Out of favour national forward Wayne Legerton scored a pair of goals to lead Petrotrin to a convincing 4-0 bashing of Defence Force and a sixth straight win in the T&T Hockey Board Men’s Championship Division on Sunday. Playing in the final match of the day at the National Hockey Centre, Tacarigua, Legerton fired the Oilmen ahead in the 19th while his former national team-mate Atiba Whittington made it 2-0 five minutes later.
Any chances of Defence Force clawing its way back into the match quickly disappeared in the second half as Legerton scored in the 48th minute, to put his team 3-0 ahead before Solomon Eccles added a fourth item in the 56th. The win pushed the Oilmen’s points tally to a maximum 18 from their six matches, four more than defending champions Notre Dame which also registered an impressive 4-1 thumping of Fatima.
Leading the way for the Dames were Keith De Peza (tenth and 17th) and Ishmael Campbell (43rd and 53rd) while Devin Hooper had briefly tied the match at 1-1 with a 13th minute reply for Fatima. Paragon maintained its hold on third spot with 12 points following a 2-0 blanking of Courts Malvern with national forward and reigning T&T Hockey Board “Player of the Year”, Akim Toussaint netting both goals in the 17th and 60th minutes.
Defence Force remained on nine points while Queen’s Park is next with eight, followed by Fatima and Paradise, both with six and Malvern, a further point behind. At the top of the seven-team Women’s Championship Division is Georgetown Cricket Club of Guyana with 20 points from its 12-matches campaign, seven more than Shandy Carib Magnolias which has only played six matches while defending champion Paragon is third with 12 points from seven matches.
Harvard Checkers is fourth with nine points from six matches, followed by Notre Dame with seven, Courts Malvern (five) and pointless Ventures.
Sunday T&T Hockey Board Results
Under-19 Boys:
• Notre Dame 5 (J Thomas 20th, Joshua Olton 43rd, Miguel King 46th, K Romain 60th, Nicholas Whiteman 64th) vs Raiders 0
• Shape 4 (Roshane Hamilton 11th, Leumas Neptune 25th, Ghardel Elcock 60th, T Burroughs 67th) vs Petrotrin 0
Men’s Championship Division:
• Notre Dame 4 (Keith De Peza 10th, 17th, Ishmael Campbell 43rd, 53rd) vs Fatima 1 (Devin Hooper 13th)
• Petrotrin 4 (Wayne Legerton 19th, 48th, Atiba Whittington 24th, Solomon Eccles 56th) vs Defence Force 0
• Paragon 2 (Akim Toussaint 17th, 60th) vs Courts Malvern 0