CATHERINE HALL, St James — After making her debut when she replaced star Khadija “Bunny” Shaw in the second half of Thursday’s friendly international against Paraguay at the Montego Bay Sports Complex, Rachel Jones might just have forced her way into today’s starting line-up for the second game in the series after impressing.

Jones added a spark off the bench as the Jamaican team lagged in the second half. She combined well with Deneisha Blackwood in her cameo as Jamaica won the game 1-0.

“This is why we brought her in, we know she has some tools,” said Reggae Girlz Head Coach Lorne Donaldson after the game.

“We are always looking for good left-sided players and I thought she came in and did very, very well for herself.”

With the team expected to be rotated after Thursday’s game and with spots still open for the squad to the Fifa World Cup in Australia/New Zealand next year, Jones may have pencilled in her name on the team.

“We have to get her more into the system and more into what we are doing, but she has a good pedigree growing up… she was injured but we brought her in and we will get her fitter and then she can do some damage,” said Donaldson.

Jones, a former USA youth player who grew up in Georgia in the USA with her Jamaican parents and attended the University of North Carolina, was pleased with her first appearance in the black, green and gold.

“It was incredible [the] first time playing on Jamaican soil and in front of my family,” she said after the game.

She is not the first member of her family to play for Jamaica as her brother Zach played for Jamaica at Under-17 level.