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Friday, July 11, 2025

Tigers add InterCol title to bag

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St An­tho­ny's Col­lege con­clud­ed an out­stand­ing 2011 sea­son with a 2-0 win over Ari­ma North Sec­ondary, which saw them lift the Co­ca-Co­la Na­tion­al In­ter­Col ti­tle at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um, Mu­cu­rapo, yes­ter­day evening. First half goals from Dar­ryl Trim and Dwight Ce­bal­lo, along with an ear­ly sec­ond half fin­ish from Ajani Clarence, saw the "Tigers" win their 19th con­sec­u­tive match of the sea­son and the Na­tion­al In­ter­Col ti­tle for the fifth time in the school's 42-year his­to­ry. The 'Tigers' al­so won the North In­ter­Col and League ti­tles as well as the Big Five crown. De­spite both teams start­ing slow­ly, the in­ten­si­ty of the match in­creased. St An­tho­ny's should have gone in­to the dress­ing room at half-time three goals up, while Ari­ma North looked all but cer­tain to record at least one goal in the first pe­ri­od.

Ari­ma's de­fence looked sol­id for most of the first half with Ron­dell Elie and his con­ser­v­a­tive coun­ter­parts stand­ing firm.

The team clad in roy­al blue, should have tak­en the lead in the 17th minute, when a sim­ple cross from Kei­th Williams was dropped from the hands of St An­tho­ny's goal­keep­er Jam­mal Fran­cois. Tevin Fi­garo and oth­er Ari­ma at­tack­ers were lurk­ing in the area, but the Tigers de­fence man­aged to clear the ball from dan­ger. Two min­utes lat­er, St An­tho­ny's had their first clear sight of goal, when Ray­chard Allen swung in a cor­ner to meet Adri­an Mil­lette, but he scuffed his at­tempt and saw it come off the wood­work.

St An­tho­ny's fi­nal­ly took the lead in the next at­tack. Col­lect­ing a loose ball from the edge of the penal­ty area, in the 20th minute, Trim took a snap shot, which was pushed wide by Ari­ma "stop­per" Joseph Craig. Trim fol­lowed the blocked shot to fin­ish in­stinc­tive­ly from a tight an­gle be­fore Craig had time to re­cov­er. The open­ing goal saw the be­gin­ning of a qui­et spell be­tween the two teams. This was be­fore, St An­tho­ny's were award­ed a cor­ner in the 33rd minute, which was head­ed in from Ce­bal­lo. The team which won the semi­fi­nal match against Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege on two cor­ners, re­as­sured their dom­i­nance on set plays. The deep cross from Rayshard Allen found a wait­ing Ce­bal­lo who out­jumped two of his mark­ers to fin­ish eas­i­ly past Craig.

Ari­ma's best chance of the first half came from a counter at­tack in the 43rd minute. Mar­cus Gomez, who start­ed on the bench but was in­tro­duced in the 15th minute, passed the ball in­to the path of a speed­ing Dar­ius Rawl­ins. Rawl­ins made an ex­cel­lent run in­to the box, and found him­self in a one-on-one po­si­tion with Fran­cois, but missed the en­tire goal with a dis­ap­point­ing fin­ish. Just be­fore the half time, St An­tho­ny's should have found the third goal through a tire-less Kean Mc Ivor. He al­so did every­thing right by beat­ing the keep­er and putting the ball on­to his favoured left foot. But two me­ters away from the goal, Mc Ivor took a shot which found the side net­ting. De­spite the miss, St An­tho­ny's went in­to the half con­fi­dent and re­turned the same. Not many clear-cut chances were pre­sent­ed for the ma­jor­i­ty of the sec­ond half, but St An­tho­ny's was in con­trol. The team al­low­ing the mid­field­ers the ma­jor­i­ty off pos­ses­sion with sub­tle close range pass­es, al­lowed very lit­tle in the of­fen­sive for Ari­ma. With 79 min­utes gone, St An­tho­ny's fi­nal­ly made it 3-0. Ari­ma North fell asleep for the third goal as the sim­plest of tap-ins from Clarence, wrapped up the match for the ruth­less "Tigers". The match was clear­ly over, as Ari­ma hung their heads for the re­main­ing of the match.

The dif­fer­ences in the play­ers on ei­ther end were ev­i­dent. Ari­ma im­pressed dur­ing the sea­son, but the play­ers stood lit­tle chance against a stronger and fit­ter St An­tho­ny's team. Few op­por­tu­ni­ties arose in the sec­ond half for ei­ther team. St An­tho­ny's may have made it 4-0, had the for­wards played with more ur­gency, but the re­sult was sealed. Ari­ma North failed to over­turn the re­sult of the 2003 In­ter­Col fi­nal which saw St An­tho­ny's win 3-2. The sound of the fi­nal whis­tle was met with ap­plause from the spec­ta­tors in the half filled cov­ered stands of the na­tion­al sta­di­um. The play­ers then went on to lift the cham­pi­onship tro­phy.


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