KINGSTON (Interstat) — Giovanni Taylor scored twice and Arnett Gardens pulled away from Molynes for a 4-1 victory on Monday at Sabina Park. Arnett Gardens led 2-0 at halftime, added a third goal in the 54th minute and answered Molynes’s lone goal with another score six minutes later. Taylor closed the scoring to cap the home side’s win. Arnett Gardens improved its competition record to 2 wins, 2 losses and 3 draws, and its overall record to 2 wins, 2 losses and 3 draws. Molynes fell to 1 win and 4 losses in the competition and 1 win and 4 losses across all competitions.

Taylor opened the scoring in the sixth minute. Joel Jones doubled the lead in the 26th minute. Rushike Kelson made it 3-0 in the 54th. Molynes got on the board in the 55th through Clarke. Taylor answered in the 61st with his second goal. Taylor finished with two goals in 90 minutes. Jones had one goal in 90 minutes. Kelson had one goal in 90 minutes. Taylor’s two-goal match followed a previous recent appearance at Montego Bay in which he scored once in 90 minutes.

Arnett Gardens entered the match after a 2-2 draw at Montego Bay, a scoreless home draw against Mount Pleasant, a 1-1 home draw with Portmore, a 3-2 loss at Cavalier, a 3-0 home win over Dunbeholden and a 3-2 loss at Racing United. The host had scored multiple goals in four of those six previous matches and had been held to one goal or fewer in the other two. Arnett Gardens had also conceded at least one goal in five of the six matches.

Molynes entered after a 1-0 home win over Cavalier, following a 1-0 loss at Dunbeholden, a 6-0 home loss to Racing United and a 1-0 home loss to Tru-Juice. The visitor had scored once in its previous four matches and had conceded eight goals across that stretch. Molynes had been shut out in three of those four matches.

Arnett Gardens scored three times before Molynes’s goal and added a fourth after the visitors had briefly cut into the deficit. Molynes could not build on Clarke’s finish. The result left Arnett Gardens with 2 wins, 2 losses and 3 draws in this competition and the same record across all competitions. Molynes moved to 1 win and 4 losses in this competition and 1 win and 4 losses across all competitions.

Arnett Gardens’ upcoming Premier League schedule includes a home match against Molynes United FC, a trip to Tivoli, a home match against Waterhouse, trips to Humble Lion and Treasure Beach, a home match against Chapelton and a trip to Tru-Juice. The match against Molynes United FC is listed as Arnett Gardens’ first upcoming fixture. Arnett Gardens then has matches against Tivoli, Waterhouse, Humble Lion, Treasure Beach, Chapelton and Tru-Juice.

The match produced five goals, with Arnett Gardens scoring four and Molynes scoring one. Arnett Gardens led 2-0 at halftime and 3-0 after Kelson’s 54th-minute goal. Clarke’s 55th-minute goal made it 3-1, and Taylor’s 61st-minute goal restored a three-goal lead. Taylor was the top star for Arnett Gardens. The home side’s four-goal output came from Taylor’s two goals and one each from Jones and Kelson. Molynes’s goal came from Clarke.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Arnett Gardens 2, Molynes 1. Interstat’s ELO system had projected Arnett Gardens with a 84.1 percent probability to win. Arnett Gardens had been installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of -1.5. The total score of 5 went under the over/under line of 3.5.