All-St Catherine affair for South Central semis
HAYES, Clarendon — It will be a all-St Catherine affair for the semi-finals of the South Central Confederation Super League after Naggo Head and Tru-Juice clinched the two remaining spots from Group A to join Meadows and Newlands in the last-four at the weekend.
Naggo Head, a former Premier League outfit, thrashed Manchester’s Downs FC 4-0 on Sunday at the Downs Community Centre to finish as group winners on 30 points, four more than Tru-Juice, who ended 0-0 with Original Hazard at the Curatoe Hill playing field on Saturday.
Nicholas Forbes with a brace in the eighth and 61st minutes, Sheldon Hopkins in the 28th and Carlos Barrett in the 49th were on target for Naggo Head, who have now scored 12 goals in their last three games, while conceding one.
Meadows, who finished the preliminary round as the only unbeaten team in the competition, had book their place in the semis some four rounds ago as winners of Group B with 36 points, while Newlands took the runner-up spot with a 2-1 beating of Bodles last week to end on 24 points.
In 14 games played, Meadows, a Super League debutant, won 11 games and drew three, while scoring a league-high 29 goals with 10 against.
The semi-final line-up will now see Meadows going up against Tru-juice, while Naggo Head will play Newlands in a double-header at the Spanish Town Prison Oval on Sunday, April 25.
In other games played at the weekend, Newlands and Monymusk FC ended goalless at Newlands, while it was 1-1 between Tafari Lions and Wood Hall at the Turners Oval, as the preliminary round came to an end.
— Oshane Tobias
