Hamilton Parish 1

Boulevard Blazers 2

Boulevard snatched a dramatic winner in stoppage time at Wellington Oval through Tiae-Vince Douglas to move six points away from the relegation zone.

Hamilton Parish, the bottom team, were minutes away from a valuable three points when Dunn-ya Taylor and Douglas turned the match around in sensational fashion with two late goals in the space of eight minutes to wipe out the lead given to Parish by substitute Aaron Burgess.

The Boulevard bench erupted when Douglas converted three minutes into stoppage time after Antoine Famous, who came on as an 82nd-minute substitute, swung in the cross from the right and Ian Coke knocked it on for Douglas to convert from close range.

“We pushed them both wide and it was a good cross from Famous before Coke laid it back,” Mikre Pace, the Boulevard assistant coach. said.

“I feel we succumbed to their type of football, trying to put all these long balls in. We didn’t play our football but as the game wore on we started to exert our dominance and play possession football and it paid off in the end.

“It’s a seriously valuable three points because it keeps everybody who was down there behind us still below us and we gain on Somerset and North Village.”

Boulevard had the better chances in the first half when Aldonte Smith forced a near-post block by Nigel Burgess just 20 seconds into the game when Boulevard launched their first raid right from the kick off.

Parish coach Phillip Burgess made a change at the start of the second half, bringing on his son, Aaron, for his nephew, Michael Albuoy and immediately Burgess looked threatening as inside the first minute he had a strong run forward towards the edge of the box before forcing a save off Deaz Chambers.

The pace of Burgess was causing the Boulevard defence some anxious moments as Ijahmon Mallory, a former Parish player, limped off injured in the 54th minute as the Blazers were forced to make a change in defence.

Parish capitalised in the 65th minute when Burgess was fouled deep on the left side and took the free kick himself, sending in a high ball that bounced over Chambers who was caught off his line as the ball dropped under the crossbar.

Parish were hanging on to their slim lead as Boulevard kept pressing forward for an equaliser, with Nigel Burgess making the save of the match in the 84th minute when he tipped Coke’s volley over the bar after a ball forward opened the Parish defence and Coke’s shot from 30 yards caught Burgess well off his line.

A minute later Boulevard finally got their reward when, from a free kick on the left side of the box, Taylor pounced after the ball was not cleared by the Parish defence and blasted his shot into the roof of the net from inside the box.

Douglas’s winner a few minutes later sent the Boulevard fans into a frenzy, the winger stealing the points with the last kick of the game. It was their third win in four games.

n Somerset Trojans dropped below Boulevard on goal difference after a 2-2 draw with North Village on Saturday night. Village led 2-0 at the interval on an own goal from Sean Brangman in the 27th minute and another by Tyrell Burgess against his former team in the 41st minute.

Leo Burgess pulled one back for Trojans in the 48th minute before Ayshaun Smith made it 2-2 in the 63rd minute.

Scorers

Hamilton Parish (Burgess 65)

Boulevard Blazers (Taylor 85, Douglas 90)

Hamilton Parish (4-4-2): N Burgess — K Cann (sub: M Clemens, 87min), E Signor, A Smith, B Edward — T Bean, Z Smith-Tucker, T Webb, P Richardson — M Albuoy (sub: A Burgess, 46). D Thompson. Substitutes not used: I Creighton, M Ingham, E Parsons, M Smith, R Tyrell, C Wade, M Walker. Booked: Edward.

Boulevard (4-3-3): D Chambers — J Crockwell, I Mallory (sub: J Williams, 54), C Trott, Z Stovell — K Smith, N Smith, D Taylor — I Coke, T Douglas, A Smith (sub: A Famous, 82). Substitutes not used: K Bean, T Butterfield, A Foggo, S Fostin, D Smith. Booked: Coke.

Referee: S Allen