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By George Alleyne
Defending champions Weymouth
Wales went into the final scrimmage
of a three-match playoff needing
a victory by two clear goals,
fought valiantly, even forcing the
game into extra time, but eventually
succumbed and ceded the Football
Premier League 2019 title to the Barbados
Defence Force (BDF).
These teams excelled and topped
the two zones of the Barbados Football
Association’s Premier League
round-robin competition, and
entered a best-of-three decider over
a week ago drawing the first fixture
2-2, and the army boys slamming
home two goals to hand Weymouth
a 2-0 defeat in the second.
But in the final game last Sunday
at the Wildey Astroturf, the Weymouth
players showed that they were
not the 2018 defending champions
and holder of the 2017 title by accident
as they hit home two goals in
the first half to erase the deficit and
level the goal aggregate at 4-all.
This forced the match into 30
minutes of extra time when Rashad
Smith put in the golden goal for the
BDF players making them Barbados
football kings for 2019.
This Premier League title for the
soldiers may be fitting as they had
been showing themselves to be the
most purposeful team of the 2019
competition.
To emerge top of Zone Two BDF
players were forceful enough to win
16 of 22 games played.
Weymouth players, on the other
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From left Vice Principal Ray Lawrence,
Head Coach Gary Francisco
and Principal Jacklyn Cayetano
at the Calabash Restaurant and
Lounge in Philadelphia.
Photo by Nelson A. King
Belize school
makes progress
By Nelson A. King
Officials at Stann Creek Ecumenical
College, the only Belize high school to
compete to date in the illustrious Penn
Relays Carnival at the Franklin Field
Stadium at the University of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia, have expressed satisfaction
with the school’s performance
for the second successive year.
“Overall, the results this year were
way better than that of last year’s in
terms of participation and performance,”
said Head Coach Gary Francisco,
in an exclusive Caribbean Life interview
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By Azad Ali
West Indies will have an added incentive
to win the 2019 World Cup after
the International Cricket Council (ICC)
announced a record US$4 million jackpot
for the champion.
The tournament, which runs from
May 30 to July 14, will see the West
Indies along with the hosts England,
defending champions Australia,
Afghanistan, India, New Zealand, Pakistan,
South Africa and Sri Lanka, all
challenging for top honors.
All ten teams will face each other in
a round-robin group stage, with the top
four advancing to the semi-finals.
The losing semi-finalists will pick up
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BIG WIN
Barbados Defence Force tops Barbados football league
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