WATERFORD High condemned Kingston College (KC) to their second consecutive defeat in Group A of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports’ Association (ISSA)/LIME Manning Cup football competition with a 4-2 win at Clovelly Park, yesterday.

The win propelled Waterford to second place on 13 points with a slim chance of advancing to the second round, provided that Campion College can hold or defeat KC (12 points) in their rescheduled fixture set to take place on Monday. Group winners St George’s College went down 0-1 to Jose Marti in the other game.

Shane Watson with a brace in the eighth and 67th minutes, Anthony Seymore in the third and Javaughn Jones (52nd) took the game out of the reach of KC, who got their goals through Kashane Jones (ninth minute) and Lincoln Henry (89th).

The mouth-watering encounter lived up to expectation and was nothing short of exciting. The St Catherine-based outfit went in front very early when Seymore headed home from a corner. Waterford went 2-0 up five minutes later when Watson found himself unmarked and easily slotted home.

KC pulled one back a minute later through captain Jones, who rifled a left-footed shot past goalkeeper Sheldon McNaughton.

Waterford began the second half more positively and extended their lead after a sequence of five passes was beautifully finished off by Jones, who fired home a half volley from just outside the 18-yard box to make it 3-1.

Waterford continued their consistent pressure which was well backed up by stout defending and soon they were 4-1 up when Watson outpaced a defender and fired through the legs of the hapless Trevaughn Brown in goal for KC.

Henry fired home from close range, but it was too little too late for the North Street boys who were suffering their third defeat of the season.

Winning coach Jermaine Thomas believed that it was very unfortunate for his team who will be waiting nervously and hoping the results from KC’s next game go in their favour.

“We have been playing some good football all season, even though we have not been scoring. Luckily we came here today (yesterday) and we got four goals, which is the most important thing, and it is also good to see the guys scoring, so we will be taking some positives from this going forward and definitely hoping for the best,” he told the Jamaica Observer.

Meanwhile, Neil Harrison, who took over from Lenworth Hyde, who was sacked Monday evening, told the Jamaica Observer that the team may still be “suffering” from their previous loss to neighbours St George’s College.

“I don’t know the team very well because I was just called in to fill the gap of the coach that was there before. We tried to put a system in place that they would be comfortable with and I think they tried very well, but learning a system over one day is not good enough,” he added.