TUCKER, St James — Allan Ottey’s first Red Stripe Premier League (RSPL) three-timer led defending champions Montego Bay United (MBU) to their first win of the season when they battered Boys’ Town 4-0 in a first-round game played at WesPow Park on Sunday.

It was also the first win for new coach Carlos Garcia on Jamaican soil.

Ottey netted in the 16th, 69th and 80th minutes, the last one from the penalty spot after he was fouled, while Omar Gordon made it 2-0 in the 35th minute.

This was only MBU’s second win over Boys’ Town in their last seven games dating back to the 2012-13 season, and it avenged a 3-0 loss at Boys’ Town in the last meeting last season following two drawn results.

MBU were coming off a 3-0 loss to Waterhouse in Kingston on Thursday night, but bounced back with an impressive display that pleased the few fans who showed up.

Coach Garcia was happy for the result as well, saying the team was “still a work in progress and we will get better with each day. Today was our best result so far.”

He added he was not too displeased with the game against Waterhouse. “We had a good match in Kingston, we matched up well when it was 11 against 11, but after we went down a player it got harder.”

Boys’ Town’s coach Andrew Price, who told the Jamaica Observer they had to leave behind 10 players who were showing signs of the Chikungunya disease, said his young players got a lesson in premier league football.

“We had about 10 players out with ChikV, but we had to honour the fixtures. We came here with the available players that we had and were not good enough today,” he said.

Despite being dominated in all areas of the field Price said, “We made some effort, this wasn’t the best team but we had to play the game as we have about 30 players in the squad, but it was not a bad effort, a lot of the young players are still learning the game.”

He said they had “about seven of them on the field today and this was a good learning experience for them. We had to show them what the perils of playing in the premier league is all about… they got an opportunity…they learned that the RSPL is played at a much higher pace, a lot of them are coming from Under-21 and schoolboy football, so they got a lesson today.”

Even with his three-timer, Ottey could have scored another three, his low, hard shot flashed across Porter’s goal area in the fourth minute, but he connected on a ball that the goalkeeper had failed to punch clear and volleyed it hard back into the roof of the net to open the scoring.

Gordon, who hit one off Porter’s chest in the 19th minute, doubled the lead in the 35th minute when his powerful shot from the right flank beat Porter at his near left post after he latched onto a long pass from Lesly St Fleur, who was playing his first game.

Ottey signalled his intentions in the first minute of the second half when he forced Porter to parry a hard shot for a corner, but beat the custodian in the 69th minute when he used his speed to get by a lone defender and fired powerfully into the net.

With the Boys’ Town defence at his mercy, he then muffed two gilt-edged chances to get his three-timer, kicking high from seven yards out in the 70th minute, then headed over the bar in the 75th when St Fleur served up a delightful lob from the right side.

Defender William Richards unwittingly assisted on the three-timer goal when he dragged Ottey down just inside the penalty box and the striker dusted himself off before burying the ball into the net to Porter’s right.

Teams: Montego Bay United — Garen Downie, Lesly St Fleur (Winton Wilkinson 86th), John Barrett, Ladale Richie, Donovan Carey, Jermaine Woozencroft, Dwayne Ambusley, Graeme Green, Allan Ottey, Kemiro James (Ronaldo Rodney 74th), Omar Gordon (Kevaun Stephens 85th).

Subs not used: O’Carey Spence, Cordel Simpson, Jerome Haughton, Fabian McCarthy Booked: Gordon (34th), J Barrett (42nd)

Boys’ Town — Kirk Porter, Hugh Evans, Carlos Wright, William Richards, Victor Thompson, Daemion Benjamin, Trevin Garnett, Garfield Gillespie, Chavaney Willis (Keinan Smith 46th), Rohan Scott, Andre Dawson (Giovannie Palmer 73rd).

Subs not used: Leon Goffe Booked: Garnett (63rd), Evans (66th), Benjamin (77th), Richards (80th)

Referee: Dwight Royal

Assistant Referees: Melvin Reid, O’Jay Duhaney

Fourth Official: Veralton Nembhard

Match Commissary: Tracey Reid