BY HOWARD WALKER

Observer senior reporter

walkerh@jamaicaobserver.com

Cavalier, playing with 10 men after 15 minutes, stunned a Tivoli Gardens team lacking verve 3-0 in their Red Stripe Premier League match at the Edward Seaga Stadium yesterday.

It was a brilliant display from the promoted Cavalier after Kirk Fletcher was red-carded in the 15th minute for striking a player and was given an early shower by referee Karl Tyrell.

But goals by Fabian Nethersole (25th), Claudious Blackburn (60th) and Girvon Brown (78th) gave Cavalier their second win over Tivoli Gardens this season and remained in seventh spot on 30 points.

Tivoli Gardens, who also had Raymond Williamson dismissed after picking up his second yellow in the 69th minute, was losing their eighth game of the campaign and stayed in ninth spot on 26 points.

Cavalier, pressing for a second end-of-round final spot, played as if they had the extra man throughout, and Nethersole found space on the right, and with only defender Kasai Hinds to beat, he did just that and rammed home a right footer.

Then the club’s top scorer, Blackburn, scored a 35-metre scorcher on the counter-attack before Brown outmuscled last man Kemar Flemmings, rounded goalkeeper Roybert Clarke and walked the ball home in the 78th minute to totally embarrass the home team and their fans.

Tivoli Gardens — Roybert Clarke, Kemar Flemmings, Damion Gordon, Kasai Hinds, Terrence Allen (Jermain Allen 74th), Raymond Williamson, Shawn McKoy (Nicholas Scott 74th), Akeem Thenstead (Junior Flemmings 46th), Davion Garrison, Dane Kelly, Jamie Robinson.

Subs not used: Deron Duncan, Fitzroy Campbell, Barrington Pryce, Yohan Thomas

Booked: Kemar Flemmings (15th), Raymond Wiliamson 44th (68th), Junior Flemmings (90th)

Cavalier — Gariece McPherson, Donovan Alveranga, Oshane Jenkins, Kirk Fletcher, Andre Forbes, Girvon Brown, Dellon Wilson, Jeffrey Henry, Rasheede Clarke (Michaelos Martin 58th), Fabian Nethersole (Chevonne Marsh 74th), Claudious Blackburn.

Subs not used: Everdean Scarlett, Raymond Thompson, Mitchily Waul, Conroy Johnson, Phillip Llewellyn Booked: Kirk Fletcher (red-carded 15th), Gariece McPherson (80th)

Referee: Karl Tyrell

Assistant Referees: Lloyd Edwards, Stephen Brown

Fourth Official: Carvel Banton

Match Commissary: Uken Campbell