Harbour View show championship material with come from behind win

By  reporter@premidictor.net

PREMIDICTOR

28/10/2007

Defending champions Harbour View showed their true championship material with a come-from-behind 3-2 win over archrivals Waterhouse in a dramatic encounter at the Harbour View Mini-Stadium where three players were red carded.

But Seba United maintained their one-point lead atop the Cash Plus Premier League table on 13 points after whipping August Town 3-1 at the UWI Bowl as round six concluded.

In a thrilling match at the Compound, Waterhouse silenced the home crowd with two first-half goals by Brian Wollaston in the seventh and 37th minutes but like true champions Harbour View fought back gallantly to snatch victory.

When central midfielder, Donald Stewart, slotted home in the 58^th minute it looked as though the home team had scored a consolation goal, but coach Lenworth Hyde pulled his goalscorer and brought on Kemeel Wolfe and the rest is history.

With 12 minutes remaining, Wolfe was fouled by goalkeeper Richard McCallum in the box and referee Courtney Campbell not only awarded a penalty, but also gave the goalkeeper his marching orders.

At the same, Waterhouse’s defender Macro McDonald and Harbour View striker Kavin Bryan, got into a tussle, exchanged blows and was duly red carded before the penalty was taken.

Defender Christopher Harvey, who scored two penalties against Sporting Central last week stepped up to level the score from the spot in the 78^th minute.

The visiting Waterhouse were down to nine men, while Harbour View had 10 and went in search of the winner and was gifted a goal on a silver platter by Waterhouse defender, Oneil Thomas.

Thomas intercepted an aimless long ball intended for Wolfe, but his weak back pass only allowed Wolfe the opportunity to place his shot wide of the advancing goalkeeper, to seal a famous win in the 86^th minute.  Last week Harbour View came from two goals down to force a 2-2 with Sporting Central and with their third win from six games they are second on 12 points and remain the only unbeaten team in the league.

At the U.W.I.  Bowl, St James outfit Seba United continued to lead the pack after their 3-1 win over home team August Town.

Seba’s Delroy Ellis opened the scoring with his fourth goal of the season in the 26^th minute before Daniel Shaw found the equaliser in the 50^th. But further goals by Kemar James and Oliver Trail in the 68^th and 90^th minutes respectively secured the three points for the leaders.

Seba, the winningest team with four wins from six games, moves to 13 points while August Town, which was suffering its third loss of the season dropped to ninth position on seven points.

Over at the Elliston Wakeland Centre, former champions Portmore United came from behind to clip the struggling home team Village United 2-1 to jump into third position on 11 points.

Fabian Dawkins gave Village a 23^rd minute lead heading past national  under-23 goalkeeper, Duwayne Kerr. But two goals in four minutes by Rudolph Austin and Kevin Deerr sealed Portmore’s third win of the season.

Austin rifled in one of his trademark freekicks in the 60^th before Deerr found the clincher in the 64^th minute to condemn Village to their fifth defeat from six games.

Village, only one of two teams without a victory are rooted to the bottom on one point, which they gained from the opening game in a 2-2 draw with Tivoli Gardens.

Boys’ Town scored their first home win of the season thrashing Sporting Central 4-1 at Collie Smith Drive to climb to fourth place on nine points.

Veteran striker Oneil “Chippy” McDonald, grabbed a hattrick in the 22^nd, 29^th and 63^rd minutes. Captain Michael Campbell completed rout in the 88^th minute for Boys’ Town’s biggest win since their 8-3 demolition of Constant Spring in 2005.

Former national player, Winston Griffiths, scored the lone goal for Sporting in the 73^rd minute as they slipped from seventh to 10^th position with six points.

At Lynch Park, Portland, the promoted St George’s stunned the visiting Arnett Gardens 2-0 courtesy of two goals by Damion Harewood in the 25^th and 43 minutes for his second and third goals of the season.

St Georges leapfrogged into sixth position on eight points with their second win of the season. Meanwhile, Arnett Gardens were suffering their first defeat slumped three places to eight on seven points.

At the Edward Seaga Stadium, home team Tivoli gardens came out comfortably 2-0 winners over Reno FC to occupy fifth place with nine points just four off the leader Seba.

Oraine Simpson who missed a penalty last week redeemed himself from the spot in the 45^th minute. National Under-23 striker, Horace Howell, sealed the win in the 65th minute.

Reno, still winless was suffering their third defeat to be second from bottom on three points.