Cougars United Football Club of New Amsterdam will seek a semi-final place in the Berbice Football Association (BFA) organized Cheddi and Janet Jagan Memorial football competition today.
They will oppose Monedderlust in a quarter-final fixture of the competition from 2pm at the Blairmont Community Centre Ground.
In the feature game, Rosigonl United and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) will clash from 4pm in a National Super League encounter.
Last weekend, Pistons United and Cougars United won their respective encounters at the Burham Park Playfield.
Pistons United defeated Mahaica Determinators 2 – 1 in a tough feature encounter to make it into the semi-final round while Cougars relentlessly dominated Strike Force United 9 – 0.
In the Cougars/Strike Force match, a stunning six goal blitz from Cougars top striker, Winston Benjamin, a double from Horace Roach and one from Alvin Reynolds saw the hapless Strike Force exiting the tournament with a thrashing. They might have been pondering what force had hit them when six of the nine goals were scored in the first half of the encounter that ran for 35 minutes.
Benjamin’s goals came in the 10th, 27th, 45th, 48th, 49th and 58th minutes, while Roache record a first half double scoring in the 17th and 31st minutes.
Reynolds accounted for the other goal in the 18th minute.
In the second match, Pistons United, with goals from Paul Hector in the 27th, and Marty Romney 48th minutes, were rewarded with a 2 – 1 victory over a game Mahaica Determinators team who played fiercely and competitively but were outgunned by their more determined opponents.
Determinators’ Julian Hart scored their consolation goal in the 64th minute.
Earlier, Determinators’ Sherwin Hermanstine was given marching orders by referee Virgil Watts in the 38th minute for violent conduct while Rishawn Pilgrim of Pistons United was expelled by the said official after unsportsmanlike conduct in the 22nd and 44th minutes.
