BAYS Win In Caribbean Club Championships

The 2024 CFU Club Shield kicked off with 20 teams on Thursday evening in Willemstad, Curaçao. The first two of 20 matches were played, with four teams involved in the preliminary round. And in the second of those matches, the Bexon Active Youth Squad earned the first win for a Saint Lucian team at this level since 2019. Rio Longville could perhaps have been on the scoreboard twice or three times. But he was there once, and that was all that mattered. The 21-year-old from Canaries struck in the 80th minute to give BAYS a 1-0 win over Sint Maarten champions, SCSA Eagles. Roger Joseph is the team’s manager. He shared his thoughts on the fixture with St. Lucia Times. “I think the game was a perfect example of plan and execute,” he remarked. “As a technical team we did our homework and it gave us a victory. The team did a great job on the field of play, and key players stood up tall when they had to. “Tactically, we played a lot through our midfield as this is where we knew something could have come from. We used the space that was given to us perfectly, and let’s...