El Dorado Senior Comprehensive prevented San Juan Secondary from starting their zonal celebrations yesterday when their scheduled opponents St George's College failed to muster a team at that school's ground in Barataria.
By forfeiting the game, St George's automatically granted the Blue Thunder a 3-0 victory and forced San Juan, on a bye in yesterday's round of matches, to delay their occupation of the sole Big Five spot available in the BG T&T Secondary Schools Football League (SSFL) East Zone.
Eldo are now on 19 points, four behind San Juan, and this year's surprise team will have to win their match again Eldo Tuesday to lift the zonal crown.
In other games, St Augustine Secondary trounced arch-rivals Arima Senior Comprehensive 4-0 to stay in third spot. They got their goals from Devon Thomas, Elton John, Shastri Spencer and Mark Aliby.
And Malabar Composite upset Hillview College 2-0.
Yesterday's SSFL scores:
North Zone
Fatima 1 (Marvin James) St Anthony's 4 (Uriah Bentick, Lester Peltier 2, Akil De Freitas)
St Mary's 1 (Kashif Clarke) QRC 0
Tranquillity 1 (Keron Simmons) Mucurapo 12 (Atulla Guerra 6, Akim Armstrong 3, Kerron
Cummings 2, Jesse Alexis)
South Zone
Fyzabad 1 Benedict's 0
Moruga 0 Princes Town 2
Naparima 0 Vessigny 0
East Zone
Arima 0 St Augustine 4 (Devon Thomas, Elton John, Shastri Spencer, Mark Aliby)
Hillview 0 Malabar Composite 2
St George's 0 El Dorado 3 (St George's forfeited game)
Central Zone
Presentation 6 Tabaquite 1
Marabella 2 Chaguanas 1
Carapichaima 7 UCB 0
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