DEFENDING champions Denbigh High and Holmwood Technical will face different opponents as the 2014 ISSA/Digicel Rural High Schoolgirls Junior and Senior Leagues continue this morning at The Queen’s Court and GC Foster College, respectively.

Denbigh will take on Marymount High at The Queen’s High School Courts at 10:30, while Holmwood go up against Charlemont High at 11:30 at GC Foster College.

Denbigh are currently unbeaten from their zone.

However, the May Pen aggregation should begin their second-round encounter on a winning note.

The second round promises to be very interesting as the teams will be facing each other for the first time this season and are placed in four groups of six teams each with the winners and runners-ups advancing to the quarter-finals to be played in a knockout format.

Some of the fancied teams in this round are Manchester High, winners of the Rural Opening Rally for Juniors and Seniors; defending Senior League champions Holmwood Technical; defending Junior League champions Denbigh, along with danger teams Herbert Morrison, Anchovy High, STETHS and Bellefield.

The high-riding Titchfield Junior and Senior teams, who did extremely well last year in placing third and fourth in the Junior and Senior competitions, respectively, could be the most dangerous school. So far they have won all their preliminary matches by wide margins.

Other matches scheduled for Juniors today are Frome High vs Albert Town at 10:00; Petersfield High vs St Hilda’s at 11:30 at MoBay Boys’ Club Court; Bishop Gibson vs Anchovy High at St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) at 10:30; Hampton High vs Herbert Morrison at 10:00; Mount Alvernia High vs St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) at 11:30; St James High vs Manchester High at 1:00 at Whithorne Court; Hampton High vs Dinthill High at 10:30; Bellefield High vs Guy’s Hill High at 10:30 at G,C, Foster College; Central High vs Titchfield High; St. Mary High vs Glenmuir High at 12:15 at The Queen’s School.

In Seniors play, Petersfield High vs Albert Town High at 10:45; Frome High vs St Hilda’s High at 12:45 at MoBay Boys’ Club Court; May Day High vs Anchovy High at 11:30 at STETHS; Lacovia High vs Herbert Morrison at 10:45; Mount Alvernia High vs St Elizabeth Technical High (STETHS) at 12:45; William Knibb High vs Manchester High at 1:45 at Whithorne Court; Knox College vs Dinthill High at 13:30 at GC Foster College; Edwin Allen High vs St Thomas Technical at 11:30; St Mary High vs Denbigh High at 11:30; Kellits High vs Titchfield High at 1:00; Oracabessa High vs Glenmuir High at 1:00 at The Queen’s School.

— Gerald Reid