Kwesi Mugisa, Staff Reporter

Portmore United's captain, Kevin Deerr, is challenged from behind by Boys' Town's Garfield Gillespie during their Wray and Nephew National Premier League football match at Ferdie Neita Park yesterday. Portmore United won 2-0. - Ian Allen/Staff Photographer

Boys' Town's miserable form continued when they went down 2-0 to Portmore United in Wray and Nephew National Premier League action at Ferdie Neita Park Sports Complex yesterday.

Portmore skipper Kevin Deerr, along with Boys' Town defender Xavean Virgo, was ejected with a straight red card in the 86th minute, while Portmore's Christo-pher Dawes received a red card three minutes after.

The Red Brigade, still eighth on 19 points and serving a two-match ban from their their home ground by the Jamaica Football Federation (JFF), have now suffered their third loss in four games.

Tough patch

"We are going through a pretty rough patch. Right now we have all sorts of bad things happening with injuries and other stuff," explained Boys' Town coach Andrew Price.

"All teams go through spells but we will just have to weather the storm. We didn't play well at all today, we didn't do any tracking and we gave Portmore too much space," he added.

It was Deerr who found himself with space in the 32nd minute and he made good use of it when he blasted past Boys' Town goalie Kirk Porter at his near post.

Bennett then found himself alone, wide of a bewildered Boys' Town back line, courtesy of a Deerr pass, and fired into the roof of the net to complete the scoring in the 41st minute.

"We did well today and I think we pretty much won the game from the first half," was the opinion of Portmore coach Paul Young, whose team lie fourth on 31 points.

He added: "We were comfortable but lost our composure a bit towards the end of the game."

Harbour View stay on top

At Elliston Wakeland Community Centre in Trelawny, joint front-runners Harbour View stayed atop the league, moving to 37 points when they clipped Village United 2-1.

Waterhouse (34), with a better goal difference, hosted Wadadah (15) in last night's late game at Drewsland Mini Stadium.

Striker Kavin Bryan opened the scoring for Harbour View in the second minute and Fabian Taylor netted in the 75th minute. Leon Irvin netted for the home team in the 48th minute.

Reno, with a half-game in hand (additional 43 minutes vs Boys' Town), also kept pressure on the leaders by moving to 34 points when they clipped Arnett (24) 2-1. Nicholay Findlayson scored a 37th minute penalty to give the home team the lead and Kirk Wright added another in 48th. Kwame Richardson scored a consolation penalty for Arnett in the 89th minute.

The league continues today with Seba United hosting Naggo Head at Trelawny's Elliston Wakeland Community Centre at 3:00 p.m.

Portmore 2

Kevin Deerr 32nd minute

Anthony Bennett 41st

Boys' Town 0