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Friday, July 4, 2025

Fatima late show stuns San Juan North, Arima North pips Naps

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Nigel Simon
642 days ago
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Speyside's Keston Richards, left, blocks Malick's Jordan Ferdinand attack during the Secondary School Football League premiership match at the St Mary's College grounds in Port of Spain, on September 23. Malick fell to a 2-1 defeat and yesterday was beaten by Trinity College East, by the same margin.

Speyside's Keston Richards, left, blocks Malick's Jordan Ferdinand attack during the Secondary School Football League premiership match at the St Mary's College grounds in Port of Spain, on September 23. Malick fell to a 2-1 defeat and yesterday was beaten by Trinity College East, by the same margin.

DANIEL PRENTICE

Ten-man Fa­ti­ma Col­lege scored three late goals to earn a come-from-be­hind 5-2 tri­umph against the pre­vi­ous­ly per­fect San Juan North Sec­ondary to move to the top of the 16-team Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Pre­mier Di­vi­sion af­ter round six match­es.

This af­ter for­mer joint lead­ers and the oth­er team with a 100 per cent win­ning record head­ing in­to Sat­ur­day’s match­es, four-time win­ner Na­pari­ma saw its un­beat­en start end­ed as well in a 1-0 loss to Ari­ma North at the Uni­ver­si­ty of T&T O’Meara Road Cam­pus, Ari­ma.

At San Juan North Sec­ondary, the host took the lead through in­flu­en­tial mid­field­er and na­tion­al Un­der-17 ace Lin­dell Sween in the 22nd minute but four min­utes lat­er, an ef­fort from Fa­ti­ma’s Eli­jah Ca­ma­cho de­flect­ed off a San Juan North’s play­er in­to his own goal to even up the score at 1-1.

Sev­en min­utes lat­er, Fa­ti­ma re­gained the lead through Aiden De Gannes and looked to be head­ing in­to the break ahead 2-1, on­ly for Nathan Quashie to get San Juan North lev­el once more to leave the con­test nice­ly poised at the half-time whis­tle at 2-2.

How­ev­er, five min­utes in­to the sec­ond half, Fa­ti­ma was re­duced to ten men when cap­tain and de­fend­er Jaden Williams was is­sued a red card.

But San Juan North failed to make use of their play­er ad­van­tage and with three min­utes left in reg­u­la­tion time, Fa­ti­ma stunned the host with Jonathan Ma­son scor­ing the go-ahead item fol­lowed by an­oth­er one minute in­to time added-on for a 4-2 score­line, which was capped off by Michael Chaves’ with the vis­i­tors’ fifth item, sev­en min­utes in­to time added-on to seal the stun­ning win to take their points tal­ly to 16 from six match­es, one ahead of San Juan North and Na­pari­ma, who had its run end­ed cour­tesy a 13th-minute strike for Ari­ma North by Stephano Christo­pher to join East Mu­cu­rapo, St An­tho­ny’s and St Mary’s Col­leges all on nine points.

At the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um in Mara­bel­la, for­mer cham­pi­on Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege of San Fer­nan­do got two goals each from Adah Bar­clay and Vaughn Clement in a 4-0 beat­ing of Bish­op’s High to jump to fourth on the stand­ings with 11 points, one ahead of sur­prise pack­age Spey­side who de­feat­ed cel­lar-placed Pleas­antville at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um train­ing field.

For Spey­side, the trio Lenox East­man, N’kosi Quashie and Riquelme Phillips were all on tar­get while Pleas­antville got its lone re­ply from Kelon Williams.

At Fa­ti­ma ground on Mu­cu­rapo Road, Clint Latch­man, Malachi Hen­ry and Jaden Mc Shine net­ted for East Mu­cu­rapo in a 3-0 win over Ch­agua­nas North; de­fend­ing cham­pi­on St Bene­dict’s Col­lege edged St An­tho­ny’s 1-0 on a goal from Josi­ah Ochoa at the Ma­haica Oval, Point Fortin and St Mary’s ral­lied from 2-0 down to beat Queen’s Roy­al Col­lege (QRC) 4-3 with Kyle Phillip scor­ing a hat trick for the win­ners to can­cel out Stephano James hat trick for the vis­i­tors.

In the oth­er match yes­ter­day, Trin­i­ty Col­lege East got its first win of the sea­son, 2-1 over Mal­ick Sec­ondary with Je­re­mi­ah Frank-Williams and Josi­ah Fi­garo scor­ing af­ter Tyrese Man­swell had giv­en Mal­ick the lead.

Sat­ur­day’s re­sults

St Bene­dict's 1 (Josi­ah Ochoa) vs St An­tho­ny’s 0

East Mu­cu­rapo Sec 3 (Clint Latch­man, Malachi Hen­ry, Jaden Mc Shine) vs Ch­agua­nas North 0

St Mary's (Kyle Phillip 3, Ryan Radel­lant) vs QRC 3 (Stephano James 3)

Pre­sen­ta­tion 4 (Adah Bar­clay 2, Vaughn Clement 2) vs Bish­op's High 0

Spey­side 3 (Lenox East­man, N'kosi Quashie, Riquelme Phillips) vs Pleas­antville 1 (Kelon Williams)

Fa­ti­ma 5 (Jonathan Ma­son 87th, 90+1, own goal 26th, Aidan De Gannes 33rd, Michael Chaves 90+7) vs San Juan North 2 (Lin­dell Sween 222nd, Nathan Quashie 45th)

Ari­ma North 1 (Stephano Christo­pher 13th) vs Na­pari­ma Col­lege 0

Trin­i­ty East 2 (Je­re­mi­ah Frank-Williams 58th, Josi­ah Fi­garo 62nd) vs Mal­ick 1 (Tyrese Man­swell 48th)

Stand­ings

Po­si­tion Team P W D L F A Pts

1 Fa­ti­ma 6 5 1 0 23 2 16

2 Na­pari­ma 6 5 0 1 32 3 15

3 San Juan North 6 5 0 1 16 9 15

4 Pre­sen­ta­tion 6 3 2 1 9 3 11

5 Spey­side 6 3 1 2 10 7 10

6 Ari­ma North 6 2 3 1 11 4 9

7 St An­tho­ny’s 6 3 0 3 15 11 9

8 St Mary’s 6 3 0 3 18 19 9

9 East Mu­cu­rapo 6 3 0 3 8 16 9

10 St Bene­dict’s 6 2 2 2 8 6 8

11 Mal­ick 6 2 0 4 15 9 6

12 QRC 6 2 0 4 7 10 6

13 Trin­i­ty East 5 1 2 2 6 7 5

14 Bish­op’s High 5 1 0 4 2 11 3

15 Ch­agua­nas North 6 1 0 5 2 36 3

16 Pleas­antville 6 0 1 5 3 32 1


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