De­fence Force dropped their first points of the sea­son in Group Two of the T&T Pre­mier Foot­ball League Tier II af­ter bat­tling to a 1-1 draw at T&T De­fence Force Re­serves Ground, Mac­queripe, on Sun­day (March 23) night.

Go­ing in­to the match, the Army/Coast Guard com­bi­na­tion had won sev­en match­es on the trot from as many out­ings and were favoured to add to their tal­ly.

How­ev­er, vis­i­tors Union Hall were out to play spoil­ers and stunned the home crowd when Ky­ron Williams fired in the go-ahead item as ear­ly as the sev­enth minute for a 1-0 lead, but that joy was short-lived as Josi­ah Su­perville equalised for De­fence Force in the 20th minute as both teams went in­to the half-time in­ter­val lev­el.

In the sec­ond half, both De­fence Force and Union Hall tried for the de­ci­sive strike to se­cure all three points, but in the end the match end­ed in an en­ter­tain­ing draw, with the vis­i­tors hav­ing the ho­n­our of end­ing the host’s 100 per cent win­ning record.

De­spite the drawn re­sult, De­fence Force re­mained top of Group Two with 22 points from eight match­es, six more than Cen­tral Soc­cer World, who edged third-placed Guaya Unit­ed 2-1 on Sat­ur­day.

In Sun­day’s oth­er match at St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege Ground, in West­moor­ings, host Pe­tit Val­ley/Diego Mar­tin Unit­ed picked up their first win of the cam­paign, 2-0 over Evo­lu­tion FC, with a goal each from Jae­den Bobb in the eighth minute and for­mer na­tion­al youth play­er Mic­ah Lewis in the 79th.

On Sat­ur­day in Group II, Cen­tral Soc­cer World got a de­ci­sive item from An­dre Nicholas in the 78th minute, a penal­ty kick to edge host Guaya Unit­ed 2-1 at the Guayagua­yare Recre­ation Ground.

Ephraim Brown fired the vis­i­tors ahead in the 29th minute, but four min­utes be­fore the half-time in­ter­val, Ke­ston Fron­tin drew Guaya Unit­ed lev­el, on­ly for Nicholas to con­vert the sec­ond-half penal­ty to se­cure all three points for his team while Matu­ra Re­Unit­ed and San Fer­nan­do Gi­ants were locked at 1-1 mid­way in­to the sec­ond half when the match was brought to a halt af­ter a fra­cas en­sued be­tween both teams, fol­lowed by sup­port­ers in­volve­ment.

In Group I, at the Ken Cooke Ground, St James Po­lice Bar­racks, Long Cir­cu­lar Road, Po­lice FC II got goals from four dif­fer­ent play­ers to whip ta­ble lead­ers Mal­abar Young Stars 4-1.

The quar­tet of Akeil Thomas, Jaleel Per­ry, Syl­van Selvon, and Clint Hospedales were all on tar­get for the Law­men, who climbed to 13 points from five match­es, the same as neigh­bours Queen’s Park Crick­et Club in the third and fourth spots, re­spec­tive­ly, on the stand­ings, while Mal­abar Young Stars stayed on 16 points at the top from sev­en match­es, with the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T Pa­tri­ots sec­ond with 14 points.

Else­where, UTT got a lone goal from Malachi Hazel in the 91st minute to de­feat reign­ing cham­pi­on Harlem Strik­ers 1-0 at An­cil El­cock Ground, Ca­roni, while Joshua Ma­son, Sean De Sil­va and Josi­mar Bel­grave got a goal each for Queen’s Park Crick­et Club in a 3-0 win over Bethel Unit­ed at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um, Mal­abar.

T&T PFL Tier II re­sults

Sun­day

Group II

Pe­tit Val­ley/Diego Mar­tin Unit­ed 2 (Jae­den Bobb 8th, Mic­ah Lewis 79th) vs Evo­lu­tion FC 0

De­fence Force 1 (Josi­ah Su­perville 20th) vs AL Union Hall 1 (Ky­ron Williams 9th)

Sat­ur­day

Group I

T&T Po­lice FC 4 (Akeil Thomas, Jaleel Per­ry, Syl­van Selvon, Clint Hospedales) vs Mal­abar Young Stars 1 (Jorel Grant)

QPCC 3 (Joshua Ma­son 19th, Sean De Sil­va 21st pen, Josi­mar Bel­grave 88th) vs Bethel SC 0

UTT Pa­tri­ots 1 (Malachi Hazel 90+1) vs Harlem Strik­ers 0

Group II

AIA Ea­gles FC 2 (Randy Brit­to 17th, Ja­nari Williams 90+5) vs Club San­do FC II 1 (Keanu More­an 13th)

Cen­tral Soc­cer World 2 (Ephraim Brown 29th, An­dre Nicholas 78th pen) vs Guaya Unit­ed 1 (Ke­ston Fron­tin 41st)

Matu­ra Re­Unit­ed 1 vs San Fer­nan­do Gi­ants 1 - match aban­doned in sec­ond-half.

Cur­rent Tier II stand­ings

Group I:

Pos Teams P W L D F A GD Pts

1 Mal­abar Youngstars 7 5 1 1 12 10 2 16

2 UTT Pa­tri­ots 7 4 1 2 14 5 9 14

3 T&T Po­lice FC 5 4 0 1 13 3 10 13

4 QPCC FC 5 4 0 1 12 2 10 13

5 Carn­bee/Mt.Pleas­ant 4 3 1 0 9 4 5 9

6 Harlem Strik­ers 7 2 4 1 15 9 6 7

7 Bethel SC 5 1 2 2 4 8 -4 5

8 Sideys SC 5 1 3 1 8 10 -2 4

9 Prison Ser­vice Ig­nite 7 1 6 0 6 12 -6 3

10 RSSR FC 5 1 4 0 2 10 -8 3

11 Misc Laven­tille Utd 5 0 5 0 5 27 -22 0

Group II:

1 De­fence Force FC 8 7 0 1 22 4 18 22

2 CSW FC 8 5 2 1 11 7 4 16

3 Guaya Unit­ed 7 3 3 1 12 11 1 10

4 AIA Ea­gles FC 8 2 2 4 7 9 -2 10

5 San F’do Gi­ants 7 2 2 3 9 9 0 9

6 Union Hall Utd 7 2 2 3 6 7 -1 9

7 Matu­ra Re­unit­ed 6 2 2 2 13 9 4 8

8 Club San­do 8 1 4 3 7 13 -6 6

9 PVDM Utd 8 1 4 3 8 16 -8 6

10 Evo­lu­tion FC 7 1 5 1 4 14 -10 4