Goalkeeping blunders aid Vergenoengen Secondary

Ryan Hackett of Chase Academy (white/right) trying to maintain possession of the ball while being challenged by an opposing player during his team’s opening fixture in the Digicel Schools Football Championship at the Ministry of Education ground yesterday.

Vergenoegen Secondary overcame a one goal deficit compliments of poor goalkeeping to defeat Leonora Technical Institute (LTI) 3-1 when the Digicel Schools Football Championship continued yesterday at the Leonora Sports Facility.

Surrendering the lead in the sixth minute to a curling Jamal Haynes free-kick, the visitors grabbed the equaliser in the 60th minute as goalkeeper Jamaine Cumberbatch scored under fortuitous circumstances.

Awarded a spot-kick on the right side of the field, Cumberbatch unleashed a tame right foot shot