Howard Walker, Staff Reporter
Boys' Town's George Vernal. - FILE
TWO GOALS in three minutes by George Vernal led Boys' Town to a 2-1 win over Seba United in their Wray and Nephew National Premier League (NPL) game at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex yesterday.
Vernal, a former Camperdown player fresh out of the New York area where he was plying his trade before being spotted by former national coach Carl Brown, struck in the 41st and 44th minutes to give Boys' Town a 2-0 lead at the break.
The hard-kicking Vernal, opened the scoring when his torrid shot dipped in front of the goalkeeper and bounced awkwardly into the goal. Then three minutes later he powered home from close range, almost ripping the net apart.
But Seba rallied and Delroy Ellis rose above the defenders to head home in the 67th minute, setting up a tense last 20 minutes.
The MoBay team totally dominated the rest of the proceedings, throwing everything at Boys' Town but could not find the equalizing goal and left Kingston empty handed.
Boys' Town were securing their fourth win of the season, jumping to 20 points to be joint seventh with Reno and four ahead of Seba.
Andrew Price, coach of Boys' Town, was a happy and relieved man after seeing his team looking all over like winners, only to either draw or lose the game on numerous occasions.
POINTS WELCOMED
Said Price: "It was really tight in the end, but we welcome the points. We haven't put in a full 90 minutes together. We had a very good first half, got two goals, then sat back in the second half".
Losing coach Heron Grey was livid, criticizing referee Courtney Campbell for not stopping the game when his midfielder Norman Foster sustained a head injury which Boys' Town capitalized on to score the opening goal.
"It was head injury and he wasn't given the attention right away. Our players got distracted and that's when the goal was scored. Blood was flowing and the referee didn't stop the game," Grey lamented.
GOALSHEET
Boys' Town 2
George Vernal, 41st, 44th
Seba 1
Delroy Ellis, 67th.
