Women’s football in the Cayman Islands is on the up, the level of play in the domestic league is definitely moving in the right direction and the Cayman Islands women’s national programme is gaining respect in the Caribbean. On Saturday there were two very entertaining matches as Future took on Elite Sports Club and Sunset entertained Scholars International.
SunSet currently sit top of the Women’s League after an impressive 3-0 win over Scholars with all goals coming in the first half. Mya Romilowych got Sunset off the mark, Amanda Sidhu’s superb strike put Sunset two up before great combination play from Charlotte Home and Romilowych set up Gisela Gamba who completed the scoring. Sunset manager Alen Purvis said: “It’s a great start but it is early days, we have new players who are still settling in to the team and although we play some nice football in patches we still need to be more consistent with our passing game.”
Elite started their campaign with an impressive 4-1 win over Future. Elite currently have 11 national team players in their squad, ten of them making their first domestic league appearance on Saturday. Head coach Martha Godet has a pool of talent to choose from this upcoming season as Elite women look to emulate their male counterparts and become league champions,
Coach Godet said: “We welcome our supporters, parents, friends and family to come out and support the women’s games, to see their skills they each have playing the beautiful game of football.” Elite SC and Cayman Islands International midfielder Courtisha Ebanks got the scoring underway in the first half smashing home a free kick from outside the box. Future reacted well to going down a goal and created a handful of half chances as the first half came to an end.
The second half saw the entrance of Shanelle Fredrick, 15, who replaced Nikki Ebanks up front to partner fellow international striker Shanice Monteith.
Frederick’s entry injected energy into the attacking play of Elite as she kept the Future backline on their heels. Frederick’s hard work was rewarded early in the second half as she intercepted a misplaced pass by Future and created a goal out of nothing and then scored a second.
The introduction of Kimberly Rivers to Future’s attack offered them more options going forward but it was Elite’s Shanelle Frederick who caused more havoc for Future’s defence as she broke down their resistance again in the 80th minute taking on two defenders before her shot was rebounded into the path of Chelsea Greene who couldn’t miss.
Future never gave up and continued to attack, Brittni Ebanks; another Cayman international, got a late consolation goal in the 87th minute.
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