Goalscorer Lesly St Fleur shown in action. Photos by Thinq Studio

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The Bahamas men’s national soccer team celebrates.

#By BRENT STUBBS

#Senior Sports Reporter

#bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

#WITH a penalty kick from veteran captain Lesly St Fleur, the Bahamas Junkanoo Boys national men’s soccer team prevailed with an impressive 1-0 victory over St Vincent & the Grenadines on Friday at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium in game one of their World Cup Qatar Qualification.

#The team, coached by Nesly Jean, left the following day for Trinidad & Tobago where they were scheduled to play the second leg of their home and away series of matches on Monday. However, they got delayed in Miami, Florida on Saturday because of bad weather.

The Bahamas men’s national soccer team.

#Trinidad & Tobago, known as the Soca Warriors, are coming off a 2-1 defeat by Nicaragua, but, at home, they are expected to provide a stiffer challenge for the Bahamas.

#It was in the 68th minute when centre forward Wood (Peter) Julmis was brought down in the 18-yard box and the referee did not hesitate in awarding a penalty for the foul. St Fleur, the Bahamas’ top goal scorer, calmly tucked the ball in the corner of the goal to add to his legend status. 

#The crowd erupted and the home team held on for the win that pegged the Bahamas record at 4-1-0 in Nations League play.

#The team had a cadre of young players – Omari Bain, William Bayles, Nicholas Lopez, Elijah Mitchell, Michael Massey, Derick Ferguson, Alexiou Cartwright, Jordin Wilson, Vance Wheaton, Kenaz Swain, Miguel Thompson and Cameron Evans – who all earned their first men’s international cap. 

#The team, managed by Larry Minns, are now looking ahead to Trinidad & Tobago. Following that match, they will host Nicaragua on Friday, June 10 and head back on the road to play Nicaragua on Monday, June 13th.

53RD ANNUAL LONG ISLAND REGATTA IN SALT POND

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LONG ISLAND REGATTA

#REGATTA TIME AGAIN: The 53rd annual Long Island Regatta was held over the weekend in Salt Pond, Long Island and was dubbed a tremendous success. In Class A, the New Legend won, followed by Ed Sky in second and the Good News in third. Winning Class B was the New Susan Chase with the Tari Anne second and Old Boy third. And in Class C, Xena won, Slaughter was second and Bul Reg came in third.

#(Photos courtesy of Patrick Hanna)

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Jazz Chisholm

#By RENALDO DORSETT

#Tribune Sports Reporter

#rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

#THE Bahamian connection in Major League Baseball continues to take centre stage in Miami, Florida.

#After Jazz Chisholm and the Miami Marlins split a four game series against Antoan RIchardson and the San Francisco Giants last week, the Marlins will now host Lucius Fox and the Washington Nationals in a three-game series this week at loanDepot Park in Miami, Florida.

#The Marlins opened with a 3-0 win Thursday night, following by the Giants’ 15-6 win on Friday.

#Miami rallied for a 5-4 win on Saturday before San Francisco concluded the series with a 5-1 win Sunday.

#The Marlins and Nationals begin the three-game series with the Washington Nationals tomorrow night. First pitch is at 6:40pm. Fox was called up to the Nationals from the Triple-A level with the Rochester Red Wings on June 3 and returned to the roster of the big league club for the first time since May 1. He made his historic MLB debut on April 10 and spent 10 games with the Nationals before he was assigned to the Red Wings.

#In April 2021, when the Marlins hosted the Giants for a three game series it marked the first time a Bahamian player and a Bahamian coach shared the same field in an MLB game.

#“We’re closing the gap,” Richardson told Evan Webeck of Mercury News following the most recent series, “The Jazz Chisholms of the world inspired me as a player. It was really important to keep going because I wanted them to have a visual of someone playing professional baseball. I wanted them to see that hey, this is real for people like me. That’s really where I found inspiration.”

#Chisholm also added that seeing Richardson break through to the Major League level served as an inspiration to what was then a group of teenagers as they prepared for a professional baseball career.

