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Young players star as ruthless Robin Hood thrash St David’s

Hayden Dill scored a hat-trick in Robin Hood’s 7-0 demolition of St David’s at Lord’s on Sunday (Photograph by Ras Mykkal)

Hayden Dill and Xahvi DeRoza scored five goals between them to power Robin Hood to an emphatic 7-0 demolition of St David’s in the First Division at Lord’s on Sunday.

The Bermuda Under-20 pair led the away team’s charge with Dill scoring a hat-trick and DeRoza, who was named MVP for Warwick Football Academy in the Charles Marshall Cup Final on Friday night, netting twice as Cecoy Robinson’s team had things all their own way.

Chance Eve grabbed Hood’s other goal, while St David’s player Marcus Proctor scored an own goal.

Attacking midfielder DeRoza opened the scoring in the fourteenth minute and helped himself to a second a minute later.

Xahvi DeRoza scored a brace in Robin Hood’s huge win over St David’s (Photograph by Ras Mykkal)

Winger Dill then took over, scoring in the 26th, 63rd and 67th minutes to complete a fine hat-trick.

Proctor had the misfortune of scoring his own goal in the 74th minute before Eve rounded off the visitors resounding win five minutes from the end of regulation time.

“We needed that,” Cecoy Robinson, the Hood player-coach, told The Royal Gazette.

“We had a lot of college kids back so that also helped us to get the result that we got and it just shows what the club has in its ranks going forward, so it’s just a project that we’re working on.”

Robin Hood’s Ande Simons, right, battles for possession against St David’s Keishon Wilson (Photograph by Ras Mykkal)

The result enabled Hood to leapfrog Somerset Trojans and St David’s into third place in the league standings, four points adrift of second place Boulevard, who occupy the second promotion spot.

“We boosted our goal difference and a few of the results for the weekend actually went in our direction,” Robinson said. “But it’s a process for us and we are just taking one game at a time just to see where we end up.”

Robinson, who also serves as Bermuda Under-20 coach, praised Dill and DeRoza for their superb performances.

“Those two were pretty much the catalyst for us projecting ourselves in the direction that it was,” he said.

“They were both part of the under-20 national team so they should be pushing for themselves to be part of the senior national set-up for sure.”

The pair represented Bermuda at the Concacaf Under-20 Championship qualifier in St Kitts & Nevis last February, when Robinson’s team came up short of qualification.

Also recording a big win on Sunday were Southampton Rangers who beat Somerset Trojans 4-1 at Somerset Cricket Club.

Kevon Douglas earned the away side the lead in the seventeenth minute but Trojans came roaring back and equalised through a goal from Enrique Mendes in the 32nd minute.

Sijay Samuels restored Rangers’ lead five minutes later to earn his team a 2-1 advantage at the break.

Douglas grabbed his second of the match in the 63rd minute before team-mate Antonio Bailey rounded off the scoring in second-half stoppage time to put the game to bed. Rangers leapfrogged idle Vasco into seventh place.

The remaining match featured Somerset Eagles and newly crowned Shield champions Boulevard battle to a goalless draw at White Hill Field.

Blazers trail leaders X -Roads by two points while Eagles remain in sixth. The fixture between X-Roads and bottom side Vasco was postponed and rescheduled for March 9.

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Published January 06, 2025 at 1:31 pm (Updated January 06, 2025 at 1:32 pm)

Young players star as ruthless Robin Hood thrash St David’s

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