- ANDREW SMITH/ PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Tyiesha Grant of Barbican (foreground) moves away from Harbour View's Shauna-Kay Spencer during their Sherwin Williams Super League second-leg final at the Constant Spring Complex yesterday. In the background is Harbour View's Astaycia McIntyre. The game ended 0-0 with Barbican winning 2-0 on aggregate.
Howard Walker, Staff Reporter
BARBICAN AND Rae Town covered themselves in glory after capturing the Sherwin Williams Super and A League titles in contrasting styles at the Constant Spring Complex yesterday.
Barbican, with a 2-0 first leg advantage, easily held Harbour View to a drab 0-0 draw, registering a 2-0 aggregate win in the Premier League.
Barbican pocketed $125,000 for a successful season while Harbour View, the knockout champions, collected $75,000 for their second-place effort.
Winning coach Charles Edwards said his plan "was to come out and counter Harbour View as much as possible and try and a get a goal early to put them on the back foot. But Harbour View came out very spiritedly and put up a very good showing".
Vin Blaine, coach of Harbour View, once again the losing coach, said it was always going to be difficult to overcome the first-leg deficit.
"Barbican had a 2-0 lead which means we would have to score early, and once that did not happen it became more difficult for us," Blaine said.
HARD-FOUGHT DRAW
Meanwhile, Rae Town captured the A League title after playing to a hard fought 1-1 draw with Maverley, winning the encounter 3-2 on aggregate.
Trailing 2-1 from the first leg, Maverley quickly wiped away the one-goal deficit as Latoya Daley struck in the 26th minute to level the tie 2-2 on aggregate.
But 12 minutes from time, Sodea Lewis equalised for Rae Town when her long-range freekick fell through the grasp of the Maverley custodian Deborah Chambers and into the goal.
Trailing 3-2 on aggregate, Maverley threw everything at Rae Town but could not find the all-important goal and the game ended 1-1.
