Ainsley Walters, Gleaner Writer

WATERHOUSE yesterday squandered chance after chance and let in a silly goal, allowing Village United to come from behind for a 1-1 Digicel Premier League draw at Drewsland.

Kevin Lamey finished Jonathan Williams' dummy atop the 18-yard box in the 13th minute, calmly dribbling two paces forward inside the box before shooting a high shot past Jacomena Barrett to give the homesters the lead.

However, the Waterhouse striker, for whom the announcer was forced to do a double-take on the public address system after the goal, adding 'King' to Lamey, at the insistence of home fans, went for the flambouyant four minutes later and skied a volley at the far post off Williams' high cross from the left side of the box.

Village's danger man, Fabian Dawkins, who drew two yellow cards in the first 28 minutes, mesmerising Waterhouse's defenders with his dribbling skills, got a gift from makeshift-sweeper Michael Stone four minutes from the break.

Village under attack

A long ball played out of defence from the top of Village's 18-yard box by Omar Allen sent Dawkins chasing near the right side of Waterhouse's 18-yard area.

Stone, the last man back, attacked the ball and got there ahead of Dawkins.

However, he attempted to control instead of safely booting for a throw and completely missed the ball, sending Dawkins clear on goal, staring down the throat of goalkeeper Richard McCallum from the edge of the box.

The former national striker made no mistake, firing across McCallum, lodging his grounder inside the far post, much to the chagrin of what seemed like the entire Waterhouse community.

Coach Hugh 'Bingi' Blair replaced the sweeper with Damarley Oliver after the break and Stone was seen exiting the ground seven minutes inside the second half gesticulating, obviously not pleased with his substitution.

Blair afterwards said his team started well but discipline broke down at the back, which was missing regular sweeper Marco McDonald, who watched the match from the ground floor of the stands, nursing an injury.

"We started progressively and, along the way, made a mistake at the back. Indiscipline caused the goal. From now on, I will have to take some drastic decisions," he added as Waterhouse stayed sixth in the standings, moving to 23 points, six off fifth-place St Georges, who won 1-0 at Sporting Central.

Poor decisions

Stone's teammates got ample chances to undo his wrong but were let down by poor decisions in front goal.

Midfileders Vincent Earle and Irvino English, who replaced the injured pair of Hugh Howell and forward Deveron Clarke in the 54th and 59th minutes, repectively, immediately stamped their class.

However, Earle had an awkward header cleared off the line in the 77th minute after English's high shot from 20-odd yards beat Barrett off his line but not the crossbar.

The rebound fell for Earle in the six-yard box but he appeared caught in two minds and nodded a tame header, which Andre Moore cleared off the line.

Lamey, who was fractionally caught offside in the 85th minute as he rifled a shot into the net, popped up on the right side again in the third minute of stoppage time but booted what should have been the winner over the crossbar.

Village's Mervin Whyte said he was happy with the draw away from home, although the point earned was no guarantee the men from Trelawny would have improved from next-to-last, as they were awaiting the late match-up between defending champions Portmore United and third-to-last Meadhaven to know their fate.