… Houston stun Mercy Wings
IT was a goal fest at the Grove Community Centre ground yesterday, as Covent Garden Secondary School, known more for their cricketing ability, swamped Academy of Professional Studies (APS) 18-1, when action in the second annual Digicel nationwide Inter-Secondary School football competition continued. Four matches were scheduled for yesterday, but only three were played as two of the venues were unfit for the game, while another team failed to make an appearance, handing their opponents a comfortable walkover.
Ken Agard, Treon Gaskin and Dominique Garnett got hat-tricks for Covent Garden, with Agard scoring his in the 4th, 22nd and 67th minute, Gaskin in the 16th, 56th and 65th minutes, while Garnett got his in the 12th, 24th and 55th minutes of play.
Double strikes from Omali Henry (31st, 36th) and Trevor Jones (41st, 49th), coupled with Kester Joseph (21st), Roderick McKenzie (39th), Sheldon Chapman 6th, Romell McLean 47th and a defensive error, accounted for Covent Garden’s goals, while David Coates scored APS’ solitary strike in the 57th minute.
At the Camptown Football Club ground, the venue was not conducive for the fixture between Ascension Secondary and Freeburg Secondary and it was switched to the Georgetown Football Club ground, but the latter did not show up.
At the Kuru Kuru Cooperative College ground, the contest between Camille’s Institute and Friendship Secondary was postponed due to the unfit condition of the venue and this will be replayed today at the Grove Community Centre ground.
At Tucville, Houston Secondary made Mercy Wings paid for their blunders by inflicting a 2-0 defeat on their more illustrious opponents, thanks to goals from Kevin Douglas (52nd) and Shaquille Grant in the 60th minute, while their custodian Rudolph Doobay, denied Mercy Wings from recording a single strike.