New Silvercity thrash Friendship 5-0; Mackenzie High blast Queenstown 6-1

… McAllister, Primo net doubles

A DOUBLE by New Silvercity Secondary’s Tyric McAllister and a double by Mackenzie High captain Kellon Primo helped the Linden teams to turn back the challenge from their opponents Friendship Secondary and Queenstown Secondary respectively, when the Kashif and Shanghai Schools Christmas Football championship, now dubbed the Chico Elite championship, continued at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground in Linden.New Silvercity thrashed Friendship 5-0 while Mackenzie High blasted Queenstown 6-1 in a ruthless display of fine tactical football to the amazement of the onlookers who marvelled at the quality of play.
The games were played on a heavy MSC outfield caused by constant rainfall over the past week
In the first game on a soggy outfield both sides initially played well within themselves, but it was Silvercity Secondary which gained the ascendancy when McAllister completed a good piece of play which started on the right wing to score in the 16th minute.
Building on that opening goal McAllister doubled the score in the 33rd minute for his team and by the time the celebration was done, New Silvercity added another goal, this time in the 34th minute through Omalli Webb from beyond the 18-yard box.
As play resumed in the second half, New Silvercity maintained their dominance and David Sanchara netted goal number four in the 62nd minute for the home team, before the game was sealed through a penalty after a handled ball, with Mark McLean getting the goal from the penalty spot.
The second game was also well received by the spectators who had saw some quality play from both teams early on.
Akeem Higgins opened the scoring for Mackenzie High in the 20th minute and ten minutes later that score was increased through Andel Mendonca and the first half ended 2-0 in favour of the Linden team.
On resumption, it was not until the 72nd minute when the captain of the hosts, Kellon Primo, moved from his central defender position to shoot home a fantastic shot from about 20 yards out.
Taffon Alexander then made it 4-0 through another spectacular drive in the 75th minute and Primo registered his brace four minutes later.
Jason Williams reduced the deficit with one for the Queenstown side in the 87th minute, but the game was over bar the shouting when Anthony Allicock finished off the game with goal number six in the 90th minute as Mackenzie High earned a place in the next round and will face Leonora Secondary on Sunday at the MSC ground.
Meanwhile, two matches were set for the Den Amstel ground on the West Coast of Demerara, where President’s College, who won the prize for Best Dressed School at the March Past, Stewartville Secondary will collide in the first encounter at 14:00hrs and in the second game which kicks off at 16:00hrs, Annandale Secondary from the East Coast of Demerara take on Uitvlugt Secondary,