Secondary Schools - Boys

Naparima and Presentation San Fernando earned contrasting victories yesterday, as they both advanced to the South Zonal final of the Coca Cola Intercol competition.

IT was 40 years ago on November 2 that Belmont Secondary School wrote their name into the history books of local football.

Class was undoubtedly in session yesterday at Larry Gomes Stadium in Malabar as St Augustine Secondary delivered a telling lesson--in the form of a 13-0 hammering--to newly-promoted East Zone Senior Division winners Barataria South Secondary in East Zone Coca Cola InterCol quarter-final action.

Once again the Coca Cola InterCol has proved itself the great equaliser of schools football, no pun intended.

Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) South Zone champions Presentation College San Fernando cruised into the semi-finals of their zonal Coca Cola InterCol competition with a comfortable 3-0 whipping of newly-promoted Fyzabad Secondary yesterday at Mannie Ramjohn Stadium in Marabella.

Siparia Secondary took the first step to salvaging their season with a stunning 1-0 victory over St Benedict's College in the first game of a Coca Cola InterCol Secondary Schools Football League South Zone double-header at Skinner Park, San Fernando yesterday.

There will be new Coca Cola InterCol national champions this year as defending champs Mucurapo East Secondary suffered an early exit from the tournament, via a 3-2 defeat at the hands of Fatima College yesterday in North Zone action.

Woodbrook Secondary and Trinity College became the first casualties of the Coca Cola InterCol competition when they were beaten in contrasting fashion last evening by St Anthony's College and Queen's Royal College (QRC) respectively.