“I have told them and I keep telling them that this school is God’s school and we are going to do a lot of amazing things,” acclaimed Lilith Wilson, acting principal of Clarendon College as the school celebrated its eighth hold on the ISSA Wata daCosta Cup.

Clarendon College competed with 10 players from the 14th minute after goalkeeper Tafari Chambers was sent off for deliberately handling the ball outside his penalty area, but still managed to eke out a 2-1 win over Cornwall College with goals from the outstanding duo of Nicque Daley and Lamar Walker.

“To have won against such a formidable team, that other CC, it would have had to be the power of God,” continued Wilson.

The 76-year-old Clarendon College, which was formed in 1942, first won the daCosta Cup in 1977 and had further success in 1978, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1998 and 2014.

“This means a lot to the school. It means that God is with us because for us to have won this match, it would have had to be as a result of the intervention of God Almighty,” the acting principal reiterated.

“We know that these boys are tenacious, they are extremely tenacious and I keep saying for them to have lost one person against such a team and to have risen to the highest heights, we commend them for the tenacity,” she added.

“The strong spirit of a man sustains him in bodily pain and also when men on Earth have done their best, God will do the rest,” added Wilson.

“This is very good promotion for our school and we have been doing very well in other areas. This is a good school, a very good school and we are going to make our mark on society,” she noted.

Hundreds of students turned out for yesterday’s devotion in the school’s Stuart Hall auditorium which got going at 8:00 am and lasted for just over an hour in an electrifying atmosphere.

It was a sea of blue and yellow, flag-waving, vuvuzuela-blowing students dancing and prancing to music which started with RKelly’s hit song The World’s Greatest.

The celebration went on uninterrupted for approximately 20 minutes before Wilson parted the gathering and led in members of the winning team, and the students took the decibel levels to a gradual crescendo.

Exulted, the players, coaches and managers entered the stage and displayed the new daCosta Cup and a framed photo of the late legendary Winston Chung Fah, who coached the team to its first title in 1977.

Head coach Lenworth Hyde Snr, who played a starring role on that historic 1977 team, believes this latest triumph is bigger based on the celebration.

“We didn’t have this in our time. This one is bigger because as a player you could depend on yourself to deliver the goods, but as a coach you have to deal with numerous personalities in team, so it was tough, but we managed to pull through,” said Hyde.

“I learnt a lot from Winston Chung-Fah and it helped me to guide these youths. We won the Ben Francis [Cup] last year and it was a three-year plan, but everything came to fruition and we won the finals,” he noted.

The devotion ended at 9:00 am and the students bounced out to Ding Dong’s Flairy before embarking on a road march through Chapelton.