Alanna Lewis and Esther scored two goals each as Paragon maintained its perfect start to its title defense in the T&T Hockey Board National Indoor Championship Women’s Open Division with a 5-2 beating of Courts Malvern at the Woodbrook Youth Centre, Hamilton-Holder Street, Woodbrook on Saturday.
Winners of its opener, 2-1 over Ventures, Paragon raced into a 4-0 half-time lead over Malvern with Lewis (1st & 4th) and Dixon (5th & 11th) scoring first-half braces.
Krizia Layne pulled a goal back for Malvern in the 23rd but the prolific Kristin Thompson scored fifth for Paragon in the 33rd to kill off the contest before Layne grabbed a late second for Malvern.
The win lifted Paragon to maximum six points while Ventures, Malvern and Harvard Checkers are yet to get off the mark.
Petrotrin, Paragon
maintain streak
In the Men’s Open, Paragon, beaten in last year’s final by Queen’s Park, and Petrotrin are joint top of the table with maximum six points from two matches played each.
Paragon, coming off a 4-2 win over Defence Force to flick off its campaign, exacted some revenge on the Parkites with a 6-2 bashing led by a beaver trick from Akim Toussaint. Toussaint who is coming off a pro-stint in Australia got goals in the 13th, 23rd, 24th and 34th while fellow national players Kiel Murray (14th) and Christopher Scipio (32nd) were also on target for the rampant Paragon to cancel out items by Nicholas Camacho (21st) and Jerry Bell, on the stroke of full-time.
Petrotrin, which spanked Fatima 6-3 last weekend, got a double from Dwain Quan Chan, in the 27th and 38th minute and one apiece from Wayne Legerton (11th) and Brian Garcia (26th) to turn back Malvern 4-2, with Kristien Emmanuel getting both replies for the losers.
The Parkites also had a 3-3 draw with Notre Dame while Fatima outclassed Malvern 4-1 in Saturday’s other men’s encounter.
QPCC takes Mixed Veterans lead
In the Mixed Veterans, defending champion Queen’s Park climbed to the top of the table after getting two wins from as many matches played on Saturday, 7-5 over the previously perfect Notre Dame and 8-0 against winless Police.
With the six points earn, the Parkites improved to ten points from four matches and one match left to play against Defence Force (six points) while the Dames are second with nine points ahead of their final encounter versus Malvern which has two matches left and three points.
At the end of the Mixed Veterans round-robin the top four will advance to the semifinals on October 31, ahead of the final playoffs the following day.
RESULTS
Men’s Open
Notre Dame 3 (Shaquille Daniel 18th, 30th, Aidan De Gannes 32nd) vs QPCC 3 (Jerry Bell 13th, Mark Ayen 22nd, Dominic Young 40th)
Petrotrin 4 (Dwain Quann Chan 27th, 38th, Wayne Legertonn 11th, Brian Garcia 26th) vs Courts Malvern 2 (Kristien Emmanuel 20th, 32nd)
Fatima 4 (Che Modeste 4th, Andrew Vieira 13th, Jordan Vieira 33rd, Jeremy Nieves 35th) vs Courts Malvern 1 (Hume 29th)
Paragon 6 (Akim Toussaint 13th, 23rd, 24th, 34th, Kiel Murray 14th, Christopher Scipio 32nd) vs QPCC 2 (Nicholas Camacho 21st, Jerry Bell 40th)
Women’s Open
Paragon 5 (Alanna Lewis 1st, 4th, Esther Dixon 5th, 11th, Kristin Thompson 33rd) vs Courts Malvern 2 (Krizia Layne 23rd, 39th)
Mixed Veterans
Courts Malvern 4 (Anthony Marcano 13th, 29th, Cecile Wren 8th, Korry Bannett 14th) vs Police 0
QPCC 7 (Raphael Govia 8th,, 27th, Jerry Bell 9th, 26th, Claire Dos Santos 13th, Gary Chin 21st, Richard Thomas 28th) vs Notre Dame 5 (Selwyn King 20th, 22nd, 24th, 26th, Edrich Francois 8th)
Notre Dame 4 (Selwyn King 12th, 14th, 17th, 23rd) vs Defence Force 2 (Nicholas Wren 11th, 19th)
Fatima 7 (Derek Lee 10th, 11th, 11th, 12th, Rolph Young 9th, 12th, Brian Garcia 20th) vs Defence Force 3 (Gary Griffith 8th, Anthony Morales 28th, Nicholas Wren 30th)
Mixed Division
QPCC 8 (Claire Dos Santos 2nd, 4th, 6th, 8th, Raphael Govia 1st, 22nd, Azad Ali 19th, Richard Thomas 30th) vs Police 0