touch of Esperanza visits Millennium Girls at the M.C.C. Grounds while Delille Pumas will host Cruz Azul at Dangriga.
In cycling news, the seventy mile female Cross Country Classic is set to blast off eight-thirty a.m. Sunday featuring seventeen athletes comprising of twelve locals and five foreigners including the defending champion Mexican Brenda Aguayo. Going into the 2008 edition, Anthea Sutherland, who recently won the Banana Classic, goes in as the defending Belizean champion, having won the 2005 even and Gina Lovell the 2006 champion not in the country. Speaking of the defending champion Brenda Aguayo, Anthea had this to say.
Anthea Sutherland, Telemedia Swoosh
“I agree ih perform wah lot at a higher level but if yoh look at it, in my view, yoh have wah lot ah female cyclists that work. When they get up in the morning they go and train then they have to get back home, hurry up and go to work. Brenda Aguayo, maybe she ride fi work, that’s her work job.”
James Adderly
“She’s a professional you think.”
Anthea Sutherland
“Yes, I think she’s a professional.”
James Adderley
“So how you gonna counter that?”
Anthea Sutherland
“I don’t know but we’ll see that day.”
James Adderley
“Okay, you know what it takes to be a champion. Have you done enough to be able to say that Althea Sutherland can be competitive in this race?”
Anthea Sutherland
“Yes, I’ve done enough.”
Her Telemedia Swoosh teammate Alicia Thompson, who won the Labour Day Classic, gave this perspective on the race.
Alicia Thompson, Telemedia Swoosh
“For this race we’re not certain of the caliber of foreigners coming in. however, we know of what the Belizean cyclists are capable of and we have proven in other races that we are able to keep up with whatever the Belizean female cyclists are able of doing. However, as I said before, we are not certain of what the foreigners are capable but we have prepared ourselves well to be able to keep up with them. But come that day, we’ll be ale to see who is the better cyclist and I’m sure if a Belizean wins this even they will be able to be crowned the most, I could say the best female cyclist there ever is in Belize City and I am more than willing to be able to try and conquer that.”
Another Belizean who could win it all is the up and coming Kaya Cattouse who is pumped up going into this 2008 Cross country race.
Kaya Cattouse, C-Ray
“well, going into this race, of course, is going in to win. When you talk about team, I am the only rider on my team this year. We had problems with the association bringing a female cyclist because there was a rule that you have to have two Belizean cyclists to bring in one foreigner. Well James, all I have to do is ride smart. Nothing can’t go lef me, I just have to play my cards right, just look at the race and see how it turns out.”
Okay Belize, get ready for a monster show this Sunday so you better stay tuned.
In basketball news, here are the results from the Juvenile League currently in session at Yarborough greens: Collet beat Side Ballers 35-32, and the East beat the West 31-30 in the All Star Game. Primary school All Star got past Mesop Bulldogs 48-46 while Collet Lake edged Poor and Famous 50-48.
Meanwhile people, the 2008 Interoffice Basketball League will blast off with two opening matches this Friday at the Civic Center. The Belize City Council takes on Tuff E Nuff in the opener while in the nightcap defending champion B.T.L. faces Home Protector/Tropic Air. Hey folks, eighteen teams are competing this year. They are divided into two groups of nine. You won’t want to miss this particular basketball season. Finally, the results from the Christian basketball league show that Open Door Saints outlasted Sandhill Spirit 77-65 and M&M Promise Keepers rolled over Horizon 62-35.
Hey folks, that’s our show for today. We certainly invite you back same time, same place, next week. Jah over all, I’m James Adderley.
