PHC 2 Dandy Town 1Antwan Russell jumped off the bench last night to score the winner in his first game since rejoining PHC against his former team Dandy Town.

Russell has missed the first eight matches of the season while serving a suspension but wasted no time in getting in on the act with a smart finish late on to seal the win for high-flying Zebras at Somerset Cricket Club.

The pacey striker probably should have already had his name on the scoresheet been on the having had a goal disallowed for a dubious offside call.

Russell described his winner as "bittersweet" but said he was thrilled to get off the mark in his first game back from suspension.

"It's been frustrating not playing but hopefully this goal will kick-start my season," said Russell, who signed for PHC from Somerset Eagles in pre-season.

"It was kind of bittersweet because the goal was against my former club Dandy Town, but then someone had to do it."

The Bermuda international was disappointed coach Kyle Lightbourne had decided to start him on the bench and said he was determined to make the most of his chance when he replaced Quinton Burgess early on in the second half.

"I was disappointed not to have started the game but Omar Shakir told me stick in there and that I'd get my chance," Russell said. "I thought I should have had another goal but it was disallowed. I was sure I had come from behind the defender."

PHC, who are second in the Premier Division table, took the lead midway through the first half after Russell's former Eagles team-mate Aquino Grant found the target with a fine strike. After the break Hornets drew level after Keman Tucker scrambled home a corner kick that was spilled by PHC goalkeeper Raymond Glasford.

But it was Russell who had the final say with a sharp finish with just minutes remaining on the clock.

North Village 7 St David's 0

Jason Lee bagged a hat-trick as North Village hammered St David's at Devonshire Rec last night.

In a completely one-sided affair that Village never looked like losing, the only question mark was how many the league leaders might score. And if it hadn't have been for St David's goalkeeper Corey Richardson, the Warriors would have been on the end of a serious thumping.

Richardson made several top-drawer saves to deny Village, but in truth everything he did was rather futile.

From the seventh minute, when Diego McCallan clumsily upended Ralph Bean in the box and gave away a penalty, Village were in front.

Sammy DeGraff converted the spot kick, and when Ralph Bean got on the score sheet six minutes later the game was already over as a contest.

That Shaun Goater's side didn't score any more in the first half had as much to do with Richardson as it did with Village's rather sloppy approach to the game.

Goater though obviously had words after half time because it took Jason Lee just four minutes after the break to grab his first, and from then on it was one-way traffic.

Substitute Keishan Bean had been on the pitch less than two minutes before he got in on the action, racing on to a Lee through ball that he banged past the helpless Richardson.

He grabbed a second soon after Lee had got his, and then the scoring finished as it had begun, with a penalty.

Dimitri Butterfield fouled Devrae Tankard in the area, was sent off for a second bookable offence, and Lee stepped up to score from the spot and copmplete his hat-trick.

Goater's side are now three points clear at the top, although PHC still have two games in hand.