National senior men's hockey player Jordan Reynos led from the front as last year's champions, Queen's Royal College avoided demotion to the North Championship Division of the T&T Hockey Board Secondary Schools League on Friday at the St James Police Barracks Training Ground, St James.
Playing a four-team round-robin playoff series, Reynos and the Royalians, who were fourth placed in the five-team Premier Division with six points, the same as second and third placed teams St Mary's College and South East Port-of-Spain, but with an inferior goal-difference, topped the series with seven points.
QRC blanked North Championship Division winners' St Anthony College 2-0 with Reynos and Jabari Wyke on strike in their opener. This was followed by a similar 2-0 blanking of South Championship Divisional winners Pleasantville with Reynos and national youth goalkeeper Jacques Poon-Lewis scoring one each and a 1-1 draw with North Gate with Reynos cancelling out Daniel Byer's opener.
North Gate took the other promotion spot to next season's Premier Division with five points after battling to a 0-0 deadlock with Pleasantville and whipping St Anthony's 3-0 led by a double from Byer and the other by Jeshajah Drayton.
...SAGHS promoted to Premier flight
East Zone Championship Division winners, St Augustine Girls High School, gained promotion to the Girls Premier Division after it topped its four-team qualifying series with seven points.
This followed a 2-0 shut-out of Corpus Christi College with Shania Gajadhar and Tiffany Seales on target; 2-1 over Bishops East High School thanks to items from Kherdine Gonsalves and Seales, and a 1-1 draw with SEPoS, with Gajadhar replying to Gabrielle Thompson's go-ahead item.
SEPoS also maintained its status as a Premier Division competitor with five points with a 0-0 draw against Bishops East and a 6-0 spanking of Corpus Christi led by a hat-trick from Felicia King and two from Thompson.
Fatima College and St Joseph's Convent PoS claimed the Boys' and Girls' Premier Division crowns, respectively.
Results
Boys
QRC 2 (Jordan Reynos 5th, Jabari Wyke 8th)
vs St Anthonys 0
Pleasantville 0 vs North Gate 0
QRC 2 (Jordan Reynos 5th, Jacques Poon-Lewis 14th) vs Pleasantville 0
North Gate 3 (Daniel Byer 7th, 14th, Jeshajah Drayton 19th) vs St Anthonys 0
Pleasantville 1 (Isaiah Wylie 14th) vs St Anthony's 1 (Jovan Wren 6th)
QRC 1 (Jordan Reynos 19th) vs North Gate 1 (Daniel Byer 8th)
Standings
Girls
Teams P W D L F A Pts
SEPoS 3 2 1 0 7 1 7
SAGHS 3 2 1 0 5 2 7
Bishops East 3 1 1 1 5 2 4
Corpus Christi 3 0 0 3 0 12 0
Boys
Teams P W D L F A Pts
QRC 3 2 1 0 5 1 7
North Gate 3 1 2 0 4 1 5
Pleasantville 3 0 1 2 1 3 1
St Anthony's 3 0 1 2 1 6 1