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Exiles book spot in top flight

they demolished Coca-Cola 4-1 at Shelly Bay field.Antoine Cannonier and Marvin Hassan each netted two goals against one by Coke's Glenn Fubler to place Exiles on 17 points with two games remaining, three ahead of second-placed Somerset Extros,

they demolished Coca-Cola 4-1 at Shelly Bay field.

Antoine Cannonier and Marvin Hassan each netted two goals against one by Coke's Glenn Fubler to place Exiles on 17 points with two games remaining, three ahead of second-placed Somerset Extros, but more importantly five in front of third-placed St. George's All-Stars with only four points available.

Extros, known to eschew the thought of playing in the more physical Group A, can join Exiles if they can collect three points from the remaining matches or St. George's drop three and North Village Rams two points.

The west-enders hooked up with the latter in an exciting tussle over the weekend, which saw Extros emerge with a 5-3 victory.

Radell Tankard led the way for the winners with two goals while Mel Roberts, Donnie Simmons and Gladstone Robinson accounted for the others. For Rams, brothers Cal and Parks Dill along with Gino Phipps each scored one goal apiece.

Meanwhile, Prison Officers outgunned Devonshire Colts All-Stars 3-1 on a double-strike by Charlie Fox and a single tally from Kenny Butterfield. Johnny Robinson was the lone Devonshire marksman.

In Group A, Lobster Pot reached their lowest ebb and appear certain for relegation on the heels of a 3-2 defeat to Fire Service -- one of the sides with which they are battling for survival.

Pot led 1-0 at the half on a strike by Mike Evans only to have Service come back and take a 2-1 lead in the second before the former once again drew even at 2-2 as David Marchant notched his fourth goal of the season.

But Service sealed both points with a goal minutes from the end. Goal poachers on the day were Tracy Bean (two) and Alan Wilkinson.

Fellow strugglers Island Rangers awoke from a season-long slumber long enough to down Spinning Wheel 3-0 as Keith Bremar increased his tally to 15 with two goals while Troy Berkeley got one.

At the other end of the spectrum, league leaders BAA Wanderers crashed to only their second league defeat against Forties, who still harbour hopes of the title.

Roy Fellowes and Brian Fubler were both on target for the home side, but BAA still need just one point -- or Forties and Robin Hood to each drop a point -- to successfully repeat as champions.

Robin Hood edged KPMG Peat Marwick 2-1. An own goal by Rob Newman served to undo KPMG as this allowed Des Minors to pop up and notch the winner as time ran out. Before that the match had looked destined for a draw as Gary Knight had earlier scored on a penalty for KPMG.

Play in the Alliance League similarly saw one promotion and relegation spot confirmed.

Devonshire Colts will be playing in Group A next season based on their performance throughout 1992-93 and Saturday epitomised this as they slaughtered BAA 5-0.

Darren Smith (two), Quincey Aberdeen, Keishon Smith and Kenneth Dill all got on the scoresheet for the young Colts.

Another Group B result went in favour of St. David's 4-1 as they subdued Hamilton Parish through Eugene Crockwell, Patrick White, Kanhai Fray and Del Hollis. Ashton Outerbridge found the range for Parish.

Booking the flight down into the lower reaches was Devonshire Cougars, who succumbed 5-3 to North Village at Bernard Park.

Regular goalkeeper Dwayne Adams assumed a more attacking role for the match and was rewarded with two goals while Abdul Smith, Tito Smith and Richard Wilson also netted. For the losers Preston Mallory, Trevor Smith and Dwayne Bean all scored.

Somerset now find themselves in danger of making the drop as a result of a 5-2 shellacking at the hands of Boulevard.

Armel Thomas and Lamaul Crofton struck for the west-enders, but this was no match to the onslaught performed by the Blazers who counted through Brian Anderson, Amon Brown, Vernon Symonds, Warren Iris and Gary Mallory amongst their goal-scorers.

One final match witnessed St. George's dispose of PHC 3-1 with Marlon Outerbridge hitting the back of the net twice and Melvin Simmons once.

PHC's first-team coach Jack Castle scored the Zebras' solitary goal.