Cornwall College completed a perfect win record to claim top honours in Saturday’s inaugural staging of the Montego Bay United (MBU) Invitational high school football tournament at Montego Bay Sports Complex.

The St James-based team defeated Frome Technical 2-1 in the final to pocket the $1-million winner-take-all first prize.

Cornwall and Frome had topped their preliminary groups with two wins each before beating Irwin High and Maldon High, respectively, in the semi-finals.

Leacroft Lettman, director of the MBU Academy and the organiser of the event, was happy with the outcome. He called for more partnerships for next year’s staging when he said they hope to be able to “spread the wealth around to more teams”.

“Overall, it was an excellent initiative. We just need some more sponsorship from businesses here in western Jamaica to come out and play a part in helping the young players who we hope will benefit from this kind of exposure,” he told the Jamaica Observer.

He said he was pleased with the fact there were no serious injury to any player so close to the start of the Inter-secondary Schools Sports Association schoolboy football season.

Lettman added: “All the games ended in the regulation 40 minutes and we did not have to use penalties [as tie breakers]. We saw good quality football, we saw the players really put out their best in all the games.”

Two superb goals from Carlondo Morris and Nickane Brown carried Cornwall to the title in a close and exciting final, handing Frome Technical their only loss of the tournament.

The game was only two minutes old when Morris, who was part of the Jamaica team that won the Concacaf Boys’ Under-15 League B Championship in Aruba days ago, controlled a ball with his back to the Frome goal and turned to sweetly fire a left-footed volley past goalkeeper Tyrese Thompson.

Frome Technical responded six minutes later when Wayne Mullings finished off a good move, firing the ball across the line from about three yards out.

Brown produced a stunning winner with five minutes to go when he met a cross from the right wing with a bicycle kick that flew just under the cross bar.

In the semi-finals, Ameche Robinson and Morris scored for Cornwall College in their 2-1 win, with Tyese Christie pulling one back for Irwin, while Romario Clarke scored for Frome in their 1-0 win over Maldon.

In the first round, Cornwall beat Maldon 4-0 and Herbert Morrison Technical 2-0 to top Zone 1, while Frome had defeated St James High 3-1 and Irwin 2-0.

Maldon edged Herbert Morrison 1-0, while Irwin beat St James High by the same margin.