Irwin secure quarter-final spot in St James Under-13 football
MONTEGO BAY, St James — Irwin Primary secured the final quarter-final spot in the St James Football Association Under-13 competition, edging Pinnacle Academy on goal difference for the second place in Zone B, after they played out a 0-0 draw in their game at Corinaldi Avenue on Thursday.
Both teams ended the first round on seven points but Irwin Primary had the better goal-difference of five goals to Pinnacle’s one, to join zone winners Chetwood Primary who beat Buckingham Primary 6-1 to top the group with 10 points.
The other qualifiers for the quarter-finals are Flankers Primary and Granville Primary from Zone A, Barracks Road Primary and Howard Cooke Primary from Zone C and Corinaldi Avenue Primary and Catherine Hall from Zone D.
The quarter-finals will be played on a knock-out format on Monday and Tuesday next week with the winners advancing to the semis set for Friday.
On Thursday, Pinnacle Academy needed a win to advance ahead of Irwin Primary but came up just short of their first time out of the first round.
In the first game of the day, two goals each from Jaquan Clarke and Michael Fogah carried Chetwood to their biggest win of the season to secure their place at the top of the points tables.
Chetwood Primary led 4-1 at the half-time break as Adrian Malcolm and Aiden Earle also scored for the winners while Damian Hewitt scored for Buckingham Primary.
On Wednesday, Howard Cooke pulled off a mild upset, edging zone winners Barracks Road Primary 1-0 to secure their place head of Green Pond Primary who beat Bickersteth Primary 4-0 to end with seven points, two less than Barracks Road and Howard Cooke.
Omari Paragon-Singh’s first goal of the season, scored in the 32nd minute, was the difference in the game as Barracks Road lost their perfect win record.
Nicholas Wallace scored a brace for Green Pond, one goal in either half while Myles Addison and Kevin Eccleston also scored.
On Tuesday, Corinaldi Avenue completed a perfect first round, thrashing Dumfries Primary 13-0 with Carlando Morris scoring seven times as his team became the only team to win all four first-round games.
Pinnacle Academy scored a come from behind 4-1 win over Buckingham Primary also.
Morris who ran his goals tally to 15 on the season, scored six times in the first half as Corinaldi Avenue led 9-0 at the break.
Mekhi Foster also scored a brace as Shevaun Brown, Sirhana Simpson, Darren Harding and Omario Morgan also got on the scoresheet.
Marco Finikin scored twice for Pinnacle as they got their second win, scoring in the 25th and 55th minutes, while Richard Dobson and Linardo White also scored after Dameon Hewitt had given Buckingham the lead in the eighth minute.
