CLEAN SWEEP: Members of the victorious Glenmuir High football team celebrate with the coveted Olivier Shield all-island schoolboy trophy after defeating Excelsior High 2-0 at Brancourt in Clarendon yesterday. daCosta Cup champions Glenmuir also captured the Ben Francis KO title. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)

Excelsior High may have gone through the Manning Cup undefeated, but they again met their match in rural area champions Glenmuir yesterday, who blanked them 2-0 in the second leg of the Olivier Shield at Brancourt in Clarendon.

Goals in each half from strikers Steven Morrissey and Cornell Learmond (penalty) saw the Jackie Walters-coached side winning the two-way tie 4-1 on aggregate.

Glenmuir, who earlier this season won the daCosta Cup for the first time in their history, and also copped the Ben Francis KO crown, made a clean sweep of all titles available to them, thus achieving the coveted "triple crown".

Victorious coach Walters said complacency was his biggest concern entering yesterday's second leg after Glenmuir's 2-1 first-leg victory. However, he thought his boys did what was necessary to win.

"One has to be careful about complacency. We knew Excelsior were coming with a level of determination and we had to make absolutely sure we made no mistakes," he said.

"Coming off a high on Saturday... it was hard to ask this kind of age-group to rise to that level again, but I think they made an honest attempt and I congratulate them," said the veteran conditioner.

Excelsior's Leebert Halliman thought his team could have done better with their chances: "It you look at the first 40 minutes you could see we were on top," he said.

"But in the second half we missed a clear chance, gave up a penalty and then missed another easy chance, but that's part of the game," he added.

Both teams looked lethargic at the start and the anticipated all-out Excelsior attack did not materialise.

Both teams held possession well but lacked penetration, and chances were scarce. However, Morrissey, who was guilty of a number of missed chances at the National Stadium on Saturday, opened the scoring after 37 minutes.

Learmond stole the ball from Sheldon Gordon on the right and delicately passed to the onrushing Morrissey, who slotted past Damion Reid in goal.

The prolific Morrissey crashed a right-footer against the upright two minutes later and Learmond hit the other upright with a header on the stroke of half-time.

The hosts came out confidently against their slow-moving opponents in the second period, which saw Ricardo Ximines being the visitors' most creative player. But he lacked the support in attack.

Glenmuir, in the meantime, were enjoying their game and after some threatening moves, went further ahead when Morrissey was brought down inside the penalty box 20 minutes into the half.

Learmond buried the penalty kick to put the game out of the Manning Cup champions' reach.

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