Reign­ing na­tion­al In­ter-Col cham­pi­on Fa­ti­ma Col­lege, Na­pari­ma Col­lege and San Juan North Sec­ondary, each for­mer cham­pi­ons, will all be con­fi­dent of mak­ing it four wins on the trot when the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Pre­mier Di­vi­sion con­tin­ues on Sat­ur­day at venues across T&T from 4 pm.

Head­ing in­to the fourth round fix­tures, the on­ly re­main­ing per­fect teams have nine points each, leav­ing goal dif­fer­ence as the ta­ble sep­a­ra­tor at this stage. Four-time cham­pi­ons, Na­pari­ma (+20) is the cur­rent leader based on this cri­te­ria, ahead of San Juan North (+13) and Fa­ti­ma (+8). These teams are now three points clear of an­oth­er trio of for­mer cham­pi­ons - North Zone's Mal­ick Sec­ondary, Queen's Roy­al Col­lege (QRC) and East Mu­cu­rapo, with six points each.

To­day, the Travis Mul­raine-coached Na­pari­ma Col­lege will be brim­ming with con­fi­dence when they play East Mu­cu­rapo at Trin­i­ty Col­lege Ground, Mo­ka, Mar­aval, af­ter a ma­jor suc­cess on their last road trip to the north last week­end which re­sult­ed in a 3-2 win over St Mary's Col­lege.

Na­pari­ma has al­so record­ed em­phat­ic wins, 10-0 over Ch­agua­nas North Sec­ondary and 9-0 over Pleas­antville Sec­ondary 9-0, in pre­vi­ous rounds with the in­flu­en­tial Kanye Fran­cis lead­ing their charge. They will start as firm favourites against the Dale Saun­ders-coached East Mu­cu­rapo, who af­ter wins in their first match­es, 2-1 over Trin­i­ty East Col­lege and 1-0 against reign­ing cham­pi­ons St Bene­dict's Col­lege, ex­pe­ri­enced a melt-down in a shock­ing 5-0 loss to Fa­ti­ma in their 'Mu­cu­rapo Road' der­by. To add in­sult, they will al­so have to play with­out mid­field­er Clint Latch­man, who was red-card­ed in that con­test.

For the sec­ond match in a row, Fa­ti­ma, coached by Hut­son 'Bar­ber' Charles, will be at home and heav­i­ly favoured to come away with a huge win against bot­tom dwellers Pleas­antville Sec­ondary, who are yet to pick up a point and have con­ced­ed a whop­ping 22 goals with­out a sin­gle re­ply.

Of the lead­ing trio, the Jer­ry Moe-coached San Juan North team will face the tough­est test as they trav­el to Port-of-Spain for a clash with the surg­ing Queen's Roy­al Col­lege who have been mak­ing progress un­der the guid­ance of Ken­wyne Jones. Iron­i­cal­ly, it’s the for­mer QRC play­er, Nathan Quashie who may be the key in this game, as since switch­ing teams for this sea­son, he has been in im­mac­u­late form, al­ready find­ing the back of the nets five times in three games.

Fol­low­ing their open­ing day 4-3 win over St Bene­dict's, San Juan North fol­lowed up with a 5-0 thrash­ing of Pleas­antville and then a 2-0 shut-out of Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege; while the Roy­alians, af­ter los­ing their open­er to Mal­ick 1-3, have re­bound­ed well with hard-fought 1-0 wins over ri­vals St An­tho­ny's Col­lege and Trin­i­ty Col­lege East.

At the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la, an­oth­er in­ter­est­ing match-up could be in store as the Ran­dolph Boyce-coached St Bene­dict's, which should be boost­ed by its first win of the sea­son 3-0 away to Bish­op's High, is still ex­pect­ed to be test­ed by Ari­ma North, who are com­ing off an em­phat­ic 8-1 win over St Mary’s in their last out­ing.

The oth­er match­es to­day will see St An­tho­ny's host St Mary's Col­lege in a "Bat­tle of the Saints" at St An­tho­ny's Col­lege Ground in West­moor­ings; Mal­ick Sec­ondary en­ter­tains Spey­side Sec­ondary at St Mary's Col­lege Ground, Ser­pen­tine Road, St Clair and Ch­agua­nas North hosts Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege of San Fer­nan­do at Ed­in­burgh 500 Recre­ation Ground, Ch­agua­nas.

The day’s oth­er sched­uled match be­tween Bish­op's High School and Trin­i­ty Col­lege East card­ed for Ply­mouth Recre­ation Ground in To­ba­go, has been post­poned to Oc­to­ber 31.

Sat­ur­day's Round Four match­es:

Ch­agua­nas North vs Pre­sen­ta­tion, Ed­in­burgh 500 Rec. Grd, 4 pm

East Mu­cu­rapo vs Na­pari­ma, Trin­i­ty Col­lege Grd, Mar­aval, 4 pm

Fa­ti­ma Col­lege vs Pleas­antville, Fa­ti­ma Col­lege Grd, Mu­cu­rapo Rd, 4 pm

Mal­ick Sec vs Spey­side, St Mary's Col­lege Grd, Ser­pen­tine Rd, St Clair, 3.30 pm

QRC vs San Juan North, QRC Ground, Mar­aval Road, St Clair, 4 pm

St An­tho­ny's vs St Mary's Col­lege, West­moor­ings, 4 pm

St Bene­dict's vs Ari­ma North, Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la, 4 pm

Resched­uled:

Oc­to­ber 31:

Bish­op's High vs Trin­i­ty Col­lege East, Ply­mouth Rec. Grd, Ply­mouth, 3.30 pm

Cur­rent stand­ings:

Po­si­tions*Teams*P*W*D*L*F*A*Pts

1*Na­pari­ma Col­lege*3*3*0*0*22*2*9

2*Fa­ti­ma Col­lege*3*3*0*0*13*0*9

3*San Juan North*3*3*0*0*11*3*9

4*Mal­ick*3*2*0*1*13*2*6

5*QRC*3*2*0*1*3*3*6

6*East Mu­cu­rapo*3*2*0*1*3*6*6

7*Ari­ma North*3*1*2*0*9*1*5

8*Pre­sen­ta­tion*3*1*1*1*1*2*4

9*St Bene­dict’s Col­lege*3*1*0*2*6*5*3

10*St Mary’s Col­lege*3*1*0*2*11*11*3

11*Spey­side Sec*3*1*0*2*4*4*3

12*St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege*3*1*0*2*2*9*3

13*Ch­agua­nas North*3*1*0*2*1*20*3

14*Trin­i­ty East*3*0*1*2*2*4*1

15*Bish­op’s High*3*0*0*3*1*7*0

16*Pleas­antville*3*0*0*3*0*22*0

Goal scor­ers:

6 - Kanye Fran­cis (Na­pari­ma).

5 - Nathan Quahie (San Juan North).

4 - Michael Chaves (Fa­ti­ma), , Kyle Phillip, Ryan Radel­lant (St Mary's).

3 - Tyrell Sta­ple­ton (Ari­ma North).

2 - Justin Al­can­tar (Fa­ti­ma), Ronald­in­ho Richards, J'Lon Matthews, Oba Samuel, Jor­dan Fer­di­nand (Mal­ick), Kevin Fran­cois, Jaron Pas­call, Akiel Vesprey (Na­pari­ma), Eli­jah Wong (St Mary's), Aidan De Gannes (Fa­ti­ma), Ja­heem Dan­clair, Lin­dell Sween (San Juan North), Clint Latch­man (East Mu­cu­rapo), Dar­i­on Mar­fan (Ari­ma North), Jaden Grant, Daniel Jones (St Bene­dict's), N'kosi Quah­sie (Spey­side), Je­maul Ash­ing (Ari­ma North).

1 - Nekayse Moore (Ch­agua­nas North), Adah Bar­clay (Pre­sen­ta­tion), Stephon James, Tau Lam­see, Mic­ah Nel­son (QRC), Malachi Webb, Der­rel Gar­cia (St Ben­dict's), Thomas De­cle, Chris­t­ian Bai­ley, Kade Col­lier, Jaden Williams, Jonathan Ma­son (Fa­ti­ma), Malachi Wood­ley, Ac­k­eem James, Isa­iah David, Ke­ston Richards, Zachary Joseph (Mal­ick), Tyrel Ra­joon, Aaron Ray­mond, Is­rael Joseph, Jabari Forbes, Tevin Pan­tor, Josi­ah Coop­er, J'kown Bai­ley, Xar­i­on France, Nathaniel O'Gar­ro (Na­pari­ma), Daniel Rose, Oba­di­ah Eye­ad­el­rosiy­hia (St An­tho­ny's), Omar Daniel, Shy­on George (Spey­side), Theron O'Brien, Abil­i­ty Hazel (Ari­ma North), Ale­jan­dro Harp­er (St Mary's), Jadiel Josep, Joshua Lewis (San Juan North), Kadeem Plaza, Khaleem Prince (Trin­i­ty East), Damario Hen­ry (Bish­op's High), Je­mon Gul­ston (East Mu­cu­rapo).

Own goal : 2.