JC, St George"s, Wolmer"s hunt 6th-straight win in Manning Cup

BY SHERDON COWAN

Monday, September 29, 2014    

DEFENDING champions Jamaica College are among a few top schools who will seek to secure second round berths in the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/LIME Manning Cup football competition as nine games are set to be contested today.

Jamaica College are currently atop Group G on 15 points and they should extend their lead when they face third-placed St Andrew Technical High School (STATHS) who are on seven points.

The Old Hope Road boys came out 1-0 victors when playing away to their opponents and the home advantage could now see them opening up the floodgates.

The other group game will see fifth-placed Jonathan Grant (six points) hosting Norman Manley High, who are sitting in second position on nine points.

Many-time champions St George’s College (15 points) should also extend their lead in Group A when they face the hapless Campion College, who are yet to gain a point. The ‘Georgians’ were ruthless at home when they mauled their opponents 11-1, and a similar fate seems imminent.

Meanwhile, second-placed Kingston College (nine points) will be aiming to stay close to their neighbours when they host fourth-placed Jose Marti (seven points) in the other group fixture.

In Group D, leaders Haile Selassie High (18 points) will play away to fourth-placed Bridgeport High (seven points), while second-placed Camperdown High (16 points) will have a tough game on their hands when they visit third-placed Greater Portmore (10 points). Dunoon Technical (four points) will host Papine High (three points) in a bottom-of-the-table clash.

Wolmer’s Boys (15 points) should have things their way in Group E when they visit third-placed Spanish Town High (six points) following their easy 4-0 victory when the two teams last met. Second-placed Holy Trinity (12 points) will host the struggling Trench Town (four points), who have now slipped to the bottom of the table.

All games will begin at 3:30 pm, with the exception of the Bridgeport High versus Haile Selassie encounter, which is scheduled to begin at 1:00 pm.

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JC, St George"s, Wolmer"s hunt 6th-straight win in Manning Cup

St George"s College claim first preseason title

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Sunday, August 25, 2013

ST George’s College took a maiden hold on its preseason invitational tournament after completing back-to-back wins over Manning Cup rivals Calabar High and daCosta Cup champions Glenmuir High last weekend.The Neville ‘Bertis’ Bell-coach team, which lost out on the previous two editions of the St George’s College Invitational, defeated Calabar 2-1 last Saturday and followed with a 1-0 win over Glenmuir a day later for maximum six points and the top prize of $75,000.Clarendon College, who drew 1-1 with parish rivals Glenmuir on the opening day before blanking Calabar 4-0, finished second with four points and pocketed $50,000.St George’s are the Manning Cup and all-island Olivier Shield title-holders.Bell said the third staging of the event was a success and a useful competition that provided insight for the coaching staff ahead of the start of the schoolboy football season, which is set for September.“It was good and it came off beautifully and it’s an official tournament, so there were official referees, and so forth. There was total sponsorship to the tune of about $200,000. We had good teams coming in and it was certainly good for us and we got what we wanted out of it,” he told the Jamaica Observer.Sports gear outfitters Macron/Kitstar were the major sponsors of the tournament.Wolmer’s Boys’ beat St George’s College 3-1 in the deciding match of the inaugural tournament in 2011, while Jamaica College won last year’s competition.

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St George"s College claim first preseason title