Ce­line Lo­raine scored the win­ner for Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary School to be crowned the Girls' "Big Five" cham­pi­on in the Shell/First Cit­i­zens Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League on Wednes­day.

Here we go again - com­plaints about the Queen's Park Oval's pitch. The lat­est sal­vo comes from none oth­er than Floyd Reifer, head coach of the West In­dies Emerg­ing Play­ers Team who, re­port­ed­ly, is less than im­pressed with the “be­nign” play­ing sur­faces be­ing pre­pared for match­es at the Oval.

Na­pari­ma Col­lege and Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege will clash for yet an­oth­er time in the fi­nal of the South Zone of the Co­ca Co­la In­ter­Col on Mon­day.

LUC­KNOW—West In­dies as­sis­tant coach Rod­dy Es­t­wick has hailed the work of his bowlers but be­lieves there is still much work to be done if the team is to be­come a ma­jor force again in the white-ball for­mats.

T&T's cy­cling quar­tet of Njisane Phillip, Nicholas Paul, Keron Bram­ble and Kwe­si Browne left on Wednes­day to con­test the first of three World Cups in Hong Kong, be­ing used as a qual­i­fi­er for the Olympic Games in Tokyo Japan next year.

Lu­ann Craig put on a grand per­for­mance to lift Five Rivers Sec­ondary School to the Mal­ta Girls Un­der-15 Di­vi­sion Trinidad ti­tle in the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League.

Stafanie Tay­lor and De­an­dra Dot­tin have be­come the first West In­dies play­ers to sign up for the women’s Hun­dred, join­ing Aus­tralians Jess Jonassen and Rachael Haynes and South Africa’s Mignon du Preez as each of the com­pe­ti­tion’s eight teams un­veiled a new mar­quee play­er yes­ter­day.

For­mer na­tion­al team coach Stephen Hart has won his US$742,444 (TT$5 mil­lion) law­suit against the T&T Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­tion (TTFA) over un­paid salary and ben­e­fits from his three-year stint in charge of the So­ca War­riors. 

The all too fa­mil­iar song of 'lack of fund­ing' is be­ing heard again, this time with a crescen­do from the T&T Box­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TT­BA).

Cara­pichaima East Sec­ondary suc­cess­ful­ly de­fend­ed their Co­ca Co­la In­ter­col Cen­tral Zone ti­tle with a 2-1 win over Ch­agua­nas North Sec­ondary on Wednes­day, be­com­ing the first team to book a place in the na­tion­al play­offs in the process.

Prime Min­is­ter Dr Kei­th Row­ley says the foot­ball fra­ter­ni­ty should have no more ex­cus­es for its poor state, both on and off the field, in the fu­ture now.

Fast bowler Rons­ford Beat­on is now set to un­der­go an eval­u­a­tion of his ac­tion af­ter he was re­port­ed by um­pires for a sus­pect bowl­ing ac­tion dur­ing the on­go­ing Su­per50 Cup.