North Village 5

Devonshire Colts 2

Shayne Hollis can expect some “special attention” in the coming weeks after helping North Village storm to victory with a four-goal blitz at home to Devonshire Colts.

Hollis is enjoying the form of his life, having also scored four goals away to Boulevard last weekend, and on this evidence is showing no signs of drying up any time soon.

In a similar pattern to last weekend’s 4-2 win over Boulevard, Village fell behind to an early goal before seizing control predominantly through the deadly finishing of the red-hot Hollis.

Colts took the lead in the first minute after a free kick found an unmarked Deandre Wainwright, who had the simple task of poking beyond Tahj Bell, the Village goalkeeper.

There seems to be a calmness about Village these days, however, and the home team did not appear overly rattled after finding themselves trailing so quickly.

They worked their way back on level terms through a twelfth-minute penalty from Hollis after Demetre Daniels had been brought down by a reckless challenge by Colts right back Justin Maybury.

Hollis put Village ahead in the 23rd minute after a piece of individual brilliance by the man-of-the-moment, who was picked out on the left by a midfielder Phillip Parsons.

Cutting inside onto his right foot, Hollis curled in a superb effort from the edge of the area beyond Gregory Rose, the Colts goalkeeper, to further outline the different types of goals he is capable of scoring.

Village then survived a scare when Jalen Harvey sliced a clearance into the path of Teniko Eve who forced Bell into a reflex save to preserve Village’s one-goal lead.

Colts rarely threatened after that and there was an air of inevitability when Hollis completed his hat-trick in spectacular fashion with a crisp volley after the Colts defence had only half cleared a corner in the 43rd minute.

Colts were powerless to dam Hollis’s free-flowing flood of goals, with the 27-year-old helping himself to a fourth soon after the restart, tucking in a right-footed effort inside Rose’s near post.

Moments later Keishen Bean, the Village captain, flashed a shot wide of Rose’s left-hand post before having a goal disallowed for offside as the home side continued to threaten.

Village kept the ball nicely at times during the second half and it was somewhat surprising it took them until the 79th minute to add a fifth through defender Kyle Knights, who slid home substitute Pierre Smith’s pull back.

Colts pulled one back against the run of play with arguably the best goal of the game when Kyle Jones crashed home a volley after he was picked out on the edge of the area from a corner kick.

Still, Village should have restored their four-goal advantage through Smith who burst through the heart of the Colts defence, rounding Rose before driving the ball into the side netting with his weaker left foot.

In the dying seconds Parsons was denied by the woodwork after smashing a venomous long-distance effort against the post with Rose well beaten.

TEAMS

Scorers

North Village (Hollis 12, 23, 43, 47, Knights 79)

Devonshire Colts (Wainwright 1, Jones 81)

North Village (4-3-3): T Bell — K Knights, T Wilson, J Harvey, D Tankard (sub: N Smith, 75min) — J Davis (sub: D Dillas, 76), P Parsons, K Bean — E Zuill, D Daniels (sub: P Smith, 69), S Hollis. Substitutes not used: Z Bowen, K Dill, D Dillas.

Devonshire Colts (4-5-1): G Rose — J Maybury, J Burgess, K Wilkinson, Q Jones — T Eve, L Symonds, V Lambe, J Bean-Lindo — D Wainwright (sub: K Jones, 81). Substitutes not used: A Hart, J Paynter, A Ball, B O’Connor, Q Simmons, K Darrell.