Tempete beat Alpha 2-0

SAINT-MARC, Haiti, CMC – Haiti’s Tempete used their home advantage and thumped Guyana’s Alpha United 2-0 in their second-leg Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Club Championship first round match on Sunday.

Tempete, who drew 1-1 with the Guyanese in Georgetown last month, got goals from national player Eliphene Cadet in the 12th minute and Vaniel Sirin in the 71st, to win the series 3-1 on aggregate and advance to the second round against Antigua’s Greenbay Hoppers on April 13 and 20.

Besides Tempete-Greenbay, Inter Mongoe Tapoe of Suriname will face San Juan Jabloteh of Puerto Rico, which had a bye into the second round, and W Connection of Trinidad will take on SA Cavaly of Haiti.

The second-round winners will advance to single-game semifinal series along with the Puerto Rico Islanders on May 15 in Trinidad, with the final and third-place game in Trinidad two days later.

The CFU Club Champions Cup will qualify three teams for next season’s CONCACAF Champions League.