Wolmer’s Boys’ are the lone survivors from the urban area Manning Cup competition to advance to the Inter-secondary Schools’ Sports Association/FLOW Super Cup semi-finals after defeating Kingston College (KC) 1-0 in quarter-final action at Sabina Park on Saturday.

The in-form Alphanso Gooden got the all-important strike from the 12-yard spot in the 90th+2 minute of the feature contest of the double-header.

In exacting revenge for their Walker Cup quarter-final defeat to their North Street-based rivals, Wolmer’s Boys’ have booked a date with St Elizabeth Technical High School as the hunt for the $1-million prize continues.

It was a fairly quiet start by both teams as they fired a number of speculative shots from a distance before gradually settling into their game.

Wolmer’s were the first to open up and went dangerously close to breaking the deadlock when Mario Salesman’s curling left-footed corner was tipped unto the underside of the crossbar by custodian Jahvanni Grant before being scrambled away.

A brief end-to-end battle ensued as KC responded shortly after through Fabian Grant, who struck a powerful right-footed shot from the top of the box, but Shemar Jemison in goal for Wolmer’s proved equal to the task.

Trayvone Reid got in on the act a minute later, beating two defenders, but poked his shot just wide of the left upright.

Wolmer’s regained the ascendancy leading up to the break as Rivaldo English shook two defenders before picking out Gooden inside the area, but the latter failed to get a shot off.

Gooden broke down the centre shortly after looking very dangerous before being brought down on the edge of the box by the advancing Grant. The resulting free kick from Andrew Daley was well held by Grant as they went to the break goalless.

It was a more compact display from both teams on the resumption in what was another end-to-end battle approaching the hour mark. KC’s leading marksman Rashawn Mackinson tried a left-footed shot from outside the box, but watched as it sailed over the crossbar.

And KC would have been cursing their luck when Fabian Grant’s left-footed shot came back off the upright after Jemison slightly misjudged the effort as going wide.

At the other end, the pesky Gooden continued to run at his opponents’ defensive line, but an alert Grant hardly allowed him any room to get a shot off. However, with both teams bracing for an additional 20 minutes of extra time, things took an unexpected turn when a long right-sided cross from Daley was handled inside the area by substitute Shaman Bloomfield.

Gooden stepped up and calmly fired in to increase his tally in the competition to four goals.

Winning coach Vassel Reynolds was beaming with joy as he lauded his team’s effort.

“I am feeling very well; I thought it was a good game, one of the better schoolboy games I have seen for the season. I am pretty satisfied when we came back. We came and managed the game and it was end to end action really.

“So I love the fact that we hang on in there and started to play on the counter, because the defence for the KC team was getting tired and so we really wanted to catch them on the counter, but I think it was a good performance from both teams,” Reynolds told journalists in a post-game interview.

His counterpart, Ludlow Bernard, believed that his team was unfortunate to come out on the wrong end of a well-played fixture.

“You know I just thought we were just very unfortunate to have conceded at the death, but I guess it was just a bit of inexperience from a very young player. We not going to kill him because I thought the team was valiant in playing right throughout,” Bernard noted.