There will be no Monday morning Manning Cup celebration during devotion at Kingston College (KC), principal Dave Myrie told the Jamaica Observer.

KC, which lifted their 17th Manning Cup title on Saturday with a relatively easy 3-1 win over St Catherine High, will have to wait until December 16 to celebrate.

“We won’t be having anything (Monday) morning. Reasons being, the whole school has been in exams from last week and I can’t disrupt the exams,” revealed Myrie.

He continued: “Because boys just come and do their exams and go home. So, they just come in time for the exam, do the exams and go home. So not everybody would be in school in any case and I didn’t want to disrupt, the examinations to have a celebration”.

KC, celebrating their 100th year, could not have asked for a better present.

“But what we’re gonna be doing is celebrating on (December) 16th, when we have prize giving and we’ll be using that time as well along with celebrating the prize winners and all of that to celebrate with our Manning Cup team for having given us such a wonderful victory,” said Myrie.

KC is the third most successful school in the history of the Manning Cup behind Jamaica College with 21 titles and St George’s College with 22. Wolmer’s Boys are fourth with 10.

KC will be hunting their 11th all-island Olivier Shield crown on Saturday, December 14 when they play a Garvey Maceo team seeking their first.

HW