CC spank Mona 4-0 to retain Olivier Shield
KINGSTON, Jamaica – daCosta Cup champions Clarendon College spanked Manning Cup winners Mona High 4-0 to lift the Olivier Shield at the National Stadium on Wednesday to bring the curtains down on the ISSA schoolboy football season.
Christopher Hull scored two goals in three minutes late in the game to put the game on ice as Clarendon College retained the traditional symbol of all-island schoolboy football supremacy. This is their seventh hold on the trophy, sharing it once with Dunoon Park Technical in 1998.
After being surprised 3-2 by Glenmuir High in the final of the ISSA Champions Cup on December 2, Clarendon College rebounded to thrash Glenmuir High 6-2 in the daCosta Cup final on Saturday before rolling past Mona High on Wednesday.
Mona High had the first scoring chances but failed to get their shots on target and, as they sought to get back into the game, ran into an inspired Roshae Burrell in the Clarendon College goal.
Kaheim Dixon put Clarendon College in the lead when he was left alone in the Mona High area and headed a corner past goalkeeper Akeem Bernard. They had to wait until the 69th minute to add another. Deandre Gallimore’s shot from just outside the 18 yards area just dribbled across the line, inches from Bernard’s right post, with the custodian stranded in the middle of the goal.
Hull then took over. He was quickest to react following a corner and headed the ball into the goal in the 84th minute. Three minutes later he made it 4-0 with an acrobatic header that flashed the ball past Bernard.
-Paul A Reid