Cane End Club overruns Stubbs

Cane End Football Club, after dominating the Marriaqua Football League for many years, has turned their eyes on the National Commercial Bank (NCB) Biabou Nine-a-side competition.{{more}}

Facing Stubbs in last Sunday’s Final, and watched by a large crowd, Cane End, with a brace from J’var Francis and one each from Orande James and veteran player Alwyn Guy, defeated their opponents 4-2, at the pentagonal shaped Biabou Playing Field.

But it was Stubbs’ stand out player, Norris John, who sent his team into the lead. His effort, though, was cancelled by Francis’ first.

Stubbs regained the lead as John added his second goal of the match.

Guy then levelled the scores to end the half even.

Cane End got their first lead of the final, when Francis got the go ahead goal after neatly slipping the ball into the net from a near post pass from his elder brother Hans.

James sealed the deal from the penalty spot, as he carried his tally to sixteen goals.

This earned the diminutive striker the Most Goals trophy. He was also voted the competition’s Best Striker.

The evergreen Guy, a former St. Vincent and the Grenadines international, was named the Best Mid -Fielder.

Dwight Allen, also of Cane End, copped the title of Best Defender.

Hollis John, of third place team Overland, was adjudged the Best Goal Keeper on show.

But it was Stubbs’ John who had the greatest impact on the competition.

John, who had shown some early promise some years ago, was named the competition’s Most Outstanding Player.

Apart from being the fulcrum for his team, John also knocked in fourteen goals.

It was good practice for Cane End, one of the “Elite” clubs which has qualified for the National Club Championships, which is set to begin in August, as the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Football Federation ushers in a new era in local Football.

The competition, which has been sponsored by the NCB since 1999, saw fourteen teams competing for the top honours.

The organisers hope to run a floodlight small goal competition on the Biabou Hard-court in the very near future.(RT)