The win puts them six points clear of three teams – Utulei Youth, Pago A and Lion Heart – for the coveted No. 1 spot for the group with only three rounds to go.
In other Pool A games played out on the same day it was Utulei Youth 3-1 Lion Heart, PanSa 1-1 Vaiala Tongan while Vaitogi United was idle with a bye.
In Pool B games it was Taputimu Youth 1-0 Tafuna Jets, Pago Youth B 3-1 Black Roses and Atu’u Broncos 9-0 Green Bay while Ilaoa & To’omata had a bye round.
POOL A
SKBC, current National League champs, took a commanding lead behind gunslinger Gun Kang who completed a hat-trick in a span of six minutes – giving his team a 3-0 lead.
Five minutes into the match Kang netted his first goal, four minutes later he made it a brace before completing his hat-trick two minutes after scoring the second.
But Pago A, a four-time National League champion, did not panic as Ryan Samuelu put his team on the board in the 19th minute. In the 33rd Alatina Vaiali’i cut the deficit down to one for a 3-2 showing going into the break.
Samuelu tied the game early in the second half bringing the score to 3-3, but with six minutes remaining on the clock Thamer Alshehri provided the game winner for SKBC.
SKBC leads the group with 12 points, followed by Utulei Youth, Pago Youth A, Lion Heart (in order of a differential in goals) with six points each. Vaiala Tongan is fifth with two, Vaitogi is sixth with 1 point and PanSa rounds out the group in 7th place with 1 point.
Only the top team in the group advances to the Championship game against Pool B’s top seed on 14 December, 2013.
POOL B
Ilaoa & To’omata and Taputimu Youth are tied with seven points each to lead Pool B with the former getting the edge for the No. 1 spot in terms of goal differential of 9-8.
These two teams atop Pool B will duke it out this coming Saturday in a fight for sole possession of the No. 1 seed.
Atu’u is third with five points, also edging Pago B for the No. 3 seed because of the goals differential (9-0) tiebreaker.
In fifth place is Black Roses with four points, followed by No. 6 Tafuna Jets with three and Green Bay sitting at No. 7 with 0 points.
Match Schedule
Saturday, 23 November
11.15am
Pago Youth vs Green Bay
12.30pm
Taputimu Youth vs Ilaoa & To’omata (Field 1)
Black Roses vs Atu’u Broncos (Field 2)
1.45pm
Pago Youth vs Vaitogi United (Field 1)
Lion Heart vs Vaiala Tongan (Field 2)
Bye
FC SKBC and Tafuna Jets