Diego Mar­tin Gov­ern­ment School se­cured its first Trinidad ti­tle when it de­feat­ed Pa­lo Seco Gov­ern­ment 2-0 to reg­is­ter their lien on the Cham­pi­onship Tro­phy when the Girl Un­der-15 fi­nal in the Na­tion­al Pri­ma­ry Schools Foot­ball League was con­test­ed in the sec­ond match of a triple-head­er at Fa­ti­ma Grounds, Port-of-Spain, Tues­day morn­ing.

Ear­li­er, Ari­ma Boys RC scored a huge 7-0 win over the In­ter­na­tion­al School of Port-of-Spain (ISPS) in the U-12 Boys ti­tle match and lat­er Cara­pichaima RC edged San­ta Cruz RC, 1-0 in the U-15 Boys fi­nale.

Some 800 per­sons came out to sup­port their teams at the Cham­pi­onship and the win for Diego Mar­tin came as no sur­prise. The un­beat­en Diego Mar­tin Gov­ern­ment team played well and had the bet­ter of the ex­changes in the ear­ly part of the match. How­ev­er, when An­na Marie Chris­t­ian placed a good right-foot­er home Diego Mar­tin sup­port­ers went in­to a fren­zy. When ref­er­ee Jerome Wal­ter blew his whis­tle sig­nalling the end of the first half, Diego Mar­tin was in a good po­si­tion, up 1-0.

On the re­sump­tion, Pa­lo Seco pressed as Etana Bridge­wa­ter and Ny­ola Austin tried to put their team on the score­sheet. How­ev­er, Chris­t­ian sealed the win for Diego Mar­tin af­ter get­ting a good pass from Reniya Pem­ber­ton and she fin­ished with aplomb. Two min­utes lat­er, Diego Mar­tin was cham­pi­on of Trinidad and coach Shem Bar­row was a proud coach there­after.

The sec­ond match was worth wait­ing to see af­ter Ari­ma Boys RC failed to ar­rive on time for the game. They must thank ISPS for not re­quest­ing a for­feit from the match, so late was the new U-15 boys’ cham­pi­on team.

How­ev­er, once ref­er­ee Jerome Wal­ter blew his whis­tle to start the game it was a dif­fer­ent sto­ry as the lev­el played by both teams was high.

Ari­ma had the first laugh when Kay­dan Jamer­son scored the open­er with a well-tak­en free kick from 25 me­tres out. ISPS kept com­ing back with Jose Soli­man but he could not get the ball in­to the back of the net.

Un­like top­scor­er Antwon Munroe, who was on tar­get five times. His first saw him drib­ble and fin­ish beau­ti­ful­ly from 15 me­tres out for the Ari­ma Boys’ sec­ond item send­ing their 200 sup­port­ers singing and danc­ing as ISPS looked in a spot of both­er.

Mon­roe reg­is­tered his sec­ond in the 15th minute to make it 3-0 at the half. On the re­sump­tion, it was all Ari­ma Boys RC again cel­e­brat­ing as Munroe added his third and the team’s fourth be­fore Jamer­son had an­oth­er mak­ing it 5-0 to the for­mer U-15 cham­pi­on.

ISPS fought back dogged­ly and forced the goal­keep­er to bring off two good saves but then Mon­roe struck again and again to put the is­sue be­yond doubt, 7-0. Ari­ma Boys RC won the Trinidad leg of the Na­tion­al Cham­pi­onship for the first time.

The Ari­ma team did well and the sup­port of the Min­is­ter of Plan­ning and De­vel­op­ment, Pene­lope Beck­les paid div­i­dends.

The last match of the day saw Cara­pichaima RC sneak past the East­ern Gi­ants San­ta Cruz RC, 1-0. Cara­pichaima RC got its goal from Chase Si­mon and it was a well-tak­en goal. He took on the cen­tre-back and evad­ed him be­fore send­ing a pow­er­ful right-foot­er in­to the back of the nets.

San­ta Cruz RC could con­sid­er them­selves un­for­tu­nate af­ter miss­ing two penal­ty kicks dur­ing the game. They missed one in the ninth minute and then with two min­utes left a sec­ond. But cred­it must be giv­en to the Cara­pichia­ma RC who fought dogged­ly to the end.

All Trinidad win­ners will meet their To­ba­go coun­ter­parts on De­cem­ber 3 at the Ari­ma Velo­drome.

Yes­ter­day’s re­sults

U-12 Boys Di­vi­sion

ISPS 0 vs Ari­ma Boys RC 7 (Antwon Munroe 5, Kay­don Jamer­son 2)

U-15 Girls Di­vi­sion

Diego Mar­tin Gov’t (A. Chris­t­ian 2) vs Pa­lo Seco Gov’t 0

U-15 Boys Di­vi­sion

Cara­pichaima RC 1 (Chase Si­mon) vs San­ta Cruz RC 0