Santos FC and Fruta Conquerors walked away with the Frank Watson Memorial under-17 and under-15 titles respectively, when the two competitions came to an end on Saturday evening at the Georgetown Football Club (GFC) Ground.Santos defeated Pele 4-3 on penalty kicks after regulation time failed to produce a winner with the score at 0-0, while Fruta Conquerors also edged Santos 4-2 on penalty kicks in the under-15 final after regulation time finished without a goal being scored.
In the Under-17 final, Leon Richardson scored from the mark with the team’s first shot from the spot, but Mario Padmore made it 1-1 for Santos.
Pele’s Akosi Jarvis and Tyrese Forde of Santos both netted in the second round to make the score line 2-2. However, Rafael Bollers of Pele shot way over the cross bar with his shot, giving Santos the edge.
Santos then capitalised on Pele’s failure as custodian Job Caesar scored.
Travis Mitchell, Pele’s fourth player to shoot from the spot was able to get Pele back on course, but Santos’ Travis Cottom scored in the fourth round.
Pele’s custodian Shamar Das then went to the penalty for his shot but it was Caesar’s and that was the end of the match.
With the win, Santos walked away with the U-17 championship trophy, team medals, complete team uniforms, two balls and a goalkeeper’s glove. Pele for their showing walked away with the runners-up accolade, team medals, complete team uniforms, two balls and a goalkeeper’s glove.
In the U-15 penalty shoot-out section, Santos started poorly as they missed their first shot and Fruta Conquerors went ahead with their shot plum on target.
After the second round of kicks, the score was 2-1 in Fruta Conquerors’ favour and Santos went further back as their third kicker missed his target and the Tucville-based side capitalised once more as they scored to take a commanding 3-1 advantage.
Santos came closer to levelling the score as they netted in their fourth round.
Fruta Conquerors then sealed the victory with their final kick.

Due to the victory, Fruta Conquerors collected the championship trophy, team medals, complete team uniforms, two balls and a goalkeeper’s glove while Santos received the runners-up accolade, team medals, complete team uniforms, two balls and a goalkeeper’s glove.

Similarly in the team’s presentation section, all the participating clubs in the event received new team uniforms both the U-15 and U-17 divisions, two balls and a goalkeeper’s glove each.

The individual section of the presentation saw Navin Naughton of Santos being crowned the U-17 most valuable player (MVP). For his showing, Naughton received a trophy and a laptop.

Also receiving awards were Leon Holder of Santos who won the best goalkeeper award and Leon Richardson of Pele who collected the highest goal scorer accolade.

In the U-15 awards, Fruta Conquerors’ Orwin Garraway walked away with a laptop and a trophy for his MVP showing while Jevon Harris of Fruta Conquerors and Ryan Dowden of Santos walked away with the best goalkeeper and highest goal scorer awards respectively.

Similarly receiving laptops for their academic achievements were Diarra Thomas of Fruta Conquerors and Stephon King of Georgetown Football Club (GFC).

In the earlier semi-final round of the U-17 section, Santos defeated Black Water by a 3-0 score line. Ronell Roberts, Shawn Mohammed and Kelsey Benjamin scored for the victors in the 13th, 32nd and 45th minutes respectively.

The second semi-final matchup of the section saw Pele defeating GFC 4-3 on penalty kicks and after normal and extra time finished 1-1.

In the earlier U-15 divisional semi-finals, Fruta Conquerors defeated arch-rivals Sunburst Camptown 2-0. Olujimi Rowe and Jeremy Garrett scored for the Tucville side in the ninth and 26th minutes correspondingly. In the second semi-final, Santos crushed Western Tigers 3-0.