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Monday, March 3, 2025

Grant, Webb braces put St Benedict’s into InterCol semis

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Walter Alibey
824 days ago
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FLASHBACK St Benedicts Tarik Lee, right, skips over the sliding challenge from Fatima’s Justin Alcantara to continue his solo attack during the Secondary School Football League Premiership final match at Ato Boldon Stadium in Balmain, Couva on October 26. St Benedict’s College won that affair 3-1 and will go after success against Chaguanas North in today’s national Intercol quartefinals. (Photo by Daniel Prentice)

FLASHBACK St Benedicts Tarik Lee, right, skips over the sliding challenge from Fatima’s Justin Alcantara to continue his solo attack during the Secondary School Football League Premiership final match at Ato Boldon Stadium in Balmain, Couva on October 26. St Benedict’s College won that affair 3-1 and will go after success against Chaguanas North in today’s national Intercol quartefinals. (Photo by Daniel Prentice)

Daniel Prentice

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.


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