For­mer cham­pi­on Na­pari­ma Col­lege, reign­ing Na­tion­al In­ter-Col cham­pi­on Fa­ti­ma Col­lege, and San Juan North Sec­ondary re­mained the teams with 100 per­cent win­ning records af­ter Round Three match­es in the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) Pre­mier Di­vi­sion, on Wednes­day.

At Lewis Street, San Fer­nan­do, the Travis Mul­raine-coached three-time cham­pi­ons Na­pari­ma made it three wins on the trot in their quest to re­claim their ti­tle with a com­fort­able 9-0 win over fel­low south­ern­ers Pleas­antville Sec­ondary.

For Na­pari­ma, who had to come from be­hind to beat St Mary's Col­lege away 3-2 in the pre­vi­ous round, Kevin Fran­cois and Kanye Fran­cis, each scored a pair of goals while Jaron Pas­cal, cap­tain Tyrel Ra­joon, Aaron Ray­mond and Is­rael Joseph added one apiece to­geth­er with an own goal from the vis­i­tors.

At Mu­cu­rapo Road, Fa­ti­ma came away with a 5-0 win against pre­vi­ous­ly per­fect East Mu­cu­rapo Sec­ondary in the 'Mu­cu­rapo Road" der­by with Michael Chaves, sub­sti­tute Thomas De­cle, Chris­t­ian Bai­ley, and an­oth­er sub­sti­tute Justin Al­can­tara (two), all get­ting on the score­sheet.

Fa­ti­ma opened the scor­ing af­ter on­ly eight min­utes when Aidan De Gannes won a 50-50 chal­lenge with a East Mu­cu­rapo de­fend­er and picked out an un­marked Chaves, who col­lect­ed and with time and space ri­fled a right-foot­ed ef­fort in­to the far cor­ner.

As the match went on, East Mu­cu­rapo came in­to their own, but their mo­men­tum was halt­ed when ref­er­ee Tim­o­thy Der­ry was forced to pause the con­test for safe­ty rea­sons due to light­ning flash­es in the 31st minute.

When the match re­sumed af­ter a 20-minute break, East Mu­cu­rapo cre­at­ed the best chance through a coun­ter­at­tack with Clint Latch­man pick­ing out Je­mon Gul­ston just in­side the 18-yard box, but af­ter elud­ing de­fend­er Yohance Ather­ton, his right-foot­ed ef­fort was bril­liant­ly kept out by a save low down to his left by goal­keep­er Tris­tan Ed­wards to pre­serve Fa­ti­ma's lead.

How­ev­er, East Mu­cu­rapo then suf­fered a blow when Latch­man was is­sued a straight red card for vi­o­lent con­duct by ref­er­ee Tim­o­thy Der­ry, leav­ing his team to play the re­main­der of the half, and the en­tire sec­ond 45 min­utes with ten men while Fa­ti­ma's Chris­t­ian Dai­ley was shown a yel­low from the same in­ci­dent.

Sev­en min­utes in­to the sec­ond half, De­cle was picked out by a right-sided cross by Bai­ley, and from less than six yards out he dou­bled his team's ad­van­tage as they be­gan to stamp their au­thor­i­ty on the con­test with the ex­tra man.

Six min­utes lat­er, Bai­ley all but se­cured the three points for the home team when he slot­ted in­to an open net be­fore Al­can­tara added items in the 68th and 90th minute, to put the ic­ing on the com­mand­ing win with the score­line not re­al­ly a true re­flec­tion of the ef­fort from the Dale Saun­ders-coached East Mu­cu­rapo.

Not too far away at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la, the Jer­ry Moe-coached San Juan North al­so made three out of three in the win col­umn thanks to a brace from Queen's Roy­al Col­lege (QRC) trans­fer Nathan Quashie, with a goal com­ing in each half against Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege of San Fer­nan­do.

At Park Street Recre­ation Ground, Mor­vant, for­mer SS­FL pow­er­house Mal­ick Sec­ondary record­ed the biggest win on the day, 10-0 over Ch­agua­nas North Sec­ondary with Ronald­in­ho Richards and J'Lon Matthews scor­ing braces while team­mates Malachi Wood­ley, Ac­k­eem James, Oba Samuel, Ke­ston Richards, Zachary Joseph, and Jor­dan Fer­di­nand were al­so on tar­get.

At St Mary's Col­lege ground, Ser­pen­tine Road, St Clair, vis­i­tor Ari­ma North pro­duced the shock re­sult of the day when they slammed fel­low pro­mot­ed team and Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion 2022 win­ners St Mary's Col­lege 8-1 in­spired by a hat trick from Tyrell Sta­ple­ton and a dou­ble by Dar­i­on Mar­fan.

The trio of cap­tain Ja­maul Ash­ing, Theron O'Brien and Abil­i­ty Hazel al­so found the tar­get against the reel­ing 'Saints' who got a late con­so­la­tion item from their skip­per Kyle Phillip, in their sec­ond straight de­feat.

Over in To­ba­go, de­fend­ing Pre­mier Di­vi­sion ‘Big-Four’ cham­pi­ons St Bene­dict’s fi­nal­ly picked up its first points of the sea­son in a 3-0 win over Bish­op's High School with Malachi Webb, Jaden Grant and Daniel Jones at the Ply­mouth Recre­ation Ground.

In oth­er match­es yes­ter­day, St An­tho­ny's got its first points of the cam­paign in a 2-1 home win over Spey­side in West­moor­ings and QRC won for the sec­ond straight con­test, 1-0 away to Trin­i­ty Col­lege East with Tau Lam­see on tar­get in Trinci­ty. Match­es re­sume on Sat­ur­day.

Wednes­day's re­sults:

St Bene­dict's 3 (Malachi Webb, Jade Grant, Daniel Jones) vs Bish­op's High 0

Fa­ti­ma 5 (Michael Chaves 8th, Thomas De­cle 52nd, Chris­t­ian Bai­ley 58th, Justin Al­can­tara 68th, 90th) vs East Mu­cu­rapo 0

Mal­ick 10 (Ronald­in­ho Richards 2, J'Lon Matthews 2, Malachi Wood­ley, Ac­k­eem James , Oba Samuel, Ke­ston Richards, Zachary Joseph, Jor­dan Fer­di­nand) vs Ch­agua­nas North Sec 0

Na­pari­ma 9 (Kevin Fran­cois 2, Kanye Fran­cis 2, Jaron Pas­cal, Tyrel Ra­joon, Aaron Ray­mond, Is­rael Joseph, own goal) vs Pleas­antville Sec 0

San Juan North 2 (Nathan Quashie 2