#“(Richardson) definitely did do that. I have to give him that for sure. He definitely gave us the hope to believe that we can make it. He’s the one who inspired all of us that’s coming up right now,” Chisholm said of Richardson’s impact, “He was basically a big brother.I didn’t have all the money in the world. I couldn’t afford to keep getting wood bats that were gonna break. … The easiest resource was to ask him.”

#On April 27 this season, Chisholm and Fox became the first pair of Bahamas-born players to appear in the same Major League Baseball game since 1961 when the Nationals Park in Washington DC.

#According to the Elias Sports Bureau, the only other pair of Bahamians to play in the same game were Andre Rodgers and Tony Curry, who faced each other six times during the 1960 and 1961 seasons.

#“Just to do it with Jazz means a lot. We spoke about this moment from when we were kids when we started playing baseball,” Fox told the Washington Post following the historic game, “I don’t take it as pressure, I take it as pride, I get a lot of support from the people back home. And just making it at this level is a big deal for us. So I’m proud of what we’ve done so far and looking forward to doing many more great things in the future with this game.”

#Both players were members of the 2015 International Signing Class.

#“He’s just like a big brother to me. The love I have for Lucius is just like anyone else who’s my blood,” Chisholm said about Fox before he reflected on the moment, “I feel like, for us, it’s super important. Just to show the kids that anybody could do it. We always go back, we always go home and talk to the kids and be like, ‘Bro, we’re from the same place you are.’”

#There are currently 24 Bahamians in the minor league baseball system.

#“We’re just a small country that really loves people and loves each other and that’s why we play the game,” Richardson said. “I’m really excited I get to watch these young people go after their dreams and be bold about it, because that just wasn’t the case 10 or 15 years ago.”

Connecticut Sun forward Jonquel Jones (35) is guarded by Las Vegas Aces guard Chelsea Gray (12) and forward Dearica Hamby, right, during a WNBA basketball game in Las Vegas on Thursday, June 2, 2022. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)

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#By RENALDO DORSETT

#Tribune Sports Reporter

#rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

#JONQUEL Jones concluded May with a season low scoring effort but opened June with season highs in three consecutive games to earn WNBA Eastern Conference Player of the Week honours.

#It marked the 12th time in Jones’ five-year career that she won the award and the first since September of the 2021 season.

#Jones finished with 25 points, eight rebounds, a season high six assists and three steals in the Connecticut Sun’s 93-86 win over the Seattle Storm Sunday night at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington.

#After failing to reach the 20-point barrier through the first nine games of the season, including back-to-back nine point (May 28) and eight point (May 31) games, Jones has scored at least 20 points in the last three games.

#During the week of May 30-June 5, Jones averaged 19.3 points, 8.8 rebounds, 2.8 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.0 blocks in 29.4 minutes per game.

#Prior to Sunday’s contest, she finished with 20 points on 7-9 shooting and seven rebounds in a win over the Las Vegas Aces on June 2, followed by 24 points on 6-8 shooting and seven rebounds in a 92-88 win over the Phoenix Mercury on June 3.

#The Storm led by as many as 13 points in the first half, had a 63-53 lead late in the third quarter and 67-61 going into the fourth quarter. Jones added a layup to cap and 8-0 run and give the Sun their first lead since the game’s opening basket.

#After a Storm basket, the Sun went on a 17-2 run to put the game away late in the fourth.

#“I think the first half was the hardest part,” Jones said in her post game availabilit. “Just getting our bodies to really be locked in and just getting to that game level.”

#After they won three of four on the road trip and five or their last six, the Sun now lead the WNBA’s Eastern Conference at 9-3, one game behind the Las Vegas Aces (10-2) for the best record in the league.

#“I feel like in the past, we knew that we were a pretty good team. We knew that when things were going well for us, we were going to win a game. And I feel like we didn’t really know how we were in terms of adversity, because in the past we would separate a little bit or things just wouldn’t feel the same, like that chemistry would kind of just go away,” Jones said.

