Tutorial High lift PSP trophy

TUTORIAL High School were able to hold off a fast-finishing Queenstown Community High to win the inaugural Premiership Sports Promotion Schools Under-17 football tournament by a 3-2 margin, at the Ministry of Education ground on Sunday. 

Tutorial dominated the first half of the game but their opponents rallied back to almost create an upset in the dying stages of the exciting game. In overcast conditions David Coates, who took home the MVP and Highest Goals Scorer award, opened his team’s account in the fifth minute when his shot from 20 yards out eluded the grasp of the goalkeeper.
Coates followed up with another strike in the 25th minute to have Tutorial comfortably placed at 2-0. Queenstown goalkeeper Dos Santos Williamson was then forced to work overtime and he produced several sublime saves to keep Coates and company at bay.
Upon the resumption, Tutorial made it 3-0 as Rondel Brandis found the net. However, Queenstown shifted gear and seemed reenergised when diminutive striker Kelsey Benjamin fired in his team’s opener in the 65th minute.
An all-out attack allowed for Emmanuel Harper to bring Queenstown closer with a goal in the 70th minute.
Tutorial won $200 000 for placing first while the runners-up received $150 000. In the playoff for third place North Ruimveldt Multilateral beat St George’s 4-2 on penalty kicks to cart off $100 000.
St George’s received $75 000. Addressing the gathering at the presentation ceremony, Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Steve Ninvalle lamented the absence of parents throughout the tournament.
He, however, congratulated the promoters and urged that the tournament be an annual event.

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