ST JAMES, Jamaica — Cornwall College and Bridgeport both won their first Flow Super Cup games on Friday’s opening night at the Montego Bay Sports Complex in Catherine Hall and booked their places in next weekend’s quarter-final round.

Jourdaine Fletcher scored a hat-trick to lead former daCosta Cup champions Cornwall College to an easy 3-0 victory over Denham Town High and took the winning run to 14 games straight while former Manning Cup winners Bridgeport eked out a hard fought 1-0 win over Dinthill Technical in the first game of the double-header.

They joined other first-round winners Wolmer’s Boys and Excelsior High who scored big wins over Little London High and Ocho Rios High, respectively, in the Sabina Park double-header.

Cornwall College, who were beaten in the first round in 2014 by eventual champions Jamaica College, got past the first stage this time as Fletcher scored in the 16th, 37th and 60th minutes over an overmatched Denham Town High.

The West Kingston team did get one chance but hit the crossbar deep into the second half after Cornwall College had made wholesale changes.

In the first game, a 20th-minute penalty conversion from Shakoon Powell was the difference between the teams as Bridgeport handed Dinthill their first loss of the season.

Bridgeport’s assistant coach Jason Grant told OBSERVER ONLINE afterwards that they were “elated” with the victory and “we stood up to the test and produced the result that we needed”.

He said they knew coming into the game that Dinthill was “a quality team but we were prepared and we got what we wanted”.

Kevin Williams, the Dinthill coach who was losing for the first time since he took over the team this season, said they made the adjustment at half time to be more offensive, “we put more people in attack and we created the chances we needed but we just could not finish, we did not execute well”.

Bridgeport took the lead when Powell slotted home from the penalty spot after Dinthill’s Richard Reeves had dragged down Javaughn Dunn just inside the 18-yard area.

That was the last scoring chance for Bridgeport as Dinthill dominated the possession and created several scoring chances, especially in the second half when they had the Manning Cup team hanging on.

Dinthill dictated the possession in the second half and should have won easily but for poor finishing, hitting the frame of the goal on no fewer than four occasions, twice in the space of two minutes late in the game.

In time added on Antonio Roberts, a second-half substitute, had two chances form close range on both sides of the six yards box but all his efforts came up short.

Paul Reid