#“And so I feel like this stretch that we just played, it showed us that we can win ugly games, that we can come back from deficits and still be able to stay in the game and win.

#“And so, it’s a good character builder for our team for sure.”

#Jones leads Connecticut in scoring at 15.6 points and one block per game, and is second on the team in rebounds per game at 8.3.

#The Sun return home to the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut Wednesday night in the first of a four-game homestand when they host the Indiana Fever.

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Anthonique Strachan (File photo)

#By BRENT STUBBS

#Senior Sports Reporter

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#As Jamaica’s two-time double sprint champion Elaine Thompson-Herah went on to post a meet record in the women’s 100 metres at the Wanda Diamond League Meeting in Rabat on Sunday, a technical error left Bahamian Anthonique Strachan watching in disbelief in the starting blocks.

#Competing in the fourth leg of the 12-event series around the world in the Wanda Diamond League determined by points, Strachan was lined up in lane eight of the race. However, at the start of the gun, she remained in her position as the rest of the field took off.

ELAINE Thompson-Herah of Jamaica celebrates her win in the 100-metre women’s race during the Diamond League athletics meeting in Rabat, Morocco, on Sunday. (AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy)

#“I’m okay. It’s just that the speaker in my lane wasn’t working and I didn’t hear any of the commands,” said a somewhat disappointed Strachan after the race in the Prince Moulay Abdellah Sports Complex in the capital city of Morocco. “It was just a technical error.”

#There were no glitches for Thompson-Herah, who pulled away from the field midway through the race to breeze through the finish line in 10.83 seconds to lower her previous meet record of 10.87 that she established back in 2017.

#Ivory Coast’s veteran sprinter Marie-Josee Ta Lou took second place in a season’s best of 11.04, while Jamaican Natasha Morrison was third in 11.22, also a season’s best.

#For Strachan, who came into the race having ran a lifetime and season’s best of 10.99 earlier this year, it was not the outcome she anticipated.

#“I’m very upset about it because I had planned to go out there and run relatively good, but stuff happens. That’s all I could say,” Strachan said.

#“This was supposed to be my last meet before the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations Nationals (in June), so I don’t know. I will have to speak to my team and see.”

#The 28-year-old Strachan is currently training in Jamaica as part of the Maximising Velocity and Power Track and Field Club (MVP Club), which now includes Morrison and Shericka Jackson, two of her training partners.

#In addition to running her lifetime best of 10.99 in Kingston, Jamaica on March 26, Strachan has also produced a season’s best of 22.55 in her specialty in the 200m on April 23, which was shy of her personal best of 22.32 that she recorded on June 22, 2013 in Nassau.

#In securing some of her fastest times across the board this year, Strachan has even moved up to the 400m where she clocked a season’s best of 52.84 on April 2. She has a lifetime best of 52.24 that she ran on June 11, 2016 in Montverde, Florida. The double sprint 100-200m champion at the International Amateur Athletic Federation’s World Junior Championships in Barcelona, Spain in 2012, the same year that she got Rising Star Athlete of the Year honours.

#Strachan, who has gone through her share of adversities with injuries, is still looking forward to making her first global final as an elite or senior athlete. She has qualified for the World Athletics, formerly the IAAF, World Championships in Eugene, Oregon in July.

#Colebrooke missed final

#At the Music City Track Carnival at the Vanderbilt Track Facility in Nashville, Tennessee on Sunday, Samson Colebrooke, who also has qualified for the World Championships, had to settle for 15th place in the men’s 100m.

#Colebrooke, who has ran a season’s best of 10.02 on April 9, clocked 10.61 for eighth place in the last of two heats.

#Cejhae Greene of Antigua had the fastest qualifying time of 10.06, followed by Jamaica’s Ackeem Blake in 10.08.

#In the final, Blake got to the finish line first in a personal best of 9.92 with Greene coming in second in a season’s best of 10.02. American Kendal Williams also posted a season’s best of 10.05 for third place.

