Garvey Maceo drub Fair Prospect 6-0

by Dwight Nelson and Michael McLean , Star Writers

Ben Francis Cup champions Garvey Maceo scored a sparkling 6-0 win over Fair Prospect in their Group One quarter-final round game of the ISSA/Digicel/Pepsi daCosta Cup competition at Jamalco Sports Complex in Clarendon, yesterday.

In a game which the winners dominated throughout, ace striker Ashton Bennett netted five times for Garvey Maceo to push his season's tally to 35 goals while Odane Richards scored the other goal.

"The team was not playing to instructions. They had stage fright playing in front of such a large crowd," Donovan Ricketts, coach of Fair Prospect, said. He added: "This is, however, the first the team is going so far in the competition, so it's a great, achievement for them."

Winning coach Jeffery Hewitt told Star Sports that he had made certain tactical changes to the team in terms of changing the roles of some of the players, which lifted the team's performance.

In a Group Two encounter played at the same venue, Clarendon College, managed to hold defending champions Glenmuir in a 1-1 draw.

In St. Elizabeth, a defensive mix-up in the 26th minute of play gave Rusea's High School a 1-0 win over Munro College at the St. Elizabeth Technical High School in Santa Cruz.

The goal was scored during a melee in the Munro 18-yard box. Rusea's forward Garfield Duncan's shot deflected off a defender and beat Munro's goalkeeper Errol Reid in the rain-affected game. The goal was credited to Duncan. Coach of the many times champions Rusea's, Anthony 'Follies' Williams, was quite pleased with the win.

"I thought we played well to earn the full three points. It was important that we earned a win in our first game," Williams said. He admitted, however, that Munro also played well, especially in the second half.

Munro's coach Hopeton Gilchrist was very disappointed with his team's loss.

"We got the first opportunity in the game to take the lead but we didn't capitalise on it. We had Rusea's on the back foot for most of the game. We have to get back to the drawing board in order for us to win our next two games," coach Gilchrist said.