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Friday, May 30, 2025

Mason Hall files protest after losing to Scarborough

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WALTER ALIBEY
613 days ago
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Anthony E Williams Mason Hall Secondary School Football Team Manager

Anthony E Williams Mason Hall Secondary School Football Team Manager

Un­beat­en Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary dropped two valu­able points in a 1-1 tie with Sig­nal Hills Sec­ondary on Sat­ur­day at the Bertille St. Clair Play­ing Field when ac­tion in the Boys Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) con­tin­ued on Sat­ur­day af­ter­noon.

The re­sult though, did not pre­vent them from tak­ing the top spot on the six-team stand­ings af­ter three rounds of match­es.

Scar­bor­ough got their goal from Daviel Thomas, while Jer­maine Mor­gan got the lone item for Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary.

Scar­bor­ough is now on sev­en points af­ter two wins and a drawn match. Sig­nal Hill is in the sec­ond po­si­tion af­ter just a vic­to­ry and two draws on five points. Mean­while, Pen­te­costal Light and Life has se­cured the third-place po­si­tion de­spite play­ing to a 1-1 tie with Rox­bor­ough Sec­ondary at the Mt. Gomery Recre­ation. Ground.

Samuel Solomon was the scor­er for Pen­te­costal Light and Light, but his goal was can­celled out by an item from Yohan Beck­les. And at the Shaw Park Com­plex, which was card­ed to be the venue for the Ma­son Hall Sec­ondary and Good­wood Sec­ondary en­counter, but it was not uti­lized, as the match was called off.

Ma­son Hall team man­ag­er An­tho­ny Williams said the Dis­ci­pli­nary Com­mit­tee will have to de­cide on the out­come of the match af­ter Good­wood Sec­ondary breached the rules by re­quest­ing a post­pone­ment on the day of the game.

The rule, Williams said, gives school teams 48 hours or two days be­fore a re­quest for a post­pone­ment of a game. Williams said his team was ac­tu­al­ly on the field of play when he got the news that Good­wood Sec­ondary would not be able to play the match.

Ma­son Hall was sched­uled to play just two match­es to date, but both are be­fore the SS­FL dis­ci­pli­nary com­mit­tee for fi­nal re­sults.

Ac­cord­ing to Williams, in his team’s first match against Scar­bor­ough at the Mo­ri­ah Rec Grounds, there was not a full com­ple­ment of of­fi­cials. On­ly the ref­er­ee turned up and both schools agreed to pro­vide a lines­man each.

Williams, said, how­ev­er, that be­cause there were not suf­fi­cient of­fi­cials at the match, his team de­cid­ed to play un­der protest.

He al­so claimed in the match, his team got an equal­iz­ing goal late to tie the scores at 3-3, but the lines­man ruled it off­side.

Williams made it clear he is will­ing to pro­vide video ev­i­dence that the goal scored was a good one.

“I am pre­pared to use both, the case of hav­ing in­suf­fi­cient of­fi­cials or the goal that was ruled off-side to fight his case. If the SS­FL is de­sirous of im­prov­ing the stan­dard of the League, then things must be done right,” Williams said.


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