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PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago – The Bahamas senior men’s national soccer team has an unusual schedule for this window of the 2022 CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football) Nations League. That schedule has the team playing four games in 10 days – two at home and two on the road. That calls for players need to recover quickly and for any minor injuries to be dealt with expeditiously. Dr. Sandeep Goud is the one overseeing that aspect as the team’s doctor.

The Bahamas finished playing Trinidad and Tobago last night and caught an early flight this morning to head back home to play Nicaragua at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium on Friday. It is an unusual first window due to the onset of the FIFA (International Football Federation) World Cup in November in Qatar. Goud’s role is to ensure quick recovery of the team and to mend injured players back to good health.

“Normally there is a whole recovery after games with ice baths, nutrition and stretch, but all of that is jeopardized by having to travel the next day. It is taking a little toll on the players but we are trying to do our best and have a strategy in place so they are fully prepared for their next game,” Goud said.

The team is young and that is working out for them. So far, everything has gone smoothly as players have been healthy and are ready to play again.

“Having no big injury is a plus,” Goud said. “Injuries take time to heal and with less than 72 hours between two games, it is a little too much and the body doesn’t have sufficient time for recovery. We’re focusing on nutrition in terms of recovery as well as other rehab strategies such as ice baths. It is really helping them to recover and get fit for the next game.”

The team is not staffed with a team chef so Goud said that he instructs the players about the importance of good nutrition in order to fuel their bodies.

“Certain foods like fatty foods interferes with your recovery – your body inflammation system. At the same time because you are in competition you stay away from alcohol, maintain the right amount of hydration and electrolytes so that you flush out all the metabolic waste. All of these play a crucial role in making sure within the limited time that they have, that they come back to their best form to perform,” Goud said.

CONCACAF has been mindful not to schedule games in the middle of the day when it is very hot. So far, The Bahamas has played both of its matches in the evenings when the temperature is cooler.

“Although the heat aspect is taken away from it, there’s still a lot of humidity and they still sweat. Hydration is key and there are clear guidelines and enough data as to how often you have to hydrate and what you need to hydrate from. While we are lucky that the games are in the late evenings, the heat aspect is minimized but the sweat, the salt loss is still the same, so we haven’t arrived yet. We do have a fair amount of nutrition that we take care of in terms of protein, electrolytes, and the pregame and postgame recovery as well,” Goud said.

Competition has resumed but the COVID-19 virus is still ever present. Testing is done on a regular basis to ensure the safety of the team.

“It is important that we test because of how the strain is currently, and even though all the players have been immunized, we have to monitor them. It’s still something that can jeopardize the team since it’s a team event. We have steps in place where if somebody is symptomatic, we make sure that they quarantine and are tested, and if found positive they are away for about a week or 10 days. We retest them with an antigen, and once it is negative, they come back,” Goud said.

FIFA has clear guidelines for international teams which basically aligns with what the Ministry of Health and Wellness has put in place in terms of screening, quarantining and returning to play.

The team has two more games remaining in this window. Goud is looking to ensure that the team is recovered, healthy and ready physically for its next match.

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In Life University Running Eagles’ men’s track and field first season since it went dormant, Bahamian Head Coach Dominic Demeritte bagged the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Men’s Track and Field Coach of the Year award. He was instrumental in the Running Eagles’ journey to the NAIA Men’s Track and Field outdoor title this past season.

The men went to Gulf Shores, Alabama, and finished with a total of 52 points to take home the title. They won four events. Southeastern University was second with 47 points and was followed by the University of British Columbia with 39 points.

This was the first time Life University won the NAIA outdoor title since 2000.

The Running Eagles produced the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the meet, Phemelo Matlhabe, and the national championship came on the heels of them winning the Mid-South Conference (MSC) Men’s Track and Field Championship.

In addition to being named the NAIA Coach of the Year, the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) selected Demeritte as their national men’s coach of the year. His team captured 13 All-American awards.

It is a huge accomplishment for Demeritte who was named the head coach of the men’s team in September 2020.

