{"id":15308,"date":"2024-01-09T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=15308"},"modified":"2024-01-09T15:31:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:31:14","slug":"dc-ballers-crowned-kings-in-one-guyana-king-and-queen-of-the-sand-football-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/dc-ballers-crowned-kings-in-one-guyana-king-and-queen-of-the-sand-football-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Ballers Crowned Kings in &#8220;One Guyana King and Queen of the Sand Football&#8221; Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>In a thrilling finale of the &#8220;One Guyana King and Queen of the Sand Football&#8221; tournament, DC Ballers emerged victorious in the men&#8217;s category, defeating LA Ballers 2-1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the tense contest, an early own-goal by LA Ballers gave DC Ballers a one-nil advantage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite several attempts by LA Ballers to level the score, including shots hitting the upright and crossbar, DC Ballers secured a 2-1 victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zidane Ramdehol extended DC Ballers&#8217; lead to 2-0 in the 11th minute, and Andre Mayers pulled one back for LA Ballers in the 16th minute. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With no additional goals in the second half, DC Ballers claimed the championship with a $1 million cash prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the women&#8217;s category, Speightland triumphed over Dynamo with a 3-2 victory. Sheneesa Cornelius scored two goals in the 35th and 39th minutes, while Nikita Wayne contributed a single strike in the 23rd minute for Speightland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dynamo had taken a 2-0 lead at the break with goals from Sandra Johnson (5th minute) and Glendy Lewis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the third-place match for the women, Hururu secured a 1-0 victory against Aroaima, with Nalini Fredericks scoring the lone goal in the 5th minute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presentation of cash and trophies followed the exciting matches, with Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill in attendance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a thrilling finale of the &#8220;One Guyana King and Queen of the Sand Football&#8221; tournament, DC Ballers emerged victorious in the men&#8217;s category, defeating LA Ballers 2-1. In the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15309,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350,352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15310,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15308\/revisions\/15310"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}