Power outage disrupts National Futsal Championship

At 22:00h on the dot, a power outage put paid to any further action at the start of the fourth of five games in the Round-of-32 on Thursday night when the One Guyana/Kashif and Shanghai Organisation year-end football championship continued.

Back Circle was large and in charge of the action between themselves and Vryheid’s Lust as they were 2-0 up and looking very ominous in their play against the East Coast side in the tournament backed by the Government of Guyana.

Early goals from Cecil Jackman (first) and Darren Benjamin one minute later were setting the foundation for a solid win.

The organisers took the decision to call it a night since there was no certainty of when the power would have been restored. The game will continue from the point it stopped, two minutes into the first half, tonight at 18:30h.

The other game that was scheduled for Thursday night between Spainard and Bent will then follow before the scheduled matches for Saturday and they are California Square vs Back Circle ‘B’, Gold Is Money vs Touches, Team Cruel vs Paradise Invaders, North Ruimveldt vs Ballers United, Albouystown Ballers vs Agricola Ballers, and Victoria Eagles vs Road Warriors.

Three Round-of-32 matches were completed on Thursday night with Stabroek ‘B’ trouncing Show Stoppers, 7-0 on account of goals from Jamal Cozier (2nd, 6th, 11th, 20th), Nikolai Andrews (7th, 24th) and Lionel Holder in the 26th minute.

In a nail-biting showdown, Espanyol edged Laing Avenue 3-2. Laing Avenue drew first blood in the 5th minute when Prince Nero found the back of the nets.

Espanyol crew level in the 9th minute on account of Darwuin’s effort and then jumped to a 3-1 advantage by the 22nd minute through ripping goals from Esteben Hernandez (15th) and Feliz Nunez (22nd).

Laing Avenue fought valiantly to chip away at the Spanish team’s advantage, but only succeeded in reducing it by one when with three minutes to the final whistle, Isiah Scott found the back of the nets.

Thursday night’s action opened with a solid 4-1 triumph for Timehri Warriors against Kitty Hustlers.

Goals took some time to come by with the first half seeing a total drought. The deadlock was finally broken in the 18th minute when Warriors’ Doniel Moshette scored.

Kitty Hustlers leveled the score in the 22nd minute with a Darren Osborne strike but three unanswered goals from Timehri Warriors through Shamar Samuels (22nd), Own Goal (29th) and Deric Bethune in the 30th minute, sealed their passage into the round of 16 along with Espanyol and Stabroek ‘B’

Ther three teams have also qualified for the Guyana Energy Conference and Chain Supply Futsal Championship in February of 2025 and will all receive a complete set of uniforms compliments of the One Guyana/Kashif and Shanghai National Futsal Championship.