Matlhabe was named USTFCCCA Men’s Track Athlete of the Year.

Demeritte was the women’s team interim head coach in 2021 and he coached them to the program’s first MSC Women’s Track and Field Championship. He won the MSC Coach of the Year Award. This year, they successfully defended that title.

At this year’s NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, the women finished fifth with 38 total points after entering the final day without a point. They won one gold medal and had other All-Americans. British Columbia won with 138 points.

The Bahamian Olympian coached five Bahamian males on his team – Venord Burrows, Nigel Hepburn, Corey Johnson, Nathan Moss and Hesley Charlton. On the women’s side he had Bahamians Aniqua Darville and Breanna Pratt.

Pratt ran the third leg of the women’s 4×400 meters (m) relay team that finished third at the nationals. They clocked 3:45.71. Indiana Tech won that relay with a time of 3:42.16, and British Columbia was second in 3:44.79.

The season for both teams have wrapped up. The men’s team will be looking to defend both their conference and national titles in 2023.

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Seven players from Grand Bahama will help make up The Bahamas’ Special Olympics soccer team, scheduled to compete in the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games June 3-12. Thanks to a donation from Playtime Sports, these players will do so with brand-new soccer boots.

“The stylish, black Adidas Predator soccer shoes with rubber cleats are not only top of the line, but revolutionary,” said Mark Hardy, Special Olympics Soccer national team coach.

“Adidas introduced the boots several years ago. They revolutionized soccer footwear. The boots, which have indentations along the outside from toe point to mid-foot, help spin the ball when the athlete correctly positions it on the dots. The indentations create more swerve on the ball for better shooting,” he explained.

Nine Grand Bahamian athletes will join the 23-member national team traveling to the Games in Orlando, FL.

The players include Natalia Demeritte, 12; Keino Curry, 15; goalkeeper Levar Laing, 15; Justin Miller, 16; unified partner Jaren Curry, 17; Orien Clough, 19; Dennis Maycock, 19; Dwayne Romer, 20 and Xavier Rolle, 20.

Hardy, who was elated with the generous donation, disclosed that the athletes usually play and practice in their regular tennis shoes.

“One of the things we struggle with is having soccer boots and shin guards for the players. In most cases, we have been able to get hand-me-downs and secondhand boots for the players from clubs I am involved with,” he said.

To have the players properly outfitted for the upcoming competition, Hardy reached out to the management of Freeport’s Playtime Sports.

Ghassan Haddad, store manager, agreed to assist the young athletes and the new soccer shoes were ordered and delivered.

“Three years ago, we did the same thing for the special team when they traveled to Abu Dhabi and played soccer. We are here to help whenever we can,” said Haddad.

Unable to meet in person for training sessions because of the pandemic, each player was given a soccer ball to practice with at home with instructions from their coaches.

“The players have been working hard. They are excited about getting these soccer boots and I am grateful to Playtime for this donation,” Hardy said.

“This is something the boys and girls need to make them look the part of a team. Like we often say  …  if you look the part, if you look good, that helps with the playing.”

Every three years, the athletes compete in the Special Olympics World Games, which are being held in Berlin, Germany, next year.

In 2019, The Bahamas’ Special Olympics soccer team won the bronze medal at the Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi.

However, with the World Games not taking place until 2023, Special Olympics Bahamas embraced the invitation from Special Olympics North America (SONA) to compete in the Special Olympics USA Games.

This is the first time countries outside of the USA have been invited to participate at the Special Olympics USA Games.

Over 3,800 athletes from the USA, Canada and the Caribbean will be competing in 19 sporting disciplines, including soccer, bocce, athletics, swimming, and bowling.

“So, our athletes will compete in soccer, bocce, and athletics. We had a swimmer from Abaco, but because that island is still recovering, he decided not to compete for personal reasons.

“For soccer, most of the players are from Grand Bahama. We have one bocce player, and our unified partner (player) is from a private school. The unified partner is a regular athlete that helps the special athlete on the field,” explained Cheryl Hurst, area coordinator for the Grand Bahama Special Olympics Chapter.

