Omari Camp­bell and Nathaniel O’Gar­ro scored two goals each to lead four-time win­ners and de­fend­ing cham­pi­ons Na­pari­ma Col­lege to an em­phat­ic 9-1 come-from-be­hind win over St Au­gus­tine Sec­ondary to kick off the de­fence of their ti­tle in the Tiger Tanks Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Pre­mier Di­vi­sion at Warn­er Street, St Au­gus­tine, on Wednes­day.

Com­ing on the heels of their 3-2 penal­ty-kick loss to long-time ri­val and cur­rent Co­ca-Co­la In­ter-Col hold­ers Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege of San Fer­nan­do in the SS­FL Tiger Tanks Cup sea­son open­er on Fri­day at the Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va, first-year coach Travis Mul­raine, a for­mer na­tion­al play­er was keen for his Na­pari­ma play­ers to bounce back in their Group A open­er.

How­ev­er, against the run of play, it was the “Green Ma­chine” of St Au­gus­tine, un­der the guid­ance of an­oth­er first-year coach Tacuma Jones, who took a sur­prise lead with­in six min­utes of the start af­ter some clum­sy de­fend­ing by the vis­i­tors.

But that turned out to be the lone bright spot for St Au­gus­tine on the af­ter­noon as Camp­bell and O’Gar­ro got braces while Kanye Fran­cis, An­dres France, Is­rael Joseph, and Ter­rell Ra­joon were all on tar­get along with an own goal to cap off the win.

Speak­ing af­ter the lop­sided con­test Mul­raine said it was nice to see that his play­ers were able to re­bound and get the win away from home af­ter the dis­ap­point­ment of los­ing the Tiger Tank Cup clash.

“The de­feat against Pre­sen­ta­tion came like a bless­ing in dis­guise to us and young play­ers have a ten­den­cy to be­come com­pla­cent and tast­ing de­feat ear­ly in the sea­son was a good wake-up call.

“Even to­day in the win, it was ev­i­dent that again we saw some com­pla­cen­cy in our game with play­ers want­i­ng to run too much with the ball, and that is some­thing we have to curb, go­ing for­ward,” said Mul­raine.

In the oth­er match­es in Group A, Spey­side High School got a dou­ble from Jar­lon Top­pin in the 13th and 77th while Reyes Gray, Lenox East­man, and Milz John­son added one each in 5-0 beat­ing of hosts Cara­pichaima East Sec­ondary at Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va; St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege got first-half strikes from Joshua Mil­lette and Mordi­cai Forde to blank Pleas­antville Sec­ondary 2-0 at Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Train­ing Field, Mara­bel­la, and St Bene­dict’s Col­lege got a sec­ond-half strike from Ephraim Brown to earn a 1-1 draw with trav­el­ling Fa­ti­ma Col­lege who had tak­en the lead via Khi­ba Ro­many at the Moru­ga Mul­ti­pur­pose Sport and Youth Fa­cil­i­ty.

Yes­ter­day’s re­sults

Na­pari­ma Col­lege 9 (Omari Camp­bell 2, Nathaniel O’Gar­ro 2, Kanye Fran­cis, An­dres France, Is­rael Joseph, Ter­rell Ra­joon, own goal) vs St Au­gus­tine Sec 1 (Jor­dan Fer­di­nand)

Spey­side High 5 (Reyes Gray 3rd, Jar­lon Top­pin 13th, 77th, Lenox East­man 84th, Milz John­son 90th) vs

Cara­pichaima East Sec. 0

Fa­ti­ma Col­lege 1 (Khi­ba Ro­many) vs St Bene­dict’s Col­lege 1 (Ephraim Brown)

St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege 2 (Joshua Mil­lette, Mor­da­cia Forde) vs Pleas­antville Sec 0

SAT­UR­DAY’S MATCH­ES

Group A

St Bene­dict’s Col­lege vs Cara­pichaima East Sec @ Ato Boldon Sta­di­um, Cou­va

Fa­ti­ma Col­lege vs Na­pari­ma Col­lege @ Fa­ti­ma Grounds, Mu­cu­rapo Road

Spey­side High School vs St An­tho­ny’s Col­lege @ Spey­side

St Au­gus­tine Sec­ondary vs P)leas­antville Sec­ondary @ St Au­gus­tine Ground, Warn­er Street