East Mu­cu­rapo Sec­ondary and Rox­bor­ough Sec­ondary se­cured con­trast­ing wins when the sec­ond round of match­es took place Thurs­day in the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Boys Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion "Big Five" com­pe­ti­tion for pro­mo­tion to the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion.

​For­mer na­tion­al cham­pi­ons East Mu­cu­rapo, com­mon­ly called "Com­pre", sound­ed a warn­ing to all ri­vals with a con­vinc­ing 4-1 thrash­ing of host and East Zone cham­pi­on El Do­ra­do West at the El Do­ra­do West Sec­ondary Ground in El Do­ra­do.

​For the Dale Saun­ders-coached "Com­pre", Kei­th Fras­er opened the scor­ing in the fifth minute be­fore Dante Joseph dou­bled the lead in the 14th minute. Ni­heme Van­der­pool added a third in the 21st minute, and Ajani Glas­gow capped off a com­mand­ing per­for­mance in the 79th minute for a 4-0 cush­ion.

Omani Ed­wards, who net­ted in his team's 5-0 win over Pleas­antville Sec­ondary in their open­er on Mon­day, struck deep in­to stop­page time (90+3') for El Do­ra­do West, though it served on­ly as a late con­so­la­tion.

​With the win, East Mu­cu­rapo, who had their open­er against Cen­tral Zone cham­pi­ons Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege of Ch­agua­nas post­poned due to a lack of match of­fi­cials, moved to the top of the five-team ta­ble with three points, tied with El Do­ra­do West and To­ba­go cham­pi­ons Rox­bor­ough Sec­ondary.

​At the Rox­bor­ough Sec­ondary Ground, new­ly crowned To­ba­go Zone win­ners Rox­bor­ough Sec­ondary bat­tled to a 2-1 vic­to­ry over vis­it­ing South Zone cham­pi­ons Pleas­antville Sec­ondary.

The in-form Nyelle Al­leyne opened the scor­ing for the host in the 39th minute with his fourth goal in three match­es, which his team took in­to the half-time in­ter­val.

​T'Jorn Top­pin dou­bled Rox­bor­ough Sec­ondary's ad­van­tage in the 66th minute but with ten min­utes left on the clock, Joshua De Four pulled one back for Pleas­antville Sec­ondary in the 80th minute. How­ev­er, that was as close as Pleas­antville would get as Rox­bor­ough held on for the win, hand­ing Pleas­antville a sec­ond de­feat from as many match­es.

At the end of the five-team round-robin se­ries, the top three teams will be pro­mot­ed to next year's SS­FL Pre­mier Di­vi­sion while four teams will be de­mot­ed at the end of this year's Pre­mier Di­vi­sion, re­turn­ing the com­pe­ti­tion to 16 teams for the 2027 cam­paign.

Yes­ter­day's results

East Mu­cu­rapo 4 (Kei­th Fras­er 5th, Dante Joseph 14th, Ni­heme Van­der­pool 21st, Ajani Glas­gow, 79th) vs El Do­ra­do West 1 (Omani Ed­wards 90+3)

Roxbor­ough 2 (Nyelle Al­leyne 39th, T'Jorn Top­ping 66th), vs Pleas­antville 1 (Joshua De Four 80th)

Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege (Ch­agua­nas) - bye.

Cur­rent SS­FL Boys Cham­pi­onship 'Big Five' stand­ings

Pos*Teams*P*W*D*L*F*A*Pts

1. East Mu­cu­rapo Sec*1*1*0*0*4*1*3

2. El Do­ra­do West*2*1*0*1*6*4*3

3. Rox­bor­ough Sec*1*1*0*0*2*1*3

4. Pleas­antville Sec*2*0*0*2*1*7*0

5. Pres (Chag)*0*0*0*0*0*0*0

Re­main­ing fix­tures

Wednes­day

Pre­sen­ta­tion Chag vs Pleasantville, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege Grd, Ch­agua­nas

Rox­bor­ough vs El Do­ra­do West, Rox­bor­ough Sec School Grd, Rox­bor­ough Sec

No­vem­ber 14

Pleas­antville vs East Mu­cu­rapo, Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la

Pre­sen­ta­tion Chag vs Rox­brough, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege Grd, Ch­agua­nas

No­vem­ber 21

El Do­ra­do West vs Pre­sen­ta­tion Chag, El Do­ra­do West Grd, El Do­ra­do

East Mu­cu­rapo vs Rox­bor­ough, East Mu­cu­rapo Grd, Mu­cu­rapo Road