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Champions Cavalier thump Molynes 5-1 on JPL return
December 09, 2024
Defending champions Cavalier Soccer Club returned to domestic football with a bang, following their Concacaf Caribbean Cup success, with a 5-1 win over Molynes United in their Jamaica Premier League football match yesterday.
Cavalier have been involved in the Caribbean Cup championship over the past two weeks, and defeated the Dominican Republic's Ciboa FC to lift the title.
Goals from Richard King (14th minute), Alexavier Gooden (34th), Shaquille Stein (51st), Orlando Russell (79th) and Odane Wilberforce (81st) saw the Rudolph Speid-coached team to a comfortable victory in their first game back.
Cavalier stayed sixth on 19 points, while Molynes United slipped back into the relegation zone, with 10 points.
In the first game of a doubleheader at Stadium East, Waterhouse turned back Dunbeholden 3-2.
Andre Fletcher scored a brace for Waterhouse, but strikes from Chantomoi Taylor and Ricardo Thomas levelled the contest at 2-2. But Leonardo Jebbison secured all three points for Waterhouse with an 82nd-minute strike.
Waterhouse (25 points) are second only on goal difference. While Dunbeholden stayed in seventh with 14 points.
Montego Bay United overtook Arnett Gardens for third, although only on goal difference, following a 4-2 win over Tivoli Gardens in the second game of a doubleheader at Stadium East.
Goals from Shaneil Thomas and Brian Brown twice put MoBay ahead. But Nichalia Fuller replied with a brace to tie the scores. However, second half strikes from Odane Nish and Deverow McKenzie ensured three points for the Montegonians, who climbed to 24 points, one point behind Mount Pleasant and Waterhouse, respectively.
"It was not an easy game. But we knew it was not going to be an easy game," Rudolph Zapata, MoBay's head coach stated.
"When you cannot play good football, you have to show attitude and that's what my boys showed.
"Unfortunately because of the weather the last four or five games, the pitch conditions was not good. There are no excuses and we represented our supporters in the most fashionable way," Zapata added
MoBay jumped in front after 18 minutes through a great individual goal from Thomas.
Fuller pulled Tivoli level with a goal from the penalty spot in the 26th minute, following a handball.
Brown restored MoBay's advantage minutes later when he broke away and fired past Diego Haughton.
It wasn't long though before Fuller dragged Tivoli level when he beat Aaron Enill with a curling shot from 12 yards in the 33rd minute.
MoBay reclaimed the lead six minutes into the second half when Nish headed Owayne Gordon's corner past Haughton.
Tivoli threw everything at their opponents in the latter stages. But McKenzie put the game away in added time when he broke away and slotted between Haughton's legs.
"Today's game wasn't an easy game, " Tivoli's coach Jerome Waite commented. "The footing was a factor. It really created a problem in getting quality football from two good teams.
"But the next thing is how many errors we continue to make. These are players who want to try and move on to the next level. You can't be making so many silly errors.
"One of the high points of the game is Nichalia Fuller. He scored two excellent goals. But we have work to do," Waite added.
Tivoli stayed eighth with 13 points, the same as Racing and Vere. The latter defeated Chapelton Maroons 2-1 on a brace from Robinho Gordon. Alwayne Bryan had given Chapelton the lead in the 42nd minute.
Chapelton stayed at the bottom of the heap on nine points.
Portmore United stretched their winless run to four consecutive games after they were held to a 1-1 draw by Racing in the Portmore derby. Rushaun Small handed Portmore the lead after 12 minutes. But Giovanni Cunningham equalised six minutes after to salvage a point.
It was also a third successive draw for Portmore, who remained in fifth place on 22 points.
