On Day 2 of the Men’s Competition of the Pan American Games in Pool A was between Trinidad & Tobago and Barbados. Within the first six minutes of the match, Trinidad & Tobago took a two goal lead over Barbados off a penalty corner goal by Kwandwane BROWNE and a field goal by Mickell PIERRE respectively. Barbados did not let up and took advantage of one of their first attacking opportunities. A strike by Barbados’ Kris HOLDER made it a 2-1 score in the 9^th minute. Trinidad & Tobago’s Captain Darren COWIE received a yellow card in the 15^th minute. Yet, this did not stop Trinidad & Tobago and quickly earned a penalty corner. BROWNE again converted the penalty corner goal to put Trinidad & Tobago again up by two goals over Barbados. Trinidad & Tobago continued their offensive pressure and Dwayne QUAN CHAN converted a penalty corner to put Trinidad & Tobago ahead of Barbados, 4-1 in the 23^rd minute. And Christopher SCIPIO converted a penalty corner in the 27^th minute to make the score 5-1. With either team unable to convert penalty corners in the final minutes of the half, the score remained 5-1 in favor of Trinidad & Tobago at halftime.

Trinidad and Tobago started the second half with their offensive intensity and momentum from the first. Goals by PIERRE, Atiba WHITTINGTON, and Aidain DE GANNES increased Trinidad & Tobago’s lead to 8-1 over Barbados in just the first four minutes of the second half. Trinidad & Tobago continued to dominate play and another goal by SCIPIO made it 9-1 in the 42^nd minute. Akim TOUSSAINT increased the score to 10-1 in the 60^th minute. Barbados worked to keep Trinidad & Tobago from scoring again, but QUAN CHAN put in a field goal in the final minutes to give Trinidad & Tobago the 11-1 win over Barbados.

Match Quotes

Barbados’ Coach Shawn CUMBERBATCH

On the match…

It was a hard game for us to take. We are a team decimated by injuries. We fought as hard as we could but we were totally out played by Trinidad. We tried our best to rotate the squad. It was not enough, but we still fought to the end.

Trinidad & Tobago’s Chris SCIPIO

On the match…

We played a good game and I give credit to Barbados. We played as hard as we could and got a good result.