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Harbour View clip Tivoli in 3-2 thriller

By PAUL-ANDRE WALKER, Staff Reporter

Harbour View's Jermaine Hue (left) getting away from Tivoli's Steve Green in the Red Stripe KO match at the Edward Seaga Stadium yesterday. Harbour View won 3-2. - RICARDO MAKYN

HARBOUR VIEW JOINED Portmore United and Reno in the semi-finals of the Red Stripe Champions Cup yesterday.

The Stars of the East pulled off a thrilling 3-2 second leg victory against Tivoli at the Edward Seaga Stadium last night for a 4-2 aggregate win.

Harbour View, going into the game needing just a draw to take them to the round of four, had to pull out all the stops as Tivoli weren't about to go quietly.

Tivoli got their goals from Christopher Nicholas' brace in the 47th and 51st minutes of play.

Harbour View were brought back into the game, however, by Jermaine Hue's 60th and Damion Stewart's 66th minute strikes.

They then made themselves comfortable with Nicholas McCreath's goal in the 85th.

Discipline and determination

Coach Admiral Bailey, while praising his team for showing great resilience thought they needed to be more attentive

"I think when the second goal was scored we were over here celebrating and the game is going ahead, these are the little things that are always hurting us," he said.

Harbour View's coach Donovan Hayles was very pleased with his team's performance and thought that they showed a lot of discipline and determination.

"We really went and did what we wanted to do from the beginning," he said

"I think coming to the close of this game we showed a lot of character and played good football," he added.

In the day's other quarter-final game, Waterhouse and Rivoli played to a 1-1 draw in their first-leg match at the Waterhouse Mini-Stadium.

Waterhouse went ahead through Shane Edwards in the 39th minute before Garfield Reid nullified the advantage with a 69th minute free-kick.

Waterhouse's head coach, Max Straw, praised his opponents for their fighting spirit.

"Well you know, that's football for you. Rivoli fought back very well and we didn't make use of all the chances we got but that's football," said Straw.

Rivoli's Harold Thomas was happy for the away goal. "It's difficult to beat us with one goal, we have a good attacking game. I am glad we pulled one back and never gave up," he said.