Atlantic LNG National Primary Schools Football League

The round of 16 for boys and girls will see 32 of the top schools in the eight Education District battling for supremacy. Last year, Carenage Boys won their fourth title when they defeated Arima Boys Government by a 1-0 margin.

Aaqil Campbell’s clinically-taken second half free kick clinched the second consecutive championship title for the Carenage Boys in the Primary School’s League at Hasely Crawford Stadium in Mucurapo. It was the fourth national title for Carenage in six years, having previously won in 2003, 2005 and 2007.

However, new girl’s champion Carapichaima RC will be seeking to retain possession of its national title which it won last year for the first time by sudden death penalty kicks, after coming close in the previous two years.

They will be without ace player Zoe Swift this year. The league launches on Wednesday at VIP Lounge, Hasely Crawford Stadium, Mucurapo from 10 am.

Matches

Thursday
Boys—Round of 16, Ato Boldon Stadium (Couva), Mannie Ramjohn Stadium (Marabella), Dwight Yorke Stadium (Tobago), 10 am and 11.15 am.

Friday
Girls—Round of 16, Ato Boldon Stadium, Mannie Ramjohn Stadium, Dwight Yorke Stadium, 10 am and 11.15 am.

November 10
Quarterfinals Girls & Boys, Ato Boldon Stadium, Mannie Ramjohn Stadium, Dwight Yorke Stadium

November 12
Semifinals—Ato Boldon Stadium

November 17
Finals—Girls, 9.30 am, Boys, 10.30 am, Hasely Crawford Stadium
Presentation of Awards, noon.

November 19
District Quarterfinal, Ato Boldon Stadium, Mannie Ramjohn Stadium.

December 1
District Semifinal, Ato Boldon Stadium, Mannie Ramjohn Stadium.

December 3
District final, Hasely Crawford Stadium Girls—9.30 am, Boys - 10.30 am
Presentation of Awards - noon.

Bon Accord, Montgomery Tobago Primary champs

Bon Accord Government Boy’s and the Montgomery Government Girls’ were crowned District Champions of the Milo Tobago Primary School Football League at the Dwight Yorke Stadium, Bacolet on Friday.

Montgomery persevered with a 3-1 extra-time victory over Eastern Conference winners, Roxborough Anglican, while Bon Accord Government defeated its Leeward B Zone arch rivals, Bethesda Government, by a 2-1 margin. In the Girls Final, Montgomery, the Western Conference Champions, took an early lead when Aaliyah Charles netted her twelfth goal of the season.

Montgomery took the 1-0 lead into half-time but Tsaianne Leander, netted her 19th goal this season for the equalizer, with two minutes remaining, to send the match into extra-time for the second consecutive year.

Montgomery regained the lead in the second minute of extra-time via a Tamara Roberts found the net off an assist by Charles while Roxborough’s Leander miss two good chances for her team before Roberts killed off the contest with her second goal of the game and seventh of the season with about five minutes remaining to land its first title just three years after their boy’s team won the Tobago League.

Roberts was voted Player of the final, while Charles won the Golden Ball, for the League MVP and Best Defensive Player, award. Leander won the Golden Boot with a record 19 goals. In the Boy’s decider, Bon Accord, the Leeward B zonal champions, went ahead in the 19th minute when Shakeem Irvine finished off a good build up by Lincoln Duncan and Andel Francis with his seventh of the campaign.

Bethesda, which finished as runner Up in the Leeward B Zone, tied up the score in the 52nd minute when Kareem Phillips with an audacious free-kick, similar to the one scored in the semifinal win over dethroned champions, Whim Anglican. Bon Accord wasted little time reclaiming the lead when Jabari George finished off a well executed one-two play with Irvine for his third league goal as Dwight Yorke’s alma mata held on for its first title in ten years.

It was also Bon Accord’s third win over Bethesda this season after having notched a 2-1 Golden Goal win in the semifinals of last month’s Goderick Alfred Tobago Primary School Football Cup and a 3-2 conquest in Leeward B group play this season.

The victory gave Bon Accord the Tobago Cup/League double. Irvine was voted Player of the final, while Carrington became the first goalkeeper to win the “Golden Ball” for the league’s Most Valuable Player, in 12 years.

Carrington also won the award for Best Defensive Player, while LaShawn Roberts of Bethesda won the Golden Boot, award for his league high 20 goals. All four teams which participated in the finals have qualified to represent the Tobago Educational District in the Atlantic LNG National Primary School Football League.

That competition is set to kick off with the next ten days. Montgomery and Roxborough will attempt to become the first Tobago school to win the National Primary School Girls Football League will Bon Accord and Bethesda will attempt to emulate the former’s triumph from ten years ago, which was Tobago’ s last success in the National Primary School Boys Football League.