St Bene­dict’s Col­lege got dou­ble strikes from Mala­cai Webb and Je­re­mi­ah Grant to cruise in­to the semi­fi­nals of the Co­ca-Co­la Na­tion­al In­ter­Col play-offs on Wednes­day with a con­vinc­ing 6-0 tri­umph over Ch­agua­nas North Sec­ondary at Fa­ti­ma Col­lege Ground, Mu­cu­rapo.

The win means they will now face Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary in the sec­ond match of a dou­ble­head­er at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo from 5 pm, while Fa­ti­ma Col­lege will be up against Trin­i­ty Col­lege East in the open­ing match from 3 pm.

Ch­agua­nas North, com­ing in­to the quar­ter­fi­nals of the In­ter­Col as a re­place­ment for Cara­pichaima East Sec­ondary which played an in­el­i­gi­ble play­er, met one-way traf­fic at Fa­ti­ma Grounds, de­spite calls by coach An­son Ray­mond to close down St Bene­dict’s key at­tack­ers and play on the coun­ter­at­tack.

In­stead, cap­tain Tarik Lee, one of the dan­ger­ous St Bene­dict’s play­ers made his pres­ence felt when he col­lect­ed a left side Je­re­mi­ah Niles cen­tre un­marked in the Ch­agua­nas penal­ty area and blast­ed it in­to the roof of the net and past the strand­ed goal­keep­er for his team’s first goal ear­ly in the first half.

The goal came cour­tesy of Niles, op­er­at­ing down the Ch­agua­nas right side.

The south­ern­ers, win­ners of the Tiger Tanks Pre­mier Di­vi­sion League and South Zone In­ter­Col ti­tles could on­ly get the lone item to take to the half-time in­ter­val af­ter 45 min­utes, and af­ter­wards, there were no changes to the di­rec­tion the traf­fic head­ed.

Nicholas Bob­combe this time was the provider of the sec­ond goal when he picked out Grant with a pin-point right side cross to head past goal­keep­er Aidan Ray­mond in the 51st minute.

With lit­tle to no re­sis­tance com­ing from the cen­tral lads, St Bene­dict’s piled on the pres­sure by scor­ing their third goal. Niles again with an­oth­er of his dan­ger­ous runs down the left flank was al­lowed to pick out Ephraim Brown at the far post to head past an out-of-po­si­tion Ray­mond for the 3-0 ad­van­tage in the 70th minute.

Grant then got his sec­ond goal of the match with an­oth­er of his trade­mark head­ers from Mala­cai Webb in the 75th.

And be­fore the cen­tral men could re­group, Webb got his first item by slap­ping a low in­to the far post from the left side for a 5-0 lead in the 76th minute. And he (Webb) com­plet­ed the rout with a head­er from Tyrique Lu­cas’s left-sided cross 10 min­utes from the end.

The ac­tion con­tin­ues to­day with the Girls East and Cen­tral Zones fi­nals.

In the cen­tral zone - Mir­a­cle Min­istries will take on Holy Faith Con­vent from 3 pm at St Mary’s Col­lege Grounds, while in the east zone fi­nal Five Rivers Sec­ondary will be up against San Juan North Sec­ondary at the same time at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um in Mal­abar, Ari­ma.