?Firts FC San­ta Rosa and Harlem Strik­ers both won their open­ing match­es in Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sions of the T&T Foot­ball Fed­er­a­tion Na­tion­al Youth League on Thurs­day. Play­ing at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va Train­ing Field, San­ta Rosa Un­der-17 play­ers blanked Club San­do 2-0 with goals from Jean-Paul Aqui-Blanc in the 52nd minute and Robert Alex­is in the 67th minute.

Harlem Strik­ers and Point Fortin Civic Cen­tre bat­tled to a 1-1 draw in the oth­er U-17 main group en­counter at Fred­er­ick Set­tle­ment, Cou­va. The oth­er team in the five-team round-robin se­ries bmo­bile Joe Pub­lic was on a bye.

Strik­ers com­plet­ed a mis­er­able day for Club San­do as a third minute own-goal hand­ed the Cen­tral-based team a win on at Cou­va in their U-15 Di­vi­sion clash.

Joe Pub­lic, San­ta Rosa and 1976 Phoenix Sports Club are the oth­er teams.

In the Plate Di­vi­sions, Cen­tral Foot­ball Acad­e­my, Queen's Park CC, Moru­ga FC, Point Fortin CC and M&M Har­vard are the U-15 com­pet­ing clubs while Phoenix, De­fence Force, Queen's Park ad Ma­yaro Spurs are in the U-17 age-group.