Five Rivers Sec­ondary have every­thing to play for Wednes­day as they face Pleas­antville Sec­ondary in the Girls’ Na­tion­al In­ter­col fi­nal at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Bal­main, Cou­va, start­ing at 3 pm.

It will be a fight to the death be­tween the two teams with the na­tion­al ti­tle at stake. Pleas­antville Sec­ondary will be led by its in­stru­men­tal strik­er, Niki­ta Go­sine, and her sis­ter, Na­talia Go­sine, this af­ter­noon. Last year, they just missed out on the crown by los­ing to a dom­i­nant St Joseph Con­vent, Port-of-Spain, out­fit, but hav­ing gained the per­fect re­venge in the semi­fi­nals last week, the South­ern­ers are ea­ger to make up for their loss last year.

Man­ag­er Jil­lian Hug­gins said her charges will deal with all that Five Rivers has to of­fer this af­ter­noon.

“I per­son­al­ly have not seen them play, but I have con­fi­dence that my coach­es, Bri­an Lon­don and Joel Mal­oney, have seen them and will come up with the right strat­e­gy to earn them the ti­tle this af­ter­noon.

The South­ern­ers who de­feat­ed St Joseph’s Con­vent Port-of-Spain 5-0 in their semi­fi­nal matchup are stacked with a num­ber of high-pro­file play­ers, such as the Go­sine sis­ters (Niki­ta and Na­talia), Zara Chase, and Kae­ley Mar­tin, among many oth­ers, while the East­ern­ers will pin their hopes on Hac­k­eema Goodridge and Jay­da Her­bert, among oth­ers, fol­low­ing their semi­fi­nal win against Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary cour­tesy of a strike from Goodridge to emerge vic­to­ri­ous 1-0 on Sat­ur­day.

Sylvester San­di­ford, the Five Rivers man­ag­er, as­sured that once his play­ers, such as Goodridge, Shaquil­la Daniel, Mari­ah Matthews, and Amee­da Bow­man, can click on the day, they will come away the vic­to­ri­ous team.

Five Rivers has it all to play for with the Un­der-15 Na­tion­al fi­nal ti­tle on De­cem­ber 29, when they face Bish­op’s High School in the sis­ter isle of To­ba­go, the se­nior na­tion­al In­ter­col fi­nal to­day, and the Big Five ti­tle.

On Mon­day, the East­ern­ers clinched the Trinidad leg of the Un­der-15 crown by ham­mer­ing St Joseph’s Con­vent, Port-of-Spain, 6-0 on the St Joseph’s Con­vent Ground. Four goals from Goodridge and two from the boot of Jay­da Her­bert did the trick for the east­ern­ers to ad­vance to the fi­nal.

Fol­low­ing the girl’s con­test will be a clash of the Boys’ Na­tion­al In­ter­col fi­nal be­tween Na­pari­ma Col­lege and Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary, a re­match of the Boys’ Pre­mier Di­vi­sion fi­nal match, which Na­pari­ma won 2-1 to clinch the ti­tle 14 days ago.

Both teams earned fi­nal berths cour­tesy of con­trast­ing jour­neys. Na­pari­ma, the 2025 South Zone In­ter­col win­ners and Pre­mier Di­vi­sion cham­pi­ons, will go af­ter a clean sweep of the ti­tles at stake against the To­bag­o­ni­ans, who won the To­ba­go In­ter­col last week and will be look­ing for re­venge in the most cov­et­ed ti­tle in school­boy foot­ball.

The na­tion­al In­ter­col fi­nal will kick off at 5 pm this af­ter­noon at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um in Bal­main, Cou­va, in the sec­ond match of a dou­ble­head­er.

For­mer na­tion­al se­nior men’s coach and play­er An­gus Eve guid­ed his lads to record a 1-0 win over St Au­gus­tine Sec­ondary School from the penal­ty spot in a lop­sided af­fair last week in the Na­tion­al zon­al se­mi-fi­nal, while Sig­nal Hill got the bet­ter of St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege 1-0 at the Hase­ly Craw­ford Sta­di­um in Mu­cu­rapo on Sat­ur­day.