Nine-star Ghana thrash Botswana

Ghana are now two games away from making their debut at the FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup finals.

The Black Princesses reached the last four of the African qualifiers on Sunday with a 9-0 thrashing of Botswana at the Ohene Djan Stadium in Accra.

Despite missing the trio of Portia Boakye, Anita Amankwah and Doreen Awuah, all included in the senior squad for the Olympic play-off against Brazil on Saturday, Ghana were on fire.

Agnes Aduako stole the show as she found target four times for Ghana.

Ghana thus complete the two-leg fixture by 13-1 aggregate scoreline after having won the reverse fixture 4-1 in Gaborone, a fortnight ago.

With two spots reserved for Africa at the World Cup, Ghana showed intent on qualifying for their debut World Cup in the age competition right from kick off.

Three minutes into the start of the game and the home team opened their scoring account.

Grace Asare scored the opener for Ghana to set the stage for a real bashing.

Agnes Aduako started her goal scoring run in the 20th minute to make it 2-0 before Ibrahim Faisa stroked in the third goal to end the half, 3-0 up for Ghana.

Back from recess, Agnes Aduako finished her scoring run within seven minutes starting from the 50th, 55th and 57th minutes.

Seven minutes later, Florence Dadson, who got a brace, took over from Aduako when she made it 7-0 before adding a personal second in the 82nd minute as the score cards read 8-0 forf the Black Princesses.

A minute to full time and Ghana sealed the game when Elizabeth Addo struck the 9th goal of the afternoon to qualify the Black Princesses for the last four.

Africa has two slots at the World Cup to be hosted by Chile, which comes up between December 30 to January 17, 2009.