{"id":3365,"date":"2020-02-12T20:25:30","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3365"},"modified":"2020-02-12T20:25:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-12T20:25:31","slug":"cambridge-hunt-first-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3365","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge hunt first win"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Noelita Lawrence-Ricketts – <\/strong>Staff Reporter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Six battling teams including last year\u2019s beaten\nfinalists, Cambridge, will be in action over the next two days, Wednesday and\nThursday, as the action and push for points intensifY in the St. James\nFA\/Sandals Resorts International Major Football League.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A heavyweight affair\nhighlights the two matches set for Thursday, February 13, in which Cambridge,\nstill searching for their first win and really struggling to get going, are\nscheduled to be involved in a showdown with Montego Bay Boys\u2019 and Girls\u2019 Club\n(MBBGC) at the UDC field starting at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cambridge,\nsemi-finalists for the past three seasons and overwhelming favourites last year\nbefore choking in the grand finale, have already suffered defeat and with two\ndrawn results, hold just two points going into the expected epic fixture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, the\nred-and-white-clad Cambridge, admired for their brand of passing football at\nlightning pace, know they will have to be at their best when they take to the\nfield against a rejuvenated Boys\u2019 Club team, which has marked off two wins from\ntheir last outings after opening the season with defeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boys\u2019 Club sit\nsecond in the zone with 6 points, three adrift of the pacesetters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elsewhere, Somerton,\nwho won last time out, engage battling and aging Melbourne in Somerton, both\nsearching and in need of three precious points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both are in mid-pack\nof the standings each with four points a receipt for attacking and exciting\nfootball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The action swings\ninto gear later today, Wednesday, February 12, with former champions, Violet\nKickers, meeting Fire House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Promoted Fire House\nhave just one win so far, but have been showing good form and holding their\nown, one of only two teams yet to taste defeat. Melbourne, meanwhile, have been\ndefeated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HEIGHTS DAZZLE<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Heights\u2019\nimpeccable form continued on Monday afternoon following their 3-1 triumph over\ntottering Bogue at the UDC field in a thrilling encounter, collecting a fourth\nstraight victory.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slow but tricky and\nfull of skills, striker Anthony Gooden, getting his second successive start,\nbanged in a double while Ricardo Wilson added the other, opening the scoring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson, formerly of\nCornwall College, opened the scoring with a strike from just outside the\n18-yard box, striking an unstoppable shot into the back of the net, this after\njust seven minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After several\nattacks, Bogue got a break through in the 29th<\/sup> minute when they\nconverted a penalty, lashing in to the right of the goalkeeper, through the\nwily Sanjay Patterson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Gooden\nrestored Heights\u2019 one-goal lead when he capitalized on a defensive error to tap\nin from close range midway the opening 45 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The win was then\nsealed  in the 76th<\/sup> minute\nwhen Gooden again found himself unmarked inside the penalty area. This time he\nswept home, getting on the end of a wonderful delivery from the roving Kamali\nPowell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noelita Lawrence-Ricketts – Staff Reporter Six battling teams including last year\u2019s beaten finalists, Cambridge, will be in action over the next two days, Wednesday and Thursday, as the action and push for points intensifY in the St. James FA\/Sandals Resorts International Major Football League. A heavyweight affair highlights the two matches set for Thursday, February […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365","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=3365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3366,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3365\/revisions\/3366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}