MONTEGO BAY, St James – When Cornwall College beat Manchester High in their third ISSA/Flow daCosta Cup quarter-final game at Jarrett Park last week Wednesday, it pulled the Montego Bay-based team level, for the most-consecutive wins in one season, with the title-winning Rusea’s High team in 2011.

If the Dr Dean Weatherly-coached team wins their semi-final game against Clarendon College at STETHS on November 25, then they will hold the record for the most-consecutive wins by a daCosta Cup team in one season.

Despite these flattering figures, Weatherly was still not counting his chickens, although his team was unbeaten after 19 games all year in the competition.

“That is good and it shows we are being consistent, but we still have not won anything yet and the hard work is still to come,” he said after last Wednesday’s game against Manchester High.

“It has been a long season and this is the business end of the season and one slip-up can mean the end of the road, so we can’t even afford to bask in those victories yet,” said Weatherly, one of the most successful coaches in the island — leading Cornwall College to eight titles, including the treble in 2001, and also Violet Kickers and Montego Bay United to Premier League titles as well.

Led by the prolific Bryan “Rambo” Brown who had one of the best seasons as a striker, Rusea’s High beat STETHS in the daCosta Cup finals in 2011 after losing to them in the Ben Francis KO semi-final in sudden death.

They also lost the Olivier Shield to Manning Cup champions St George’s College.

Brown scored 37 goals in the daCosta Cup competition that season, single-handedly carrying the team that scored 68 goals in their 12 first-round games, a number that was tied by Manchester High last year.

His goalscoring prowess overshadowed his teammates as Demar Dohman, Anthony Walker and Jovan James both scored six goals each in the first round, with Keanu Williams and Nicodie Haughton at three each.

Rusea’s won their 16th-straight game in the first game of the quarter-finals as they played 12 games in Zone B at that, while Cornwall College had to wait until the end of the quarter-finals, having played 10 games in Zone A this season.

Jourdaine Fletcher leads Cornwall College with 27 goals so far — 20 in the daCosta Cup competition — and leads with eight since the start of the inter-zone round when the competition for the Golden Boot starts.

Peter-Lee Vassell has scored six goals since the start of the inter-zone round, while central defender Pagiel Brown, with his double last week Wednesday, is next with Emmanuel Campbell, Dwayne Harding, Garnett Hudson, Aiden Jokomba and Shavon McDonald all getting one each.

— Paul A Reid