KINGSTON, Jamaica — Jamaica got off to a winning start to the final round of Concacaf World Cup qualifying with a comfortable 4-0 win over hosts Bermuda at the Dame Flora Duffy National Sports Centre in Hamilton, Bermuda on Friday.

Leading 2-0 at half time with goals from Damion Lowe and Renaldo Cephas, Kasey Palmer and substitute Shamar Nicholson both scored as Jamaica beat Bermuda for the sixth time in eight games and extended their unbeaten record.

Palmer, who had a good game, scored in the 58th minute when he scored after a solo effort, picking up a pass from Isaac Hayden at half line, muscled through the Bermuda team, drifted into the middle of the field before beating goalkeeper Dale Eve to his right. low into the corner.

Nicholson, who had missed the previous round of games and came on to replace Bailey-Tye Cadamarteri, scored a bullet header from a corner in the 90 th minute.

Earlier, stand-in captain Damion Lowe and Renaldo Cephas gave Jamaica the cushion at half time.

Lowe got the Jamaicans off to a fast start when he scored in the sixth minute when he picked up a loose ball from Jamaica’s first corner and fired into low into the right side of the Bermuda goal leaving goalkeeper Dale Eve flat footed at the other side of the goal.

Cephas doubled the advantage in the 26th minute when he dribbled down the left side, cut back between two defenders and shot into unguarded goal with Eve out of position.

Twenty-year-old Cadamarteri who was making his debut, was unlucky not to have scored at least two goals in the first half alone; beating Eve in the 37 th minute on the right and fired just wide of the far post and then hit the outside of the left upright minutes later.

-Paul A Reid