{"id":2644,"date":"2019-08-02T22:07:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T22:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2644"},"modified":"2019-08-02T22:08:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T22:08:47","slug":"flanker-all-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=2644","title":{"rendered":"Flanker all the way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Noelita Lawrence-Ricketts<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adrian Peart\u2019s towering header was enough to for Flanker United as they strolled to the St. James FA Guardian Group Division Two Football title, clipping King Gate 1-0 in the grand final on Sunday, July 28, at the UDC field to hoist the crown.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flanker, with the victory, walked away with the $100,000\npurse money, medals and the championship trophy, while their beaten opponents\ntook home $70,000 and silver medals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two finalists also gained promotion to next season\u2019s\nDivision One League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flanker, the installed favourites for the title, lived up to expectations, avenging their only defeat to the said opponent, dominating the King Gate team all the way to the final whistle and ending their unbeaten run.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jermaine Irving of Flanker takes possession of the ball ahead of his opponent in the Guardian Group Division Two finals.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Without a team in any league in the parish since the fall of\nFogo, Flanker were smooth in attack and dominated all the way to the finish,\ndespite not being lethal in front of goal, missing a flurry of chances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peart\u2019s vital goal came in the 25th<\/sup> minute,\nrising unchallenged between two defenders to power home from a corner kick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The nippy, speedy Jermaine Irving who was named joint\nLeading Goal-scorer, Norman Street and Danique Clarke had the big misses for\nFlanker, who held out for the victory with stout defending.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flanker were in the driver\u2019s seat from the  opening whistle and should have opened the\nscoring when Clarke, in on goal after a driving run down the flank by Irving,\nsaw the ball taken off his toes by an advancing King Gate goalkeeper. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irving also missed the chance to get on the score-sheet,\nfailing to get a boot to a loose ball at the back post on a drop off which saw\nhim almost on the goal line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King Gate played in spurts and offered little by way of\nattack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRESENTATONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meantime, Better Tomorrow and Rosemount finished third and\nfourth, collecting 40 and 30 thousand dollars respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tajae Blake, who again was outstanding for the Flanker team,\nwalked away with the top award of the day, being named the Most Valuable Player\n(MVP).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Irving of Flanker, along with Lesroy Williams of King Gate,\neach with four goals, were named joint leading scorers. The Fair Play plaque\nwent to Better Tomorrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregory Daley, President of the FA, said despite not being\naround for a few of the games, the season was a good one. \u201cIt started out a bit\nslowly with the teams struggling to get a rhythm, but it heated up in the\nmiddle with the top teams separating themselves. The finalists were clearly the\nbetter of the lot and in the end I believe the better team won.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey were a bit more prepared, organized and played like a\nunit and it paid off in the end. They should cause a few upsets in the Division\nOne,\u201d Daley also a coach added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noelita Lawrence-Ricketts Adrian Peart\u2019s towering header was enough to for Flanker United as they strolled to the St. James FA Guardian Group Division Two Football title, clipping King Gate 1-0 in the grand final on Sunday, July 28, at the UDC field to hoist the crown. Flanker, with the victory, walked away with the $100,000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[127,409,1385,50,30],"class_list":["post-2644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-flanker","tag-football-association","tag-guardian-group-division-2","tag-sports","tag-western-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2644"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2644\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}