U11 - West Bay vs Catholic

By Tara Bush
Caymanian Compass

West Bay Primary routed St. Ignatius Prep 9-0 in the U-11 Inter-Primary School league.
The match that took place at the St. Ignatius field on Saturday saw Lorenzo Brown, who was celebrating his 10th birthday score five goals.

Ignatius, who were the runners-up in last year's league, are in the process of rebuilding. West Bay on the other hand have been together for a couple of years and it showed in their free-flowing style of play. Plus the Bayers have two U-12 national players on their squad - Brown and James Ebanks.

Bayer's Dan Kelly got the ball rolling in the 5th minute when he dribbled through the right flank. Kelly fi-nessed his way around Catholic's right back and buried the ball into the back of the net. Two minutes later James Ebanks repeated in identical form. However, Ebanks' ball had a bit more pace and it hit the goal post, ricocheting into the net.
The score was now 2-0 in the seventh minute. Catholic tried getting into the game with Thomas Cowen and Gordon Forbes making an effort to plug their leaky right side, but the Bayers just changed tactics.

Nevertheless, Catholic played smart ball as well catching the Bayers offside a number of times.

Nothing St. Ignatius did though could hold West Bay back for too long. In the 20th minute Ebanks floated the ball into the right pigeonhole. Seeing they owned the game, West Bay's coach Mr. Rhuel Smyth changed Brown's position from midfield to striker and within minutes Brown was racking up goals. Brown danced his way down the left side and placed the ball by Catholic's keeper Alex Mitchell in the 25th minute. Two minutes later, Brown slipped the ball across the goal line again bringing the score to 5-0 at half-time.

The second half was played in the wet - sometimes a little drizzle sometimes heavy rain - but nothing doused the Bayers' quest for victory. Brown scored a hat-trick with machine-gun precision rat-tactics, one right after the other.

Then Kelly poured the ball in the net in the closing minutes of the game, taking the scoreline to 9-0.

West Bay's U-9 team also defeated St. Ignatius 1-0 earlier at the same venue.