Audley Boyd, Assistant Editor - Sport
Harbour View's Kemeel Wolfe (right) celebrates scoring Harbour View's winnning goal with teammate Loxley Thomas, during their Cash Plus Premier League match at Harbour View Mini Stadium yesterday. Harbour View won 3-2. - Ricardo Makyn/Staff Photographer.
An enthralling second-half comeback and substitute Kemeel Wolfe's telling contributions through a goal and penalty-making move lifted champions Harbour View to an exciting 3-2 victory over Waterhouse, in their Cash Plus Premier League match at Harbour View Mini Stadium yesterday.
The victors stayed second by moving to 12 points, one behind leaders Seba, while Waterhouse slipped four places from third to seventh, while its tally remained at eight.
On a wet day that produced a whopping 21 goals in the league, Brian Wollaston netted at the eighth and 37th minutes to give Waterhouse a deserving lead for their dominance heading into the interval, even though it might have been by a solitary goal.
However, a combination of the visitors relaxing too much on the two-goal cushion and Harbour View - allowed more space - applying more purpose and pace, transformed play in a second half whose most defining moment probably came at the 71st minute, when three players were red carded. As a consequence of this Harbour View scored its equalising goal through the penalty that initiated all the sendings off.
Ejected
Referee Courtney Wallace played the law to a letter and ejected Waterhouse goalie Richard McCallum, who though fixing his eyes to the ball played through the air into his penalty box, collided with the sub who really defined the game, Kemeel Wolfe, after the latter had stolen in from the blind side to take the ball past him on his chest. McCallum was the last defender.
While Waterhouse were disputing the call, an off the ball incident ensued between Waterhouse defender Marco McDonald and opposing striker Kavin Bryan. It appeared both exchanged sneaking blows and both were then ejected.
Harbour View's Christopher Harvey then scored the penalty past second string goalie Rodney Hamilton, a replacement for key midfielder Damion Williams. Waterhouse's game went terribly wrong from that point, while that of Harbour View - which had pulled back a goal at the 56th minute through already substituted Donald Stewart - went the other way.
They turned complete control into maximum points at the 75th minute when the inspirational Wolfe took a poor back pass by defender Oneil Thomas and confidently stroked it past Hamilton with 15 minutes remaining.
| Harbour View | 3 |
Donald Stewart 56th Christopher Harvey 71st Kemeel Wolfe 75th Waterhouse | 2 |
Brian Wollaston 8th, 37th
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