By Nodley Wright, Staff Reporter
Harbour View midfielder Jermaine Hue turns away from Georgetown's Mitchie Williams during yesterday's Caribbean Club Championship game at Harbour View. Hue scored once while Fabian Taylor (in the background) scored three times to give Harbour View a 7-1 victory. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer
HARBOUR VIEW predictably advanced to the next round of the Caribbean Club Championship with a 7-1 second leg hammering of the Cayman Islands' Georgetown at the Harbour View Mini-Stadium yesterday.
The home team advanced 10-1 on aggregate having won the first leg 3-0 two Thursdays ago. Harbour View now go on to Trinidad and Tobago for further qualifiers from December 11-15.
In yesterday's victory Fabian Taylor hit a hat-trick, substitute Nicholas McCreath a double while Jermaine Hue and Christopher Jackson had one each. Garth Anderson had the lone strike for Georgetown.
The scoreline was in no way an accurate reflection of Harbour View's dominance. In fact Georgetown would have been soundly beaten by Wadadah, the bottom placed team in the Wray and Nephew National Premier League.
So wide was the gap between the two teams that defender Jackson scored his first goal in a Harbour View shirt against them.
Midfield maestro Hue opened the gates in the 22nd minute before Taylor flowed up with his first nine minutes later. Anderson converted a penalty in the 39th minute which must have led coach Joscelyn Morgan to believe there was hope of making the game a match.
It was not to be.
Taylor added his second four minutes before half time to send Donovan Hayles' charges into the break with a 3-1 lead. Nine minutes into the second half, McCreath who replaced Jomo Gordon, scored his first.
It would take another 26 minutes before another goal would be scored as Harbour View turned down the throttle and toyed with the opposition. When it did come it was from the head of McCreath who beat goalkeeper Clay Coleman who was doing his best to keep the scoreline respectable. It needed more than him.
Taylor completed his hat-trick in the 87th minute and Jackson completed the rout in the final minute.
SCINTILLATING PERFORMANCE
"It was a scintillating performance from the team, I can't make any complaints," said a happy Hayles after his team's win. "It was very mature for them to play the way they did in a game where they were totally in control and didn't let up. It was quite entertaining and the technical aspect was excellent."
Georgetown's Morgan all but conceded that Harbour View were a better team. "Harbour View played well. We saw things while at home, we tried to make some adjustments but we have a lot of injuries.
"The squad today was pretty young, we had players under 17 and under 20. We had about two or three senior players. During this week we lost two of our senior players as well," said Morgan adding that the young replacements were not able to match their opponents.
