A hat-trick from substitute Aaliyah Prince and double strikes from Natasha St Louis, who also came on as a substitute, and Karyn Forbes, guided T&T's Women to an 8-1 victory over Grenada last night in the Caribbean Football Union (CFU) Challenge Series at the Ato Boldon Stadium in Balmain, Couva.
The visitors were lucky not to concede a dozen more goals as the St Louis siblings, Natasha and skipper Tasha, along with Shinelle Arjoon were guilty of missing many clear chances. Following on an impressive 7-0 win over Suriname in their first game on Wednesday night, T&T women could have taken the advantage as early as the 10th minute when defender Forbes was picked out by St Louis (Tasha) and cannoned her shot against the crossbar.
But Forbes got the opener two minutes later, when she curled the ball past goalkeeper Connie John from a left side corner.
Four minutes later, Kristal Julien levelled the scores from a defensive blunder. Ayanna Russell pass was intercepted and Julien skilfully chipped the loose ball inside the net in the 16th. The teams when into the break evenly matched.
T&T exploded in the second half with St Louis heading in a cross from Arjoon in the 46th, and Liana Hinds galloping onto a through ball beat the goalie in the 63rd minute.
Two minutes later, Prince got her first goal, weaving her way through the defence to beat the Grenadian goalie with a shot at the bottom left corner.
Soon after St Louis added another, heading in Arjoon's left side cross in the 69th. Prince added two other goals in the 79th and 84th minutes, both using her speed to get clear of her challengers.
Forbes caught the goalie napping with a long-range shot from the left that went through her grasp to complete the rout.
In the first match, Guyana and Suriname played to a 2-2 draw.
