Captain Kennya “Yaya” Cordner scored nine goals as T&T’s Soca Princesses clobbered Bermuda 14-1 in their second match of the preliminary round of the Women’s Caribbean Zone Group B 2012 Olympic football tournament yesterday. Karyn Forbes added a hat-trick while Jo-Marie Lewis and Janelle Mc Gee chipped in with a goal each for T&T at the Estadio Panamericano Stadium, Dominican Republic, to follow up Tuesday’s 5-1 whipping of Bermuda at the same venue. The win carried T&T to maximum six points from two matches, three ahead of hosts Dominican Republic which came up against Bermuda in yesterday’s late match. The round-robin group will end tomorrow with Bermuda facing Dominica at 2 pm, followed by T&T against the host in what is expected to be the group decider. At the end of the series, the winner will advance to the Concacaf Final Round qualification round to be held in Canada from January 19 -29, 2012.
Last week, Haiti won the Group A ahead of Cuba on goal-difference after both teams ended with seven points in their round-robin series which also included Suriname and host Aruba. The Haitians ended with a plus-12 goal difference in its three matches, while Cuba had a plus-three. The best runner-up from the two CFU groups will join the other teams in Canada from which two teams will qualify for next year’s Olympic Games in London. Already, Canada, the reigning Concacaf women’s champion, USA, Mexico have secured Concacaf Final Round spots while the two from Central America are still to be decided as well.
Team TTO
Trinidad and Tobago Olympic Committee