Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Sunday | January 4, 2009
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August Town, JDF sitting pretty
Anthony Foster, Gleaner Writer

August Town and Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) extended their advantage atop the Claro/Kingston and St Andrew Football Association Super League with wins in yesterday's fourth round of matches.

At Bull Pen, August Town, with goals from Nicholas McCreath (21st) and Mark Grant (87th) clipped Bull Bay 2-1, while Robert Wright's 19th minute strike gave JDF a 1-0 win over Liguanea at Jamaica College.

The winners moved to 12 points, three more than Constant Spring and Cavalier, who defeated Mountain View and Maverley/Hughenden 2-0 and 3-2, respectively.

Locksley Thompson (5th), Oniel Morrison (21st) and Jermaine Rowe (62nd) scored for Santos, while Fabian Swaby (76th) and Marlon Brady (90th) got the goals for Maverley/Hughenden.

Nigel Reid (43rd) and Gregory Walters (45th) were on target for Constant Spring at Excelsior playing field.

At Bell/Chung Stadium, Santos, behind a double strike from Fabian Nethersole (45th & 49th), defeated Duhaney 2-1.

In the day's feature at Butter Cup Park, Real Mona and Police National played to a dull 0-0 draw.

Real Mona's coach, Peter Moses, said his team should have won the contest.

"I am not satisfied with a 0-0 draw," said Moses.

"Their (Police National) coach came by and said we got 19 chances ... I don't know if we got as many as 19, but I know we should have scored three or four in the first half," added Moses. "I am satisfied with our domination of the game, but as you know, domination doesn't give you any points.

disappointed

"So I am a bit disappointed that we did not score, but I would have been more disappointed, if we had lost ... . so I guess we will take the draw and move to the next game."

Police National's coach Patrick Watson agreed that his team was outplayed in the first half, but said they controlled the second.

"Poor first half, we gave up the first half to Mona," he noted. "We rallied with a good performance in the second half, but failed to convert our chances."

Damion Virgo missed an easy chance for Police National in the dying moments of the game. He received a defence-splitting pass from Herbert Smith, but after dribbling into the box he shot high and wide.

At the end, Watson was satisfied with the point. "Away from home, a point is always good." he said.

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