May 23, 2006
Columbia, S.C. – South Carolina women’s soccer player Darcel Mollon helped lead the Trinidad & Tobago national team to a berth into the Caribbean Final Round Qualification for the 2006 CONCACAF Women’s Gold Cup. Mollon scored four goals and started all three games as Trinidad & Tobago earned victories in the Group D First Round over Grenada and St. Vincent & The Grenadines at the Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar over the weekend. She scored 4 goals in the first of 3 qualifiers and started all 3 games. Mollon will be a senior this season for the Gamecocks.
Trinidad & Tobago joins Dominican Republic, Jamaica and the playoff series winner, between Haiti and Surinam, in the Caribbean Final Round set for September at a venue to be announced.
The winner of the Central American Group B along with the top two teams from the Caribbean Final Round will join Canada, Mexico and the host USA in the 2006 CONCACAF Women’s Gold CupTM in November. The six-team Women’s Gold CupTM, which will crown the CONCACAF champion, will also qualify two nations to the 2007 FIFA Women’s World Cup in China. The third-place finisher from the CONCACAF event will face an Asian team in a home-and-away playoff for the final berth to the FIFA tournament.
