Standing true their motto “Age Quod Agis”, a Latin phrase which translates to “Whatever you do, do it to the best of your ability”, Wolmer’s Boys’ School are now poised to go all the way after securing a spot in the final of the third staging of the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association/FLOW Super Cup competition.

The lone Manning Cup team in the final four flipped the script on their rural area counterparts St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) 6-5 on sudden death penalties, after a 1-1 score line in regulation and extra time, to ensure that the Corporate Area will be represented in the final of the lucrative tournament for a third-consecutive year.

The achievement by Wolmer’s Boys’ also meant that for the first time since the inception of the tournament, dubbed the “Champions League of Schoolboy Football”, an urban area team will oppose a rural area rival.

Cornwall College had earlier emerged as the first daCosta Cup team to get to the final when they stopped Clarendon College 4-2 in the curtain-raiser of the semi-final contests at Sabina Park on Saturday.

The feature contest saw STETHS aiming to get past the semi-final for the first time after falling at that same point in 2014, and Wolmer’s playing to spoil the party of rural area fans hoping for an All-daCosta Cup final.

In the end, it was the Heroes’ Circle-based team that held the trump card in goalkeeper Shemar Jemison, who denied Nigel Palmer, then Denroy Miller, in sudden death of the dreaded shoot-out which had the large crowd on the edge of its seat. Kenroy Wallace in goal for STETHS did well to block the kick of Ramone Lewis for Wolmer’s.

Head Coach Vassel Reynolds believes the feat of making their first final will add impetus for the remainder of the season.

“We wanted to win all four really, but we said we were going to take it one game at a time; the Walker Cup is out of the picture now and we are in the FLOW Cup final. So it is still one step at a time, we just want to go back, relax and refocus ourselves for the game on Thursday and then the final on Saturday,” he told journalists in a post-match interview.

“This would have given us the momentum going forward and it would have given us a morale booster, but we are not there yet and we still need to remain focused and continue to work hard. We have been doing a lot of work, but it is still tough for them [players]. I thought that got to us in the last 10 minutes, but the good thing is that we have a couple of days now to recuperate for the game on Thursday,” he added.

Earlier, Wolmer’s started brightly and forced their opponents on the back foot in the early exchanges with colourful passes and some individual flair in the attacking third. They grabbed the ascendancy courtesy of a 15th-minute penalty by Alphanso Gooden, who improved his tally to five goals in the competition after Yannick Elliott was brought down inside the area.

They continued to press and came close to extending their lead, but Andrew Daley’s 20-yard free kick came back off the left upright as the score remained unchanged at the break.

STETHS came out more purposeful on the resumption with good attacking intent as Demar James’ shot from outside the box forced Jemison into a diving save.

The Santa Cruz-based team earned a grand opportunity to get back on level terms from a penalty, as the resulting corner kick was handled inside the area by Calvin Kelly. However, Jemison, like he has done all season, came up big to deny James from the 12-yard spot approaching the hour mark.

Wolmer’s squandered numerous chances thereafter and were later made to pay for their profligacy when James was allowed too much space at the top of the box to fire past Jemison in the 87th minute forcing the match into extra time.

Omar Wedderburn, coach of STETHS, remained upbeat that his team will bounce back to defend their daCosta Cup title.

“It was an off game for us; I am not disappointed because we always can dig deeper, so it was just an off day and next game we will be out in full effect. This will give us more energy to go and complete the job in the daCosta Cup, so I have no bad feeling, no bad thoughts, I am just happy for this experience.

“We have a lot of 15-year-olds playing, so just imagine this experience for them…we are quite happy and we will regroup quite easily and focus on the daCosta Cup,” Wedderburn noted.