Boldles FC's Glenroy Levy loses his balance after stepping on the ball under a challenge from a D.B. Basovak player during the Juciful St. Catherine Major League return-leg final at Prison Oval on Sunday. Bodles won 1-0 to take the series 2-0. - Anthony Minott/Freelance Photographer

Anthony Minott, Freelance Writer

Bodles Football Club captured the Juciful-sponsored St. Catherine Football Association (FA) Major League title with a 1-0 win over D.B. Basovak in the second-leg final at the Prison Oval on Sunday, hence winning the two-way series 2-0 on aggregate.

The win qualified Bodles fornext season's South Central Super-League.

The game ended a successful season for Bodles as they had also won the midseason final, beating Tru-Juice 2-0, and were runners-up to Portmore United in the St. Catherine Co-operative Happy Sutherland knockout competition.

Vicent McBean gave Bodles fans something to cheer about with a second-half strike. His original shot was blocked by the D.B. Basovak custodian, but he slotted home on the second attempt, literally knocking the wind from the D.B. Basovak sail.

We were a bit tentative in the first half and that's normally the case in a final. We made a few adjustments for the second half in midfield, and we started dominating the game from there," Bodles coach Calvin Valentine said.

Clear-cut chances

The first half was dominated by D.B. Basovak whose players got a couple of clear-cut chances, but faulty shooting denied them a goal.

As early as the first minute of play, Basovak's Kirk Newman botched a chance when he misfired from close range. Newman also missed another chance in the second half, heading wide of the mark.

However, the second half saw Bodles come into their own and dictating the pace right through to the completion of the game, as Basovak had to play catch up against a team that motored like a well-oiled machine.

Incidentally, Bodles could have gone further ahead but the speedy Donovan Wolfe was prevented from scoring as Basovak's custodian dived full stretch to parry his shot for a corner kick.

D.B. Basovak coach, Cyvol Griffiths, said that his team lost focus in the second half.

"The team played to instructions in the first half and we did well, but in the second half the team strayed from the game plan and the players started doing their own thing and it cost us."