The final four in the inaugural June Madness Futsal championship will be known on Saturday night (June 21) when the quarter-finals are contested at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall.
A total of 48 teams commenced action a few weeks ago and now it’s down to the business-end of the championship.
Following the conclusion of the Round-of-16 on Thursday night, the final four teams inked their names in the win column to cement the match-ups that will certainly see enthralling battles with the respective winners booking their places in semi-finals.
Back Circle ‘A Simeon Moore’s (#12) opening goal set the platform for their huge win over Festival City
Back Circle ‘A’ displayed ripping form in downing Festival City and have earned a date with Z Tekk, who upstaged Linden All Stars in an epic clash.
Gold Is Money will throw all on the line when they come up against the giant slayers, Bomb Squad, who took down the mighty Bent Street ‘A’ to reach this stage.
National champions, Sparta Boss have not been as clinical as they can be and have eased into this round having scored just six goals; they will take on North East in what is anticipated to be a fierce battle.
The team that many feel will go all the way this time around and which have been very clinical in both their matches so far, Road Warriors of Brazil will have to get past Bent Street ‘B’ in what will be a huge game for the local side.
Road Warriors’ Luis Da Silva’s tally of eight goals so far is the most by any and he will certainly be aiming to build on this.
He will have solid support from Thalyston Pinheiro and Joao De Souza with four and three goals respectvely, to their credit.
Road Warriors have scored a total of 23 goals in their two matches to date, a phenomenal average of 11.5 goals per game.
Bent Street ‘B’ will turn to Lennox Cort (four goals) to lead their charge and will hope that the likes of Samuel Garnett step it up along with Tyric McAllister and Randy Roberts.
Lady Kamaima’s Glengy Lewis (on ball) and Sandra Johnson (#7) combined for six of their eight goals.
The two female matches on Saturday night will see Iconic Strikers taking on Tucville Terrorist’s from 20:00h, followed by Avacado Ballers against Pouderoyen.
The six-team female competition is being played using the round-robin format with the top four moving into the semi-finals.
Following are the full results from the most recent games:
Female round-robin (20 minute matches)
Iconic Ballers 1 (Shanic Thornhill 13’) vs The Lioness 0
Lady Kanaimas 8 (Sandra Johnson 13s, 2’, 9’ and 17’, Glendy Lewis 4’ and 20’, Glengy Lewis 6’ and 16’) vs Avacado Ballers 1 (Mia 15’)
Male Round-of-16
Z Tekk 5 (Tyrice Dennis 4’ and 13’, Gerry Burnette 8’ and 12’, David George 20’) vs Ballers United 3 (Ray Roderick 35s and Tyrone Delph 9’ and 15’)
North East 2 (Lennox Cort 2’ and Akil Plass 19’) vs Linden All Stars 1 (Marcus Tudor 12’)
Back Circle ‘A’ 8 (Simeon Moore 5’, Darren Benjamin 7’ and 24’YB, Chris Macey 22’, Cecil Jackman 26’, Fabian Abrams 28’ and Azariel Davis 30’) vs Festival City 0
Sparta Boss 2 (Kelsey Benjamin 9’ and Curtez Kellman 21’) vs Back Circle ‘B’ 0
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