Bermuda U/17 Footballers Beat Bahamas 5-1

Bermuda’s under/17 World Cup qualifying team got off to an excellent start in their two leg series against host country Bahamas, earning a very impressive 5-1 victory at the game today [July 23] which was played at the Baillou Hill Sporting Complex in the Bahamas.

Thanks to Chikosi Basden, Bermuda opened their account in the 13th minute of play, and then 18 minutes later followed up again in the 31st minute of the first half to take a 2-1 lead at half

The onslaught continued in the second half with goals coming from Tre Ming, in the 65th minute, then 8 minutes later in the 73rd minute of play Jair Minors found the back of the net, and the 84th minute of play, Zeiko Lewis put the game out of reach to capture the very convincing 5-1 victory for Bermuda.

The squad will now have tomorrow [July 23] off, however Head Coach, Devarr Boyles will be fine tuning his players during rest day. The second and final two leg series will be played Sunday, July 25th, in Bahamas. This time, Bermuda will be the home team, while Bahamas will be the visitors. The winner from this stage will go on and compete in the quarterfinal round matches in Trinidad & Tobago in August of 2010.

The selected 20 players who will represent the team during this tournament are as follows:

1.Dale Eve
2. Dakai Grant
3. Zeon Robinson
4. Zeiko Lewis
5. Jonte Smith
6. Shakeem Albouy
7. Jair Minors
8. Tre Ming
9. Zeiko Lewis
10. Demetre Daniels
11. William White
12. Mauriq Hill
13. Jevon Swan
14. Dimitri Frias
15. Chikosi Basden
16. Shachkeil Burrows
17. Quintonio Lema
18. Kamua Leverock
19. Ryan Hassell
20. Shahkai Trott

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