PANAMA CITY, Panama -- Kaheem Parris scored twice late to boost 10-man Jamaica’s hopes of advancing in the 2017 CONCACAF Under-17 Championship with a 3-1 victory over El Salvador in Group C on Wednesday afternoon.

Ricardo McIntosh also scored early at the Estadio Maracana for the Reggae Boyz, who earned three points despite playing the final 26 minutes without the ejected Calwayne Allen.

Ronald Cerritos leveled from the penalty spot early in the second half for El Salvador, which -- like Jamaica -- scored its first goal of the tournament, but was eliminated from contention.

Jamaica lost 5-0 to the United States and El Salvador fell 6-0 to Mexico in the teams’ opening matches. With only one group game remaining, the Jamaicans still have a chance to advance with a good result Saturday against Mexico, which will face the U.S. later on Wednesday.

It did not look that way early in the second half when Cerritos earned and converted a deserved penalty in the 54th minute, as part of a stretch in which the Cuscatlecos were on the ascendancy.

Then the Reggae Boyz were reduced to 10 men after Allen’s second bookable offense, a swinging-legged challenge on Kevin Menjivar in the 64th minute.

But Jamaica persisted, and pressure from Parris created a penalty-area scramble that ultimately resulted in a handball on Giovanni Avila.

Jairo Guardado dove to make an initial save on Parris' effort, but the forward was first to the rebound and emphatically drove it into the net to make it 2-1 four minutes from time

Parris then had a cleaner finish five minutes later, taking a free kick from inside the penalty arc and sneaking a low shot around the defensive wall and inside the lower right corner.

McIntosh put Jamaica ahead in the 17th minute on a goal that owed to his own persistence.

After a Salvadoran challenge that seemed to send the ball safely back toward its own back line, Diego Chevez and Avila struggled to decide who should clear it out of danger. McIntosh pressured and eventually squeezed inside them to take the ball, side stepped charging goalkeeper Guardado and tucked his finish into an open goal.

Cerritos pulled El Salvador level when he earned a spot kick by inducing Kimani Gibbons into a foul, driving his penalty low and hard beyond Daniel Russell’s dive.