An­drew Gioan­net­ti

East Zone cham­pi­on St Au­gus­tine will take on South win­ner St Bene­dict's Col­lege in the open­ing semi­fi­nal of the NGC T&T Schools Bas­ket­ball As­so­ci­a­tion Cham­pi­ons of Cham­pi­ons com­pe­ti­tion to­day.The Un­der-15 Boys matchup will be­gin pro­ceed­ings at the Jean Pierre Com­plex, Wright­son Road at 9.45 am where three oth­er zon­al semi­fi­nal match­es will fol­low.At 11.45 am, North East­ern Col­lege will face St Bene­dict's in an U-17 Boys en­counter fol­lowed by an Open Girls match be­tween Mu­cu­rapo West and To­co Sec­ondary at 1.45 pm. In the last semi­fi­nal of the day, NABAC U-20 Boys will take on St Bene­dict's at 2 pm.

On Fri­day, the re­main­ing five semi­fi­nals will take place. Scar­bor­ough Sec­ondary, the To­ba­go cham­pi­on, in all five di­vi­sions, will meet East Mu­cu­rapo (U-15 Boys) at 9 am, To­co Sec­ondary (U-15 Girls) at 10.30 am, Suc­cess Laven­tille Sec­ondary (U-17 Boys) at mid­day, Moru­ga Sec­ondary (Open Girls) at 1.30 pm and fi­nal­ly St Au­gus­tine Sec­ondary at 3 pm.All the win­ning teams from the pre­vi­ous two days will be back in ac­tion on Sat­ur­day for the fi­nals in the re­spec­tive di­vi­sions. At 9.20 am, fol­low­ing the open­ing ad­dress and na­tion­al an­them, the U-15 Boys fi­nal will be con­test­ed fol­lowed by the U-15 Girls fi­nal. At mid­day, the U-17 Boys fi­nal will shoot off. En­ter­tain­ment will be pro­vid­ed by lo­cal artiste Or­lan­do Oc­tave be­fore the Open Girls ad U-20 Boys fi­nals takes place at 2 pm and 3.45 pm, re­spec­tive­ly.