Corona League sides soundly beaten in FA Cup
There were no shocks in the First Round of the FA Cup with all four Corona League sides beaten.
After Island Bulls were beaten 9-0 by Devonshire Cougars on Friday night, FC Rhino, Inter BDA and Young Gunz were all soundly beaten on Sunday afternoon
FC Rhino were beaten 3-0 by St. George’s Colts, winners of the competition two years ago, at White Hill Field.
FC Rhino, sporting former Premier Division players Keith Jennings, Vernon Perinchief and Lozendro Symonds, held their own in the opening minutes of the match and made it difficult for their Premier Division opponents to penetrate as they threw all players behind the ball.
Despite dominating possession, St. George’s lacked the finishing finesse with Jarazinho Bassett and Jahron Dickinson guilty of clear-cut misses sandwiched between Rhino’s goalkeeper Greg Rose making a fingertip save to push Isai Gibbons’ shot over the top.
The Corona league outfit put up a gallant effort until the 26th minute when Malachi Trott struck a humdinger from 25 yards, which sailed past the Rhino’s goalkeeper into the roof of the net. FC Rhino had a good opportunity to score moments later when the ever-dangerous Jennings was brought down from behind when zoning in on goal but Rico Beek hit the free kick into the wall.
Goalkeeper Rose kept his team in the game with a good fingertip save and then dived to his right to deny Trott’s goalbound drive as the half ended 1-0.
The East Enders doubled their lead when Bassett found his captain Kashe Hall with a cutback and he side-footed home at the second attempt after the ball bobbled between his feet on his initial effort. Rhino’s best chance came when Marqual Waldron played Jennings through but his shot was blocked for a corner.
Rose was then well-positioned to palm Nzari Paynter’s dipping shot away but could do nothing about Gibbons’ firm drive which nestled into the top left corner a minute later.
X-Roads Warriors came from behind to beat Inter Bermuda 4-1. Inter Bermuda made a dream start when Kovin Moodley put them ahead in the fifth minute.
X-Roads were thrown a life line when they were awarded a penalty but Paul Simons blasted his effort over the bar to leave his team trailing 1-0 at the break.
Tymon Daniels went close to equalising for X-Roads when his angled effort struck the post before Danavon Thompson finally brought the teams level in the 49th minute.
Simons made amends for the earlier penalty miss to put X-Roads ahead in the 66th minute before Aaron Spencer pounced in the 80th and 89th minutes.
Boulevard Blazers kept their nerve in the penalty shoot-out to edge out Robin Hood.
Hood had the better of the first half, with Keishen Bean firing straight at Blazers stand-in keeper Kelvon Butterfield inside five minutes. Just before half time, the influential Cory Booth had a shot cleared off the line by Blazers defender Darius Cox, before Bean struck wide.
Blazers sub Jahzion Talbot-Thomas missed a penalty just after the hour when Hood defender Tariq Bean blocked an effort by Treazi Gibbons with his arm. The match ended goalless after 90 minutes, and stayed this way in extra time.
Hood had two of their first three penalties in the shoot-out saved by Butterfield, hitting the bar with the other. Kyah Blyden scored the winning kick for Blazers, who scored all three from 12 yards
