City Boys rule Belize Bank Superleague playoffs

The City Boys rule the 2010 Belize Bank Super League football playoffs with 8 pts from 2 wins and 2 draws, after they burnt Nizhee Corozal 1-0 in Week 5 of the playoffs at the MCC gardens on Sunday afternoon.

Nizheee came to town looking for a win to clinch their berth in the finals, and took the game to city boys from the getgo, with Michael “chenko” Whittaker blasting off a missile that crashed into the crossbar.

City Boys’ Jason Young replied immediately with a forward pass to center to Whitfield Patnett, but Nizhee’s goalie Benito Moreira got up in the air up there to beat Patnett to the ball. Moreira was surely earning his keep as he intervened again to forestall another aerial attack, this time by Jason Young, but Moriera landed badly and took a few minutes to recover before he could continue.

Andrew Allen made a magnificent effort penetrating up the left sideline all the way to the goal area, but it was there Allen semed to run out of gas, Allen’s shot drained harmlessly over the goal line outside the sticks, an the ball game was still a nil-zip draw at the half.

Nizhee got another break to impress the scoreboard in the 2^nd half, but the free kick executed by team captain Antonio Castillo sailed over the crossbar.

Dalton “Pollo” Cayetano made no such mistake when Whitfield Patnett centered into the goal area, and by Tyrone “T-Bone” Muschamp shunted the ball over to Cayetano whose right away right foot shot put the ball into the back of the net for the winning goal in the 59^th minute of play.

The tenacious defense of Antonio Castillo, Kenny Canul, Alberto Yam and Andrew Allen allowed the City boys’ no more goals, but Sergio Villanueva and Russell Casanova who had entered the ball game in the 2^nd made no impression on the City Boys’ defenders Mark Grant, Shawn Thurton, Tyrone Linares and Joseph Mohamed Ali, who locked up shop to secure the 1-0 win.

Nizhee’s Darnell Mossiah, Randy Casanova, Danny Yam, Eduardo “Gigante” Perez and Christian Pena kept trying until the final whistle but to no avail.

The Placencia Assassins are also still in the running for a berth in the championship finals after a 2-1 win over Hattieville at the Michael Ashcroft Stadium on Saturday night. Assasssins’ Jason Westby and Gary Young delighted the home town fans with goals, and only Jarret Davis goty a consolation goal for Hattieville, who are no effectively out of the running for a playoff berth.

With 7 pts, Placencia needs to win when they visit at the Ricalde Stadium on Sunday. Nizhee won their last encounter 2-1, and only need a draw to advance.

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