Walt Disney World is hosting the games this year, with much of the competition being held at ESPN’s Wide World of Sports Complex.

“Our athletes are over the moon with excitement at having the chance to compete after being through a storm and the pandemic,” Hurst said. “We are hoping to compete for more than just the bronze at the USA Games. We are looking to bring back the gold.”

The Special Olympics USA Games opening ceremony is June 5 and will be broadcast between 12 p.m. and 3 p.m. on most ABC stations.

MIAMI Marlins’ Jazz Chisholm Jr gestures to Avisail Garcia after he hit an RBI-single off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Antonio Senzatela in the fourth inning of the first game of a baseball doubleheader yesterday in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

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MARLINS’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. follows the flight of his three-run home run off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Antonio Senzatela.

#By RENALDO DORSETT

#Tribune Sports Reporter

#rdorsett@tribunemedia.net

#After two hitless games since his return from a hamstring injury, Jasrado “Jazz” Chisholm Jr was the catalyst of a Miami Marlins offensive explosion in the first game of yesterday’s double header.

#Chisholm drove in the first four runs of the Marlins 14-1 win over the Colorado Rockies in game one yesterday at Coors Field in Denver, Colorado.

#He finished 2-5 with four RBI. Chisholm got the scoring going with his RBI single in the second inning. He followed with his eighth home run of the season in the fourth inning to give the Marlins a 4-0 lead.

#After missing four games with a hamstring injury, Chisholm returned on May 29 in a 6-3 loss to the Atlanta Braves in the series finale at Truist Park in Atlanta, Georgia.

#On May 30 the Marlins’ offence again struggled in a 7-1 loss to the Rockies in the opening game of the series.

#Chisholm still leads the Marlins in several categories with a .276 average, 31 RBI, 22 runs, four triples and seven stolen bases. He ranks second on the team with eight home runs and is third with 38 hits and seven doubles.

#Chisholm also missed 16 games of his rookie season with a left hamstring strain.

#The Marlins travel to San Francisco to open their three game series against the Giants at Oracle Park. First pitch is set for 6:40pm local time.

Goalscorer Lesly St Fleur shown in action. Photos by Thinq Studio

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The Bahamas men’s national soccer team celebrates.

#By BRENT STUBBS

#Senior Sports Reporter

#bstubbs@tribunemedia.net

#WITH a penalty kick from veteran captain Lesly St Fleur, the Bahamas Junkanoo Boys national men’s soccer team prevailed with an impressive 1-0 victory over St Vincent & the Grenadines on Friday at the Thomas A. Robinson National Stadium in game one of their World Cup Qatar Qualification.

#The team, coached by Nesly Jean, left the following day for Trinidad & Tobago where they were scheduled to play the second leg of their home and away series of matches on Monday. However, they got delayed in Miami, Florida on Saturday because of bad weather.

The Bahamas men’s national soccer team.

#Trinidad & Tobago, known as the Soca Warriors, are coming off a 2-1 defeat by Nicaragua, but, at home, they are expected to provide a stiffer challenge for the Bahamas.

#It was in the 68th minute when centre forward Wood (Peter) Julmis was brought down in the 18-yard box and the referee did not hesitate in awarding a penalty for the foul. St Fleur, the Bahamas’ top goal scorer, calmly tucked the ball in the corner of the goal to add to his legend status. 

#The crowd erupted and the home team held on for the win that pegged the Bahamas record at 4-1-0 in Nations League play.

#The team had a cadre of young players – Omari Bain, William Bayles, Nicholas Lopez, Elijah Mitchell, Michael Massey, Derick Ferguson, Alexiou Cartwright, Jordin Wilson, Vance Wheaton, Kenaz Swain, Miguel Thompson and Cameron Evans – who all earned their first men’s international cap. 

#The team, managed by Larry Minns, are now looking ahead to Trinidad & Tobago. Following that match, they will host Nicaragua on Friday, June 10 and head back on the road to play Nicaragua on Monday, June 13th.