Second-placed Mucurapo Senior Comprehensive extended their lead over Malick Secondary Senior Comprehensive to four points when they earned a 2-0 victory over St Anthony's College on their BG T&T Secondary Schools Football League visit to Westmoorings.
Richard Roy and Khaleem Highland spoiled the "Tigers" party in what must have been a very frustrating match for coach Nigel Grovesnor and his charges, reflective in several bookings-including two red cards-for the home team.
Exchanges were even for the first half of the encounter, St Anthony's playing without star striker Akil De Freitas, who missed the match due to suspension.
Neither team could turn their chances into goals, as Lester Peltier and Jonathan Glenn for the "Tigers" wasted opportinities, while Roy and Akim Armstrong also missed the target narrowly for Mucurapo in the opening session.
The best chance of the half came when, on a muddy surface due to consistent rain, St Anthony's custodian Bevon Francois, on his goalline, could not hold a slippery long-range freekick cleanly.
But he grabbed the rebound headed his way by Armstrong to keep the scores level at 0-0 at the half.
In the second period, St Anthony's lost defender Andre Sebro four minutes after the restart, but they started the brighter of the teams, Peltier forcing a diving one-handed save from Mucurapo's Denzil Cazabon, and then missing an open shot from close range.
Things got worse for the Tigers when Roy found an opening and slotted home from close range in the 59th, and then in the 66th Francois denied Roy again, punching a scorcher wide.
Cazabon was again called on to keep Peltier out with a close-up effort, and then a Micah Lewis freekick went just wide of Cazabon's upright.
As the game wound down, ten-man St Anthony's, on the counter-attack, were stretched at the back and in the first minute of stoppage time, Highland squeezed the ball through the home team's defence for Mucurapo's second.
Peltier was sent off just before the final whistle, adding insult to the Tigers' injury as the game ended 2-0 in Mucurapo's favour, putting them four points adrift of Malick on 15, and just three behind North Zone leaders Fatima, who had an emphatic 10-0 win over "Tranquil" at their Mucurapo Road ground yesterday.
In another fixture, QRC and Malick played to a 1-1 draw at QRC ground, St Clair.
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