Defending Champs Boys' Town Rally For Win

Boys' Town's Fabian Francis (centre) challenges Humble Lions'
Kenny Lee (right) for the ball, while Jermaine Christian looks on anxiously,
during their Flow Cup knockout encounter yesterday at Collie Smith
Drive. Boys' Town won 4-3 on penalties.

Two-time defending Flow Cup KO champions, Boys' Town, had to come from behind before eventually emerging 4-3 winners, on penalties, over last year's beaten finalists, Humble Lions, at Collie Smith Drive yesterday, after both teams were locked at one-all subsequent to the playing of full and extra time.

Denzil Watson (44th) gave Humble Lions the lead against his hometown club, before Michael Campbell pulled Boys' Town level from the penalty spot to send the game into extra-time, and eventually a penalty shoot-out.

Humble Lions, who sit at the bottom of the standings in the Premier League, looked the superior team against their much more accomplished counterparts and started out the game in the more attacking vein.

The Clarendon-based team was rewarded for their approach a minute before the half-time interval when former Boys' Town striker Denzil Watson shook off Asrick Samuels before getting off an innocuous-looking shot, which Porter allowed to sneak under his body.

Goal waved off

Shane Edwards thought he had pulled Boys' Town level a minute after coming on in the 77th minute, when he headed home from close range. The goal was, however, waved off as Richard Clarke was deemed to have handled the ball before it reached Edwards.

The Boys' Town supporters must have thought their team was destined to be knocked out after Anthony Bennett was showed a red card in the 83rd minute for elbowing Humble Lions' Tyrone Sawyers.

The Red Brigade were, however, thrown a lifeline in stoppage time when they were awarded a penalty after Oneil Thompson was deemed to have been fouled in the area by Mark Miller. Boys' Town's captain, Michael Campbell, easily dispatched the resulting spot kick to even up the score.

The teams did not offer much in extra time, as they both seemed to have settled for their fate being decided from the penalty spot. Humble Lions' keeper, Louden, saved Campbell's first attempt, but Porter, Renae Lloyd, Daemion Benjamin and Oneil Thompson converted their kicks to give Boys' Town the win. Peter Brown, Ricardo Campbell and Tyrone Sawyers dispatched their kicks for the Lions, but Kirk Duckworth and Julien Nugent failed to even hit the target with their efforts.

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