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Monday, March 3, 2025

James hat-trick guides Signal Hill past Trinity East 3-2

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Walter Alibey
171 days ago
20240913
Signl Hill’s Kyle James celebrates his third goal against Trinity College East in the Premiership Division of the Secondary Schools Football League in Trincity, yesterday. Signal Hill won 3-2.

Signl Hill’s Kyle James celebrates his third goal against Trinity College East in the Premiership Division of the Secondary Schools Football League in Trincity, yesterday. Signal Hill won 3-2.

Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School sig­nalled a stern warn­ing to its com­peti­tors in the Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Wednes­day af­ter­noon with a come-from-be­hind 3-2 vic­to­ry over Trin­i­ty Col­lege East in Trinci­ty on their re­turn to the SS­FL's top-flight com­pe­ti­tion.

Strik­er Kyle James led the way for the To­bag­o­ni­ans with a hat-trick which came af­ter Deisean Plaza fired the Arou­ca lads ahead in the 33rd minute. James notched the equalis­er a minute lat­er in the 34th minute and then pushed them ahead in the 41st minute, 2-1.

James was an in­flu­en­tial fig­ure for his team clinch­ing the To­ba­go Boys' Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion ti­tle last year and then their even­tu­al third-place fin­ish in the Big Five Play-Off which se­cured their pro­mo­tion to this year's Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion.

But yes­ter­day, he was asked to lead the way in his team's great­est test in re­cent times, hav­ing not played in the SS­FL's top-flight com­pe­ti­tion since 2017.

Af­ter clos­ing off the first half with two items that led the To­bag­o­ni­ans to the half-time in­ter­val in a po­si­tion of as­cen­dan­cy, James pushed his team's ad­van­tage to 3-1 with his third goal of the game in the 50th minute.

The game ap­peared to have been done and dust­ed un­til Za­hir Ramkissoon breathed some life back in­to his team in Arou­ca, by find­ing the nets in the 70th minute for a 3-2 score­line. Hav­ing fin­ished the sea­son in the eighth po­si­tion last year, the Trin­i­ty Col­lege East lads may count this one as a point that they let slip.

Mean­while, Sig­nal Hill coach Down­ie Mar­celle said he was par­tic­u­lar­ly hap­py for his play­ers who had been re­ward­ed for their hard work over the past cou­ple of years.

"We have not been to the top-flight Pre­mier Di­vi­sion since 2017, so the play­ers re­al­ly worked hard last year, win­ning the Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion, and then fin­ish­ing third in the Big Five Play-Offs. But yes­ter­day, we were placed in a noisy cafe­te­ria for two hours, where we could do ab­solute­ly noth­ing. We could not even con­cen­trate, but I told the guys to use this ex­pe­ri­ence to strength­en them­selves on the field and they did just that," Mar­celle said.

Asked if he was con­cerned when the home team went ahead, Mar­celle said, "No, I was not be­cause I have con­fi­dence in my play­ers. In fact, any time we step on­to a foot­ball field, we go to win."

The To­bag­o­ni­ans will next face San Juan North, the 2023 East In­ter­Col win­ner on Sat­ur­day at home. Mar­celle said he is ex­pect­ing a tough con­test from the San Juan unit but be­ing at home, he in­tends to make it work for them.

Sat­ur­day's match­es (Start time 3.30 pm)

Ari­ma North vs St Au­gus­tine, Ari­ma Velo­drome

Fa­ti­ma Col­lege vs Mir­a­cle Min­istries, Fa­ti­ma Grd

Queen's Roy­al Col­lege vs Pre­sen­ta­tion, QRC

Sig­nal Hill vs San Juan North, Sig­nal Hill

Spey­side Sec vs St Bene­dict's Col­lege, Spey­side Grd

St An­tho­ny's Col­lege vs East Mu­cu­rapo, St An­tho­ny's Grd

St Mary's Col­lege vs Mal­ick Sec, CIC Grd

Trin­i­ty Col­lege East vs Na­pari­ma Col­lege, Trin­i­ty Grd


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