The Tribune

By TENAJH SWEETING

Tribune Sports Reporter

tsweeting@tribunemedia.net

The Bahamas senior men’s national beach soccer team bounced back from an opening night loss last night at the 2025 CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship at the Malcolm Park Beach Soccer Stadium.

The “Junkanoo Beach Boyz” handed the USA their first loss of the tournament by defeating them 3-2 in their second game of the tournament. 

The USA’s Cody Valcarcel got the visitors on the board first at the 7th minute of the first period for a 1-0 edge.

Brandon Adderley used his chest to get the ball in the air and converted on a bicycle kick at the 4th minute mark of the second period to level the score at 1-1 for The Bahamas. 

Early in the third period, the USA’s goalkeeper failed to properly get the ball back into play and The Bahamas’ Wood Julmis took advantage to score an open goal and take the lead 2-1.

Timothy Munnings Jr helped to pile on for the host team at the 4th minute of the third period. He dribbled past two of the USA’s defenders and nailed a tough goal for a 3-1 cushion late in the third period.

Valcarcel connected on another goal for the brace at the third minute of the third period but the USA could not get over the hump in the end.

Veteran player Lesly St Fleur talked about how it felt to pull off the win after narrowly falling to Panama on Tuesday night.

“It was a good win tonight, coming off a defeat last night we had to come out tonight and leave it all out there on the pitch and win,” he said.

St Fleur talked about the difference between game one against Panama and last night’s contest against the USA. “It happens— just was a bad day in the office so I had to come out tonight and redeem myself and play a good game and that’s what happened and the team also did a great job,” he said.

The Bahamas will now look ahead to their matchup against Trinidad and Tobago tonight at 7pm.

Panama leads the Group B standings with 4 points and one win. The Bahamas is in the second position with 3 points and one win and the USA is in third at one point.

Eight nations are in the hunt for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup qualification.

The top two nations will have the opportunity to advance out of the CONCACAF Beach Soccer Championship.

The group stage continues until tonight and will be followed by the knockout round on March 15.

The third place match will be played on March 16 along with the finals.

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