FOLLOWING their performances in the preliminary and round of 16 in this year’s Petra Organisation/Milo Under-20 Inter-School Football Championships, intense rivalry will unfold at the Ministry of Education ground today, when the remaining eight teams do battle in the quarterfinals.First up at 11:00hrs is the clash between tournament favourites Chase Academy and underdogs Queenstown Secondary, with Isaiah Reddy, Marlon Nedd and Kareem Knights leading Chase’s challenge against the likes of Kelsey Benjamin, Wallison DeSantos and Cordell Charles, who will lead Queenstown’s charge into the semifinals.

The second quarterfinal which kicks off at 12:30hrs, will see St Joseph, who upset former champions St George’s High in the last round, take on Morgan Learning Centre, with Mario King, Phillip Marignan, Dwight Ferguson and Lemar Williams taking charge of St Joseph High.
How well they cope against the never-say-die attitude of Ronaldo Dover, Keyron Solomon, Wayne Murray and Randy Layne of Morgan Learning Centre is left to be seen, but one way or the other, whether it is through regulation-time goals or penalty kicks, one of the two will be making their exit from the tournament.
The third quarter-final match today can be deemed a scorcher, and kicks off at 14:00hrs, with defending champions Lodge Secondary putting their chances of defending their title on the line, when they face up against St Mary’s Secondary.
Jarell Grannum, Keyoma Crawford, Ryan ‘Boom Boom’ Hackett, Shamar Dover and Stephan McLean will all be part of Lodge’s lineup, looking to turn back the challenges of St Mary’s Rafael Charles, Curtis Kellman, Kareem Caines and Rafael Bollers.
Carl Griffith is not a one-man army, but in this tournament, he has been leading North Ruimveldt Multilateral School admirably and is expected to do so when they go up against Dolphin Secondary, who will depend on Dakhawn Matthews and Leon Richardson for a victory when the two sides meet at 15:30hrs in the final quarter-final fixture of the day.