WATERHOUSE defeated 10-man Boys’ Town 3-0 to reach the final of the Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Jackie Bell Knockout football competition in a double header semi-final feature game at Drewsland on Sunday.

Second-half goals from Romario Campbell in the 63th, Jermaine ‘Tuffy’ Anderson in the 66th and Juvaune Benjamin in the 79th sent Waterhouse into the final of KSAFA’s flagship tournament where they will now face Barbican, who in the opening game turned back many-time winners Harbour View 2-0 with goals from Lennox Russell and Bebeto McDonald.

Waterhouse, a four-time winner of the Jackie Bell Knockout, had to work overtime for the better part of an hour before they could subdue a team that they have never beaten before in this tournament since its inception in 1989. During that time Waterhouse lived dangerously even though playing against a team that lost key defender Hugh Evans after he was red-carded for dangerous play in minute 13.

Yet at no time did it appear that Boys’ Town were the weakened team as they played much better than the team at full strength. However, as play deepened Waterhouse came into their own and Campbell in one of his classic right to left runs in the area scored with a punishing left-footed shot that left goalkeeper Kirk Porter grounded to his line.

t was only a matter of time before the valiant Boys’ Town caved in and three minutes on Anderson to put Waterhouse two goals up. “It was a good game to win,” Waterhouse coach Anthony Patrick declared. “But the first half we were a little short of expectations.

However, during the break we discussed our approach play by asking skipper Damarley Samuels to play a little higher and with more thrust in our play and we got three goals.” Meanwhile, losing coach Andrew Price thought his team gave a good effort, despite being a man down.

“We were always up against it losing a player that early in the game, but nonetheless we played stout-hearted throughout the game until our defensive discipline just went away in the final 20 minutes of the game and we gave up three goals.”