South­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion cham­pi­on, Pitch­men FC, and East­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion cham­pi­on, Ter­minix La Hor­quet­ta XF will clash in the fea­ture match of a dou­ble-head­er when the As­cen­sion Tour­na­ment Foot­ball-spon­sored six-club Zon­al Cham­pi­on of Cham­pi­ons (CoC) con­tin­ues at the Phase II La Hor­quet­ta Recre­ation Ground, La Hor­quet­ta on Fri­day (Feb­ru­ary 10) from 6 pm.

Both teams will en­ter the match brim­ming with con­fi­dence fol­low­ing wins in their re­spec­tive open­ers on Fri­day (Feb­ru­ary 3).

In the open­er, Pitch­men FC got a goal in each half from Tequan Ro­driguez while N’Kosi Charles added the third in a 3-0 tri­umph over Cen­tral Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion win­ners, Re­al Cen­tral FC, while na­tion­al winger Ross Rus­sell Jr al­so scored a dou­ble to lead La Hor­quet­ta XF to a 5-1 spank­ing of North­ern Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion cham­pi­on, Bel­mont FC.

Bel­mont FC will have a chance to re­deem them­selves when they come up against To­ba­go Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Pre­mier Di­vi­sion win­ners, 1976 FC Phoenix in Fri­day’s open­er from 6 pm.

Re­al Cen­tral FC is on a bye this week­end while the East­ern Coun­ties Foot­ball Union (EC­FU) rep­re­sen­ta­tive is still to be de­ter­mined.

The win­ners of the round-robin com­pe­ti­tion will take home $30,000 while the run­ners-up get $15,000, and the third-place fin­ish­er, $10,000.

Re­sults

Fri­day (Feb­ru­ary 3)

Round One:

Pitch­men FC (SFA) 3 (Tequan Ro­driguez 24th, 47th, N’Kosi Charles 89th) vs Re­al Cen­tral FC (CFA) 0

La Hor­quet­ta XF (EFA) 5 (Ross Rus­sell Jr 53rd, 81st, Tarik Lee 44th, Re­al Gill 85th, Isa­iah Lee 89th) vs Bel­mont FC (NFA) 1 (Kea­gan Gul­ston 74th)

Up­com­ing match­es

Round Two:

Fri­day (Feb­ru­ary 10)

Venue: Phase II La Hor­quet­ta Recre­ation Ground, La Hor­quet­ta.

1976 Phoenix FC (TFA) vs Bel­mont FC (NFA), 6 pm

La Hor­quet­ta XF (EFA) vs Pitch­men FC (SFA), 8 pm