MONTEGO BAY, St James — Lilliput Rovers were crowned champions of the St James Football Association Sandals Resorts International Major League on Saturday at Jarrett Park, after a close 1-0 win over Cambridge United in the final.

A second-half goal from Terrick Dixon was the difference in the game that was evenly contested and appeared to be heading to at least extra time before one mistake opened the door for the winners.

Lilliput Rovers join newly crowned Westmoreland FA champions George’s Plain in next year’s Western Confederation Super League, and took home the first-place cash prize of $200,000 for their efforts.

Heights FC finished third and Violet Kickers, who also won the Gordon “Butch” Stewart Award for Fair Play, were fourth.

Both teams missed a handful of scoring chances, but more so Cambridge United, who saw Obrien Bent, the competition’s leading scorer, miss no fewer than three gilt-edged scoring chances, two coming late in the game, as the Lilliput Rovers defence tired.

Bent’s first chance came in the 17th minute when he broke away from his markers, and with just goalkeeper Nyron Campbell to beat he slipped on the wet grass.

He got two more excellent chances late in the game, both after getting past Kemar Reynolds — but on both occasions he chose to go for goal rather than pass to wide open teammates inside the box.

In the 64th minute he blew past the Lilliput defence on the left flank, turned inside, but his toe poke from inside the six-yard area was cleared off the goal line by a defender.

Two minutes later, almost from the same spot, he powered the ball only to see it come back from the underside of the crossbar and into play.

Dixon scored the winner in the 38th minute on a swift counter-attack, playing the ball into an empty net after goalkeeper Chad Trough came off his line to block the play and was left stranded.

Cambridge United had one last chance to force extra time when Campbell dropped a corner, but Damaine James hit the ball high over the bar.

— Paul Reid