PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC):

Trinidad & Tobago guaranteed themselves a spot in the semi-final of the inaugural Caribbean Football Union Girls Invitational Champion-ship, with a solid whipping of Anguilla on Sunday.

Striker Jo-Marie Lewis registered a first-half hat-trick as the hosts thrashed the Anguillans 6-0 in Group A at the Marvin Lee Stadium.

With the win, their second in as many matches, T&T improved to a maximum six points and also claimed a berth in the last four of the competition on Thursday.

The Bahamas, beaten by T&T 1-3 in its opener, rebounded to slip past the Dominican Republic 1-0 in the first match, while Haiti flogged Aruba 3-1 in the third match Sunday. Haiti's win set up a group B decider with Jamaica.

Blistering sunshine

The T&T girls took a while before Lewis opened the scoring in the 27th minute.

Eight minutes later Lewis got her second for a 2-0 lead before she completed her hat-trick five minutes from the end of the first-half for a comfortable 3-0 advantage.

On the resumption, T&T picked up where they left off with Khadidra Debisette, scorer of a double in the team's opening win, Jonelle Warrick and Kayla Taylor adding to the team's tally.

Debisette banged in the fourth goal in the 66th minute, while Warrick and Taylor netted two minutes apart, in the 73rd and 75th.