THE Trinidad and Tobago senior women’s footballers will only need a draw in their final Group F match against Guyana on Tuesday to advance to the next phase of the 2023 FIFA World Cup qualification campaign after thrashing Turks and Caicos 13-0, on Saturday.
The match was played at the TCIFA National Academy in Providenciales, Turks and Caicos.
Chelcy Ralph led the way with a hat-trick.
Ralph opened the scoring for T&T in the sixth minute, before the experienced Lauryn Hutchinson made it 2-0 in the 14th minute.
Ralph scored her second goal in the 17th minute to give T&T a comfortable 3-0 lead.
T&T skipper Karyn Forbes got on the score sheet in the 33rd minute and Cecily Stoute made it 5-0 in the 35th.
A goal by Liana Hinds (41st) and another by Forbes (45th) gave T&T a commanding 7-0 advantage at halftime.
The goals kept flowing for T&T in the second half as Maya Matouk found the back of the net in the 49th minute. Matouk was on target again in the 65th minute.
T&T were relentless as Raenah Campbell converted a penalty in the 72nd minute and national Under-20 player Maria-Frances Serrant made it 11-0 in the 76th.
Ralph completed her hat-trick in the 82nd minute and Campbell grabbed her second goal and rounded off the scoring in the 86th minute.
T&T will play Guyana at Dwight Yorke Stadium in Bacolet on Tuesday, from 6 pm.
T&T will only need a draw to top Group F and advance to the next phase of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup qualification campaign.
The World Cup will be held in Australia and New Zealand.
(Teams)
Trinidad and Tobago: 22.K’lil Keshwar (GK), 5.Shaunalee Govia, 2.Chelsi Jadoo (3.Shani Nakhid-Schuster 83), 6.Shadi Cecily Stoute, 7.Liana Hinds (19.Sarah De Gannes 75), 20.Lauryn Hutchinson, 14.Karyn Forbes (captain) (16.Cayla Mc Farlane 60), 12.Chelcy Ralph, 17.Maya Matouk (18.Maria-Frances Serrant 75), 15.Kedie Johnson (23.Aaliyah Trim 61), 11.Raenah Campbell,
Unused substitutes: 1.Kimika Forbes (GK), 21.Tenesha Palmer (GK), 8.Victoria Swift, 4.Rhea Belgrave, 9.Amaya Ellis, 10.Asha James.
Coach: Kenwyne Jones.
Turks and Caicos Islands: 13.Crystal Jean Baptiste (GK); 3.Jodee Harvey, 6.Patrice Senior (captain), 7.Irener Moline, 19.Chanile Butterfield, 11.Rosaria Talbot (15.Carlleah Lewis 46), 17.Vanessa Joseph (16.Gabriela Bruton 46), 18.Scateline Gedeon Dixon, 2.Kelmari Simons (4.Callie Hall 46), 10.Kadine Dephin, 9.Mikayla Marcellus,
Unused substitutes: 1.Brianna Burton (GK), 5.Syniah Forbes Chambers, 8.Alivia Brooks, 14.Kayley Hall, 21.Krysann Williams, 23.Olivia Park.
Coach: Yunelsis Rodriguez Baez.
Concacaf W Championship qualifiers results (Group F)
(9 April)
Turks & Caicos Islands 0, Trinidad and Tobago 13 (Chelcy Ralph 6, 17, 82, Lauryn Hutchinson 14, Karyn Forbes 33, 45, Cecily Stoute 35, Liana Hinds 41, Maya Matouk 49, 66, Raenah Campbell 72 pen, 86, Maria-Frances Serrant 75) at Providenciales, Turks and Caicos.
(8 April)
Guyana 0, Nicaragua 0 at Lenora, Guyana
(6 April)
Dominica 8 (Kasika Samuel 11, Starr Humphreys 32, 46, 48, Sari Finn 33, 40, Kylee Bertrand 84, Briyanna Philip 90), Turks and Caicos Islands 1 (Kadine Delphin 45+2) at Roseau, Dominica.
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Ralph nets hat-trick in T&T’s 13-0 win.
By Nigel Simon (T&T Guardian).
Chelcy Ralph registered a hat-tricks as T&T’s senior Women Warriors clobbered host Turks & Caicos 13-0 to take charge of their 2022 CONCACAF Women’s World Cup Group F Qualifying Series at the Turks & Caicos Islands Football Association National Academy in Providence, on Saturday.
With the win, the Kenwyne Jones-coached Women Warriors moved to the top of the five-team round-robin pool with a maximum of nine points from three matches, two ahead of Guyana, who was held goalless at home by Nicaragua on Friday night ahead of their top-of-the-table clash with T&T at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet, Tobago on Tuesday from 6 pm.
With only the pool winner advancing to the next phase of Concacaf Women’s qualifiers, T&T will go into the match against the Guyanese needing only a draw to top the group and move on to the next stage.
However, yesterday in Providence, Turks & Caicos custodian Crystal Jean-Baptiste could not conjure such heroics as Ralph of Ball State University in the USA helped herself to a treble in the sixth, 17th and 82nd minutes, while Matouk of Police FC got a double in a second-half blitz with goals in the 49th and 66th minutes before making way for Corban University’s Maria-Frances Serran to get on the scoresheet in the 74th minute.
Team captain Karyn Forbes opened the scoring in the 33rd and 45th, and Raenah Campbell also added a pair (72nd and 86th) while Lauryn Hutchinson, Shadi Cecily Stoute (University of Georgia), Liana Hinds (Hibernian Women), and Serrant got one each to complete the lopsided win.
With an eye on the clash with Guyana, Jones also had the luxury of resting regular starters, goalkeeper Kimika Forbes, defenders Rhea Belgrave, and Victoria Swift, and attacking duo Amaya Ellis, and Asha James, both based in the USA, but all of whom will no doubt return to Tuesday’s starting squad.