By George Alleyne
Having settled their pay
dispute with management,
Jamaica’s Reggae Girlz appear
to have turned their fury into
skilled football, demolishing all
in their way in the eliminator
matches for the Olympic
Qualifying Championship next
year.
Jamaica, Haiti and St. Kitts
and Nevis emerged as the top
teams out of 16 in the Caribbean
Zone that have been
contesting, since Sept. 30 to
Oct. 08, for three spots in the
Championship where they will
take on sides from Central and
North America for the regional
title.
Only the Championship winner
and runner-up will go on
to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The 16 Caribbean zone
teams were split into three
groups for matches played
in Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and
Trinidad and Tobago.
Jamaica’s path of devastation
was run through Group B.
The Girlz tore their way
through the group to make it to
the Championship by handing
Cuba a 12 – 1 drubbing; Barbados
a 7 - 0 whipping; St Lucia
a 11 - 0 cut tail; and US Virgin
Islands 7 – 0 slamming.
In the Cuba encounter, the
first game for the both teams,
Cheyna Matthews scored four
times for Jamaica and Tiffany
Cameron two.
St. Kitts and Nevis’ girls,
who also made into next year’s
Championship, went by a modest
performance compared to
the Girlz’ rampage. In Group A,
St. Kitts drew 0-0 with Dominica;
drubbed Aruba 6 – 1;
slammed Trinidad and Tobago
4 -1; and Antigua 10 – 1.
Haiti was also dominant in
Group C — the smallest set
owing to late withdrawals of
Dominica and Grenada — and
emerged at the top to become
the third Caribbean team qualifying
for the Championship by
swamping Suriname 10 -0; and
Puerto Rico 2 - 1
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