Walker Cup starts with two matches
The
first two matches in the quarterfinals of the ISSA/Digicel Walker Cup schoolboy
football competition will be played on Thursday at Spanish Town Prison Oval.
St Catherine will face Holy Trinity in the opening encounter at 1 p.m. with Jonathan Grant tackling Eltham in the second match at 3 p.m.
Teams that were knocked out of the Manning Cup in the second round vie for the Walker Cup.
This is the second year that the competition is being played in this format, as ISSA tries to lessen the burden on the players.
To
get to the Walker Cup, St Catherine High finished second in Group C of the
preliminary round, but lost their two-leg second-round tie with Wolmer’s Boys’
School, while Holy Trinity ended the preliminaries second in Group A and lost
to Camperdown in the next stage.
Jonathan
Grant topped Group B of the preliminary round, with Eltham finishing Group F
second. In the second round, Jonathan Grant lost to Excelsior and Eltham lost
to St Andrew Technical High School.
SPANISH
TOWN PRISON OVAL
St Catherine vs Holy Trinity at 1 p.m.
Jonathan Grant vs Eltham at 3 p.m.
