SAN JOSE, Costa Rica -- As far as forwards are concerned, Honduras has produced some of the best in the CONCACAF region over the past few decades.

Carlos Pavon, Wilmer Velasquez, Milton Nuñez, Eduardo Bennett, David Suazo - the names ring out in the annals of the region's history as some of the more fearsome strikers a CONCACAF team could come up against -- in either World Cup qualifying, Gold Cup, or regional club play.

In 2013, an ascending Honduran team on the road to the Hexagonal seems to have found yet another answer to the goal scoring question - Jerry Bengtson. In fact the regularity with which Bengtson has struck for Honduras is such that he's scored goals in his past five international tournaments.

"Thank God we've been able to get those goals, but we have to keep working so the goals will keep coming," Bengtson said, after Honduras topped Group B at the UNCAF Copa Centroamericana with a draw against Panama on Tuesday night.

The international goal scoring streak began at the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup, when Bengtson scored three goals (2 v Grenada, 1 v Costa Rica), before putting away three more at the Olympic Games in 2012 (2 v Morocco, 1 v Spain).

In the meantime, the Honduran has scored five goals during the 2014 World Cup qualifying process (2 v Cuba, 3 v Canada), and already has one at the UNCAF event.

Nevertheless, the forward who came up through the youth ranks of CD Vida in La Ceiba, before moving to Motagua - where he added two more goals in the 2011/12 edition of the CONCACAF Champions League - says that impressive curriculum is not yet enough to merit comparisons to Honduras' best all-time forwards.

"We're still working little by little, but there's a long road still to go, a lot of goals to score," he said. "The goals give you confidence, but we still haven't achieved anything, we have to keep working."

For Bengtson and Honduras, the work continues at the Copa Centro, where the team has made it to the semifinals by winning Group B and leaving in its wake the likes of Panama, a strong rival for one of the region's three direct passes to the FIFA 2014 World Cup.

Bengtson says that a second straight World Cup for Honduras is a reachable goal, since the generation coming up offers a lot of interesting traits, and the steps achieved thus far by Honduras are just a beginning.

"There are a lot of good young players coming up, who want to do things well, and that helps us," said the 25-year-old, who plays his club football with the USA's New England Revolution.

The road for Bengtson and Honduras in the Copa Centroamericana continues on Friday at the Estadio Nacional in San Jose, Costa Rica, where the Catrachos take on the tournament's surprise package, Belize, at 5:30 p.m. local time.