A hat trick from captain Cleyon Brown carried Calabar High to a 3-0 win over rivals Jamaica College (JC) in the final of the Walker Cup at the National Stadium yesterday, as the Red Hills Road institution realised its dream of winning the coveted crown in honour of its recently passed coach, David 'Wagga' Hunt.

Brown netted in the 39th, 67th and 81st minutes to deny the Old Hope Road school their first hold on the trophy, while giving Calabar their second lien on the title.
"The players knew what they had to do and they came and did it for the great David Hunt," said winning coach Lijyasu Simms.

Here members of Calabar's winning team celebrate with the coveted trophy. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)

"He was a great mentor, a great coach, a father, everything. It is hard to explain, but we have done it for him," he added.
After looking the more likely to score in the first-half, JC found themselves a goal behind six minutes before the break.
However, Ramone Palmer had earlier found the net for JC 15 minutes into the match, but he was ruled offside.

The midfielder then had another gloirious opportunity on the half-hour, after he intercepted a backpass from Ricardo Lattibeaudiere, but with only goalkeeper Oneil Wilson to beat, he put his effort wide of the upright.
Calabar had good possession but rarely had a clear chance at goal.

But Brown put his team ahead after taking down a ball over the JC defence and fired an arrow-straight shot into the goal at Oliver Walker's near-post.

Calabar's Cleyon Brown acknowledges team supporters after bagging his hat-trick in his school's 3-0 win against Jamaica College in the final of the Walker Cup at the National Stadium yesterday.

Jamaica College came out in the second-half searching for an eqauliser, but fell further behind when Brown skipped around last man, Renardo Stewart, before slipping the ball past Walker in goal.

However, going two goals down did not dampen the dark-blues' spirits, as they kept driving forward and had a number of opportunties in which to get back a goal.

Robert Palmer should have reduced the deficit early in the second half, but he redirected De Andre Brown's cross just wide of the upright from six yards.

Brown then had a well-taken free kick turned out for a corner as JC stepped up their game.

David Hunt's under-study and his successor at Calabar High, Lijyasu Simms, raises his fists in triumph at the final whistle of the Walker Cup final at the National Stadium yesterday. (Photos: Garfield Robinson)

With Calabar on the back-foot, Akeem Bennett then raced into the box from midfield, but with time and space, his execution left a lot to be desired from 12 yards.

Calabar put the game out of JC's reach with nine minutes remaining when Brown took down a ball from Aljay Cole, worked his way past two defenders before poking home, albeit from a deflection.

"They came out and fight from start to finish and played like true Calabar lions... and I am very proud of the guys," Simms added.

Jamaica College's Alfred Henry said the better team on the day won.

"Congratulations to Calabar, they did well under the circumstances and I think they played harder than we did today and they deserved the win," he said.

"But the missed chances set us back a great deal and we lost one of our key players (Ramone Palmer), so that threw us off our rhythm," he added.

Hat trick hero Brown said: "This was the dream of the coach, so we had to come here and do it for him."

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