{"id":2123,"date":"2019-02-04T20:17:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T20:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2019-02-04T20:17:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T20:17:14","slug":"rovers-hunt-third-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"Rovers hunt third straight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><b>Sandals Major League<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Noelita\nLawrence<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Smooth-sailing\nLilliput Rovers will look to extend their excellent early season form in the\nSt. James Football Association Sandals Resorts International Major League when\nthey tackle struggling Irwin in a lone Monday game (February 4) set to be\nplayed out at the Irwin High School.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rovers, former many-times semi-finalists, take aim at a third\nstraight as they bid for a return to sole leadership of Zone 1, \u2018The Group of\ndeath\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They will be up against an Irwin side that has yet to mark\noff a win, their only point coming from a drawn result. Irwin have also managed\nto score just once in two outings, with their strike force seemingly lacking in\nconfidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rovers, who flattered to deceive last year, flopping out at\nthe last four hurdle, are yet to conceded a goal while they have hit the back\nof their opponents\u2019 net five times already.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Promoted Bogue and Cambridge, still yet to secure a victory,\nlook to break that jinks when the two come face to face on Tuesday in an affair\nthat promises to be exciting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matches are slated to kick-off at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>MELBOURNE\nSQUEEZE THROUGH<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, as action continued at the start of the weekend,\nMelbourne Mind Games nabbed a second straight victory, clipping Catherine Hall\n1-0 in a competitive and entertaining showdown at the Albion playfield, while\nMarl Road and MoBay City, shared eight goals down the middle in a 4-4 thriller\nat the UDC field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watched by a good-sized crowd on hand at Albion, Melbourne,\nwho began the season with a heavy defeat, roared back in fine form and moved\ntheir points tally to six with victory over their longtime rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vital goal of the contest came in the 67th minute through\nsubstitute Trevon Allen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Allen slotted in mere ten seconds after getting onto the\npitch, and with his very first touch of the ball, getting on the end of an\nill-timed back pass to roll the ball into an unguarded net between the defender\nand the advancing goalkeeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Catherine Hall, suffering their first defeat of the campaign,\nwere wasteful in-front of goal, failing to take any of their many chances\ncreated, especially in the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jamario Wallace had one of the clearest chances for the\nlosers, crashing his unchallenged shot from inside the 18-yard-box onto the\ncrossbar as timed expired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Malik Cummings and Kemar Reid also missed glorious chances as\nthe Garfield Anderson-coached Catherine Hall, who moved the ball around with\nease playing slick one-two passes almost always, lacked composure to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>EIGHT-GOAL\nTHRILLER<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meantime, it was goals galore at the UDC field as for the second\ntime in three outings, Marl Road squandered an advantage and were forced to\nshare points with their opponents, playing out a 4-4 draw with youthful MoBay\nCity, who with the result, remained undefeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the latest clash, free-scoring Marl Road raced to a 3-1\nlead 25 minutes in, through a stunning hat-trick by Shevon Smith, only to be\npegged back by a charging City side who placed themselves in a winning position\nbefore conceding late in time added on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marl Road, through the energetic Smith, started like a\nrunaway train and raced into a cushioned advantage, scoring in the 7th, 20th\nand 25th minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Smith opened the scoring when he stabbed in uncontested at\nthe near post, before adding a second from the penalty spot. He later completed\nthe three-timer, getting on the end of a defense-splitting to pass to slot in\non the run past the goalkeeper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dalkeith McFerson earned his team a share of the points when\nhe found the equalizer in the second minute of time added on (90+2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">MoBay City, who had cut the deficit to one early on with a\ngoal from the penalty spot from Brandon Curate after 18 minutes, produced a\nsensational comeback, striking three times in the second half, including what\nshould have been the winner, but failed to hold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ryan Baker, Chris Christian in the 30th and 65th minutes and\nKenrick Smith, with what looked like the winner on the stroke of full time,\nwere the scorers for the MoBay City team, who remained undefeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Leacroft Lettman-coached team should have won the contest\nbut missed a flurry of chances, mostly one-on-ones with the goalkeeper. On each\noccasion, however, the attackers fluffed their shots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandals Major League Noelita Lawrence Smooth-sailing Lilliput Rovers will look to extend their excellent early season form in the St. James Football Association Sandals Resorts International Major League when they tackle struggling Irwin in a lone Monday game (February 4) set to be played out at the Irwin High School. 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