Waterhouse FC took advantage of the absence of defending champions Barbican FC to move to the top of Group A in the Sherwin Williams Women’s League on Wednesday when they carved out a narrow 1-0 win over Rangers FC at the St. Mary Sports Complex.
The win takes them to 6 points from two games, the same as Arnett Gardens who eased past Olympic Gardens 3-0 in another Group A game. Former champions Portmore Strikers inflicted a 1-0 defeat on Trelawny Women’s FC, their second such loss of the season at the Racing Oval.
Waterhouse travelled to St. Mary with the hopes of leapfrogging the champions, but found the going rough against a Rangers team that endured a baptism of fire just four days before in their first ever game in the competition. It took a Shanell Spence strike two minutes before the half time break to separate the teams and eventually earn the visitors all three points.
Over at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex, the home team continued to show that they mean business this season when they produced an almost effortless display to get by Olympic Gardens. Asheina Nelson scored in the 1st minute of play to rock the visitors who never recovered and succumbed to two other goals from Peta Gay Smith in the 9th and Shantel Bailey in the 15th minutes. The first half blitz was enough to knock the stuffing out of Olympic Gardens who were playing first game of the season, having “rested” on the opening day.
Portmore Strikers found the comforts of home much to their liking after being hammered 5-0 on the opening day. The new look team that missed last season, owed their three points to Shaunte Gordon who got the lone goal of the contest five minutes from time.
Waterhouse now leads the group on goal difference ahead of Arnett Gardens having scored 6 goals compared to the “Junglists” 4. Neither team has conceded a goal so far in the competition.
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