Clarendon College pulled off the first upset win of the 2016 Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA)/FLOW Super Cup competition when they pipped former champions Jamaica College 1-0 in a thrilling encounter at Sabina Park yesterday.

Captain Creggton Charlton got the all-important strike in the 50th minute to book a quarter-final date with Excelsior for the unseeded Chapleton-based team.

Clarendon College should now feel a sense of accomplishment having turned the tables on Jamaica College, who they lost to by an identical score line in the 2014 Olivier Shield final.

Meanwhile, Kingston College were leading Vere Technical 1-0 in the feature contest of the double-header at press time with a goal from Omar Thompson in the 30th minute.

Earlier in the curtain-raiser, it was an end-to-end, action-packed encounter from the first whistle with both teams giving as good as they got, but had nothing to show for it at the break.

Jamaica College gradually grabbed the ascendancy in the early exchanges and thought they had broken the deadlock when Donovan Dawkins headed in Ronaldo Brown’s free-kick from an offside position.

Dawkins went close once more in the 20th minute, but his powerfully driven shot rocketed off the left upright.

Clarendon College responded on the half-hour mark through Nickque Daley, who broke away down the left channel and should have scored, but was hesitant in pulling the trigger and was thwarted by a recovering defender.

Daley again found himself alone at goal, but was denied by tidy glove work from goalkeeper Kajay Johnson.

Clarendon College seemed to have found a liking to a steady downpour in the latter stages of the half as they applied consistent pressure in their probe for the opening goal, but lacked composure in the final third.

Clarendon College inevitably broke the deadlock five minutes into the resumption when Charlton broke down the left channel and into the box before firing a firm left-footer past Johnson.

Jamaica College pressed for the equaliser and went close on a number of occasions, but Benjamin Williams in goal for Clarendon College was not to be beaten in an imperious performance between the sticks.

At the other end of the park, Daley exploited the space in Jamaica College’s defence on four occasions, but was wasteful in the end. Fortunately, Clarendon College were not made to pay for his profligacy.

Lenny Hyde, technical director of Clarendon College, was elated by the win.

“It was a hard-fought victory. I thought we played very disciplined through the 90 minutes, because we were playing against a quality team who attacked well, so our defensive organisation was excellent today (yesterday).

“I also thought the goalkeeper stood up well for us, and when we got our chance to go forward, we did, and we created some chances where we should have scored more goals,” Hyde told the Jamaica Observer in a post-game interview.

Losing coach Miguel Coley believes that faulty shooting proved his team’s undoing.

“I think when we had the ascendancy in the first half we should have taken our chances… they came back and they scored early and took the ascendancy, so it was a good game by them,” Coley said.