The organisers and the sponsors of last Saturday’s inaugural staging of the Digicel Jamaica Invitational Masters tournament at Wespow Park in Tucker are elated by the success of the one-day event.

George Evans, chairman of the organising committee, said most targets were met. He said that with a bit of tweaking in some areas, a better staging is expected next year.

Mark Martin, sports marketing manager for main sponsors Digicel, said ways are already been looked at to make next year’s competition even better.

Constant Spring FC of Kingston are the first winners of the Maklin Peterkin Memorial trophy and the $100,000 first prize after beating St James outfit Jamaica Brazil 4-2 on penalty kicks in the finals after playing out a 0-0 draw in regulation.

Constant Spring, who were unbeaten all day, had to win their last two games via the penalty kicks route after beating Lauderhill Lions of Florida 4-3 in the semi-final. At the end of regulation both teams had been tied at 1-1.

In an earlier meeting between the two teams, Constant Spring had beaten Jamaica Brazil 3-2 in Zone B.

In the other semi-final, Jamaica Brazil beat Hanover Masters 2-0 with Daniel Ricketts scoring both goals.

The finalists shared the sectional prizes. Constant Spring picked up two sectional prizes, the award for the best defensive player went to goalkeeper Kirk Williams, who was outstanding all day, and Orville Mullings won the award for the top scorer.

Jamaica Brazil was named Most Disciplined team while Norman Foster was named Most Valuable Player of the tournament.

Eight teams, including two from the United States, participated in the event.

“We are very, very happy and we would like to think our sponsors are happy as well with the entire day,” Evans told Jamaica Observer West. “The planning, the turn out. You could always get more people but for the first event we couldn’t be more pleased.”

He added: “The standard of the games were excellent. The two best teams got to the finals and it was close as they had to go to penalties to decide the winners.

“We are going to two days next year and we must have better timings and stick to time lines without exception. If a team is late they will forfeit games.”

Martin hinted they might be looking at another date and said they would be exploring dates that did not clash with other festivals.

“People came out to support it but regrettably we were competing with other festivals today and so we have spoken to the organisers and we are going to be looking at finding a more convenient date, one that will accommodate the invitation of more overseas team to facilitate a bigger and better festival next year,” he said.