MARVIN Morgan and Romario Jones both struck at the Harbour View Mini-Stadium to lead St George’s College to a 2-1 win and a 5-3 aggregate thumping of St Elizabeth Technical (STETHS) to claim the all-island Olivier Shield schoolboy title yesterday.

Deshorn Forbes scored the lone goal for STETHS, who last won the title in 1999. Defending champions St George’s, who were copping their 12th title, won the thrilling first leg, 3-2, at Santa Cruz last Wednesday.

The Light Blues, playing without injured leading goalscorer McKauly Tulloch, picked up from where they left off in the first leg by playing short passes to keep possession away from the Santa Cruz-based daCosta Cup winners.

St George’s, while not as spectacular as on occasions earlier in the season, proceeded to miss several chances before finally going ahead when Morgan nodded into the net from close range in the 13th minute.

During this time STETHS appeared lethargic and relied on long passes to Denmark Gillings and Brown who, like in the first leg, was showing signs of not being 100 per cent fit.

The St George’s defence was well marshalled by Carl Reid, Oneil Fisher and Deshawn Forbes and gave neither attackers the slightest sniff on goal.

In fact, the boys from North Street should have stretched their lead when Morgan missed the easiest chance of the game in the 39th minute when his side-footed volley went high from six yards, with goalkeeper Gregory McKogg at his mercy.

STETHS came out in the second half with a bit more purpose, but found themselves two goals down when Morgan squared for Jones, who, with a defender at his back, took a touch and calmly tapped past McKogg from inside the six-yard box in the 51st minute.

Brown then gave his team a ray of hope at the other end when he crashed in a right-footer from 22 yards past Windell Reid after exchanging incisive passes with Jason McLean in the 71st minute.

The Rural Area champions could have then equalised and pulled back the overall deficit to just one goal when a thunderous free kick from Kevon Farquharson smashed into the the crossbar and back into play, to the relief of a bewildered Reid.

Morgan’s trickery then helped St George’s to create a few chances late in the game, but McKogg was equal to the task and ensured his team did not suffer an embarrassing defeat.

Coach Neville Bell, while admitting his team were not at their best on the day, was relieved to have secured the title.

“I dont think it was one of our better games. Thanks to God we got the result that we wanted. Congrats to STETHS because they had to attack. I think that’s what let them down. They had to attack and I think we got some room and we exploited that,” he explained.

STETHS’ Andrew Edwards said his team’s poor first-half showing was crucial to the outcome of the match, but expressed pride in their overall efforts.

“We wanted to play them a lot closer to try and eliminate their possession play. We wanted to get the first goal in the game to tie… unfortunately, we came out very very flat. These things do happen and nonetheless I’m very proud of the players,” he said.

“Obviously, the St George’s team is a better quality team than us, especially in possession of the football… and they seem to be far more mature than our players are, so we give them a lot of credit,” Edwards added.