FOOTBALL-CARIBBEAN-Winners Clifton and Browne lead goal parade

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LONDON– Four Caribbean players – Adrian Clifton, Rhys Browne, Rowan Liburd, and Ricky Modeste – were all on target in England on Tuesday night, with only one of them finishing on the losing side.

Clifton, a Montserratian forward, helped make it back-to-back wins for Maidenhead United in the National League with a 2-0 victory over Altrincham at York Road.

The 33-year-old, who rejoined in June for a third stint with the fifth-tier outfit, gave the hosts the lead on 12 minutes when he stole the ball off the goalkeeper and slotted it into an empty net.

Shawn Mccoulskey doubled the advantage on 88 minutes, capitalizing on poor defending to score in the bottom corner as Maidenhead climbed to fifth in the early-season table.

After the game, Clifton said on his social media account: “Buzzing to score on my third York Road debut and get the points at home. I couldn’t sleep last night. I said, ‘gaffer, I’m scoring today.’”

In the same league, Browne, a 26-year-old Antigua and Barbuda forward tapped home Jack Cook’s header to give visiting Wealdstone a 10th-minute lead at Boundary Park as Oldham Athletic suffered their first defeat of the season, going down 2-1.

Wealdstone doubled their lead seven minutes later when Browne picked out Tarryn Allarakhia, who slotted home confidently before Oldham reduced the arrears seconds after the restart when Ben Tollitt crashed a fierce shot in off the crossbar.

Modeste, a 34-year-old Grenada winger, followed up his winner for Concord Rangers at Hungerford Town in the sixth-tier National League South by grabbing the equalizer with a brilliant flick in the 76th minute in a 1-1 draw against Dulwich Hamlet. 

Liburd,  a 29-year-old St Kitts and Nevis forward, scored in first-half injury time for Cheshunt to reduce the arrears as they went down 2-1 at Welling United after finishing with ten men in another National League South fixture. 

Liburd had been on the mark with a goal in Cheshunt’s 3-2 win over Hampton & Richmond earlier this month.

Elsewhere in National League South, Jamaica-born Simeon Jackson, a 35-year-old forward who went on to make 49 appearances for Canada, gave Chelmsford City an 11th-minute lead at Slough Town as the visitors went on to win 2-0.

Dominic Poleon, a 28-year-old forward of St Lucian descent, followed up his Ebbsfleet United goal against Weymouth in National League South by grabbing a 39th-minute equalizer en route to a 3-2 win at Eastbourne Borough.

In League Two, Doncaster Rovers continued scoring late goals as Kieran Agard’s stoppage-time strike saw them take all three points in a 2-1 victory over 10-man Stockport County. Substitute Agard, 32, eligible to play for Jamaica, St Vincent, the Grenadines, or Dominica, slid a shot through the legs of goalkeeper Vitezslav Jaros to seal the win.

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