East Zone cham­pi­ons Five Rivers Sec­ondary se­cured a 2-1 win over North Zone cham­pi­on, St Joseph’s Con­vent (Port-of-Spain) in their Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League Girls “Big Five” semi­fi­nal at St Mary’s Col­lege Ground, Ser­pen­tine Road, St Clair, Sunday (No­vem­ber 3).

For Five Rivers, yet to taste de­feat af­ter a per­fect 10-0 win-loss zon­al league run, na­tion­al youth play­er Hac­k­eema Goodridge and Mo­ri­ah Matthews were both on tar­get to can­cel out Bethany Phillips’ item for St Joseph’s Con­vent.

Five Rivers now await the win­ner of the oth­er semi­fi­nal be­tween Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School, the To­ba­go Zone cham­pi­on and South Zone win­ner, Pleas­antville Sec­ondary which was post­poned from yes­ter­day to a date and venue to be de­ter­mined.

In the lone quar­ter­fi­nal match last week, Zye­sha Potts got the de­ci­sive item to lead Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary past Cen­tral Zone cham­pi­on Mir­a­cle Min­istries Pen­te­costal High School 1-0 at Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School Ground, Sig­nal Hill, To­ba­go.

A new cham­pi­on will be crowned in this year’s SS­FL “Big Five” com­pe­ti­tion af­ter Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary, the win­ner of the past two ti­tles, was de­throned as To­ba­go cham­pi­on by Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary. 

Sunday’s SS­FL Girls ‘Big Five’ semi­fi­nal

Five Rivers Sec 2 (Hac­k­eema Goodridge, Mo­ri­ah Matthews) vs St Joseph’s Con­vent (PoS) 1 (Bethany Phillips)