THIRTY-FIVE goals were scored yesterday in the Digicel schools football championship quarter-finals, and all the pre-tournament favourites are through to the semi-finals, which will be contested on Wednesday at the Leonora Track & Field and Football Facility. In Linden, three-time defending champions and the tournament’s most decorated team; Christianburg/Wismar Secondary (Multi), inched one game closer to capturing their fourth title in five

years when they outclassed Annandale Secondary 6-0.

Multi, as they are more popularly known, will now face Waramadong in the semi-final, after the Region 7 school were too strong for Berbice High School whom they defeated 6-1.
Over on the West Coast of Demerara, another school from the hinterland, Annai Secondary, trounced Dolphin Secondary 13-0 in the opening game of a double-header while Chase Academy trounced Charity Secondary 8-1 in the other contest.

Christianburg/Wismar Secondary 6 vs Annandale 0
Watched by a huge crowd at the Wisburg Secondary School ground, the defending champions ran riot on the East Coast-based school, as the team from the mining town showed why they have played in four consecutive finals and only lost at the inaugural tournament.
Kendolph Lewis led the ‘champs’ with a hat-trick, netting in the 4th, 79th and 89th minutes while Amaniki Buntin (32nd), Antwan Gill (81st) and Jovon Babb (86th) scored a goal each.

Waramadong 6 vs Berbice High School 1
Azual Medina led the three-time runners-up Waramadong with a hat-trick (14th, 83rd and 84th) and Delmar George contributed a brace (40th and 64th). Ashton Ward also found the back of the net, scoring the game’s open goal in the sixth minute.
Shemar Arrindell was the lone goalscorer for Berbice High School – the Berbice champions.

Annai Secondary 13 vs Dolphin Secondary 0
The Region 9 champions, Annai Secondary are touted as clear favourites for the coveted title this year and in the game against Dolphin Secondary, the school showed signs of their intent to not head back into the interior without the $1M prize.
Annai’s goal rush was led by the Daniels brother Garville and Sherral who both scored six goals in the mammoth total.
Garville, who netted first in the 10th, then in the 26th, 32nd, 59th and finished his tally in the 67th minute and Sherral’s goals came in the 3rd, 15th, 53rd, 61st, 83rd and 90th minutes. Stewart Edwards scored the other goal in the eight minute.