FC Belize & Hankook Verdes win BPFL football

FC Belize and Hankook Verdes each enjoyed wins in mid-week games of the Caribbean Motors Cup football competition organized by the Belize Premier Football League, which were played to avoid a conflict on the weekend with the Belize national team’s international match with Nicaragua in the UNCAF Under-20 competition, held at the FIFA goal project field in Belmopan on Sunday.

Daniel Jimenez had led Hankook Verdes to a 3-0 victory over BRC Blaze at the Isidoro Beaton Stadium in Belmopan on Wednesday in the sixth week of the tournament. Some 32 minutes of play had passed when Jimenez struck the winning goal and he added a second goal to the tally three minutes before intermission.

BRC Blaze tried to reduce the deficit in the second half, but only succeeded in earning ire with their over-enthusiastic defense giving up a penalty late in the ball game and Marlon “Matador” Meza converted for the 3-0 win.

In Belize City Wednesday night, F.C. Belize struggled to salvage a 1-1 draw with Shanaiah Corozal out of the jaws of defeat. The FC Belize forwards made little impression on the visitors’ defense in the first half and it was still a scoreless draw at intermission.

Darwin Innis gave the visitors the lead when he converted a penalty some 20 minutes into the second half. The city boys battled for the remainder of regulation time without a goal, and were staring into the jaws of defeat when Delwin Jones delivered the equalizer in injury time.

The other two matches of the sixth week were re-scheduled for Tuesday, March 23, with Paradise/Freedom Fighters hosting the Belize Defence Force at the Toledo Union Field and the San Pedro Sea Dogs taking on George Town Ibayani at the Ambergris Stadium, but these games have been further postponed to a later date.

The competition continues on Sunday afternoon when BRC Blaze hosts the Belize Defence Force at the FFB Field in Belmopan, while the Paradise /Freedom Fighters take a boat ride to visit the San Pedro Sea Dogs at the Ambergris Stadium. The Hankook Verdes will await Shanaiah Corozal at the Norman Broaster Stadium, and F.C. Belize takes on George Town Ibayani at the M.C.C. grounds.

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