D’Cup game switched after Drax Hall incident
Tomorrow’s ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel daCosta Cup quarter-final game between Marcus Garvey Technical and Manchester High has been switched from Drax Hall to the Prison Oval following Wednesday’s attack on a Garvey Maceo supporters bus.
A fifth-form student of Garvey Maceo was injured when he was hit in the face by a stone allegedly thrown by a Marcus Garvey Technical fan following Wednesday’s quarter-final game at Drax Hall that Garvey Maceo won 3-1.
George Forbes Competitions Officer at the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) told the Observer yesterday the move to Prison Oval was a result of the attack and said further actions could be taken, depending on the outcome of a Disciplinary Committee meeting to be held next week.
Orett Wallace, a vice-principal of Garvey Maceo told the Observer yesterday, that one student was injured and it took four stitches to close a wound on his head.
Wallace said there were two attacks on their convoy of two buses, the first just outside the venue and another along the road leading to Golden Grove, both times by students wearing the Marcus Garvey uniform, he claimed.
He reported that just outside the venue, stones were thrown at both buses, one coming through the window and hitting the male student.
Luckily he said a medical person was travelling with the team and a sable to apply First Aid while on the way to a medical facility.
Further up the road he said a youngster who he described as a Marcus Garvey student pulled a knife and was attempting to push it through the widows.
The bus stopped, he said and tried to quell the situation when other students in Marcus Garvey uniforms attacked them and they had to beat a hasty retreat.
The quarter-finals ends tomorrow but Marcus Garvey dropped out of contention to make it to the semi-finals for the first time after losing both Group Two games played so far.
Defending champions St James, Ben Francis KO champions Glenmuir and St Elizabeth Tech are the contenders for the two places from Group One while Garvey Maceo, Manchester and Spalding are the schools in Group Two in with a chance of making it to the semi-finals next Saturday.
