Audley Boyd, Assistant Sport Editor 
IAN ALLEN, Staff Photographer -
Jamaica's Fabian Davis (left) tries to evade a tackle from St. Martin's William Jean-Louis during their Digicel Caribbean Cup football match at the National Stadium in Kingston on Wednesday night. The Reggae Boyz swamped St. Martin 12-0.
IF YOU want to see a bag of goals, then make sure you're at Jarrett Park this evening to witness confrontations pitting two of the Caribbean's highest ranking teams against others from the lowest rung in Group A Digicel Caribbean Cup action.
Jamaica, who hold down the No. 1 rating, will play 22nd ranked United States Virgin Islands (USVI) in the feature at 7:00 p.m. while Haiti, seeded at four, open the show at 5:00 p.m. against unranked St. Martin.
St. Martin were netballed 12-0 by the Reggae Boyz and the USVI 11-0 by Haiti in Wednesday's openers of this round-robin play-off and unless the matches are rained out, similar goal margins are anticipated.
On the basis of those performances, the two qualifying spots from this group already seem certified so the teams can concentrate on fine-tuning other areas of their play.
Haiti's team has 13 players who were part of the squad that was eliminated from the World Cup qualifiers for 2006 in the early stages after 1-1 and 3-0 finishes against Jamaica.
The Reggae Boyz, meanwhile, have only captain Andy Williams, Tyrone Marshall, Fabian Davis and Damion Stewart from the group that defeated the Haitians. This is due to their exit from the World Cup qualifying last week at the semi-final group stage.
YOUTHFUL SQUAD
Since, they have released the coaching staff and technical director and selected a fairly youthful squad to give a number of their Under-20 players practise for upcoming qualifiers in January, for its age group world championship.
That competition represents Jamaica's last chance to win a place in a football world finals following failures by the Under-23s to reach the Olympics, the Under-19 women, the Under-17 Boyz only just on Monday and the senior Boyz last week.
It is also part of the measuring stick that will be used in the ongoing judging process of the Crenston Boxhill-led Jamaica Football Federation (JFF) which took up office approximately one year ago.
The emphasis on youth in this squad speaks to this end and this afternoon several of them will get another opportunity to sharpen skills for their big January moment.
In this light, it would be a good opportunity to let loose one of the most exciting youngsters around, Lenworth Hyde Jnr., who makes things happen. He was surprisingly left out of Wednesday's match squad.
Following that initial show, new coach Wendell Downswell said this about the team: "What was most important was the tactical discipline that we maintained overall and also important was the shape that we kept when we lost possession.
DID WELL DEFENSIVELY
"If you look at the three thirds we played well coming from the back and going into transition into the middle third and then into the attacking third. Defen-sively, we did well in terms of closing them down well," he added.
An excellent sign was the finishing of Luton Shelton, the Under-20 team's ace striker who netted four times on Wednesday, and a quickly-taken hat-trick by Roland Dean, another one being fine-tuned but for the Olympic qualifiers that will come around again later next year.
Several other Under-20 players got a look-in, including striker Richard West who hit the target once, then forced a number of goal saves.
Even though they are getting practise for their age group decider, the juniors will know every game is an opportunity to cement their place among the real Reggae Boy regulars that are to lead the World Cup campaign in coming years.
Commenting on the likely showdown for group honours with Haiti on Sunday, Downs-well said: "The Hatitians played a weak team. By the second game we'll see more of them... but we have to get past the second game before we think about the Haitians."
