Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege Ch­agua­nas, who com­plet­ed the re­ten­tion of its Sec­ondary Schools Crick­et League (SS­CL) Pre­mier­ship Di­vi­sion­ti­tle last week against Vish­nu Boys Hin­du Col­lege, is aim­ing to com­plete this year’s edi­tion with an un­beat­en streak as it trav­els to sec­ond-placed St Mary’s Col­lege Tues­day (March 11).

At St Mary’s ground in Port-of-Spain, the host team, who needs a math­e­mat­i­cal mir­a­cle to over­take Pre­sen­ta­tion, still has a lot to play for. A loss to­day and a huge win for Na­pari­ma Col­lege at Hon­ey­moon Park in El Do­ra­do, Tu­na­puna against Hillview Col­lege could pos­si­bly see it drop­ping to third, if "Naps" ac­quire enough bonus points.

While Pre­sen­ta­tion is un­beat­en across eight match­es this sea­son, the St Mary’s team is on a five-match win streak and wants to end on a high to car­ry the mo­men­tum and con­fi­dence over to the In­ter­col as they switch for­mats.

Buoyed by its cap­tain Bren­dan Boodoo’s un­beat­en dou­ble hun­dred in last week’s win against To­co Sec­ondary, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do will al­so want to close off the league with a win at home against AS­JA Boys’ Col­lege as it looks to de­fend its In­ter­col ti­tle.

How­ev­er, in or­der to achieve this, they need sup­port for their na­tion­al play­ers, Boodoo, Riyaad Mo­hammed and Aa­di­an Racha, as much of the bur­den has been placed on the trio, who have all fea­tured for the Red Force youth teams in the past with Racha even get­ting a call-up to the Red Force's se­nior team in Jan­u­ary.

Racha will use this match as a warm-up for York­shire’s im­por­tant clash against Queen’s Park Crick­et Club to­mor­row in the T&T Crick­et Board (TTCB)/Trin­ba­go Knight Rid­ers (TKR) T20 Fes­ti­val at the Queen’s Park Oval in St Clair.

The in­ter­est will be at the bot­tom half of the ta­ble. Four teams will be rel­e­gat­ed this year as the SS­CL has de­cid­ed to re­duce the num­ber of teams next sea­son from ten to eight as it was pre­vi­ous­ly. Two of the schools from the Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion will be pro­mot­ed to join the top six from this sea­son.

To­co is al­ready rel­e­gat­ed and with­out a chance to stay afloat. Its match against St Bene­dict’s Col­lege can sim­ply be aca­d­e­m­ic as the La Ro­main-based Col­lege al­so needs a math­e­mat­i­cal mir­a­cle to avoid rel­e­ga­tion, as they need to get in­to the top six and need al­most 50 points to do so.

Hillview Col­lege needs a pos­i­tive re­sult against Na­pari­ma to es­cape rel­e­ga­tion and hopes that Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do al­so de­feats AS­JA to re­main in the top flight in 2026. ‘Pre­sen­ta­tion San­do’ can find it­self in hot wa­ter if it los­es to AS­JA and Hillview wins against "Naps".

Vish­nu Boy’s will not want to take Fa­ti­ma Col­lege for grant­ed. The Mu­cu­rapo-based team is al­so cer­tain to be rel­e­gat­ed but will want to go out on a win­ning note and spoil Vish­nu’s par­ty as the In­ter­col looms.

Tues­day’s match­es

At Her­mitage: St Bene­dict’s Col­lege vs To­co Sec­ondary

At Hon­ey­moon Park: Hillview Col­lege vs Na­pari­ma Col­lege

At St Mary’s: St Mary’s Col­lege vs Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege Ch­agua­nas

At Union Hall: Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege San Fer­nan­do vs AS­JA Boy’s Col­lege

At Fa­ti­ma: Fa­ti­ma Col­lege vs Vish­nu Boy’s Hin­du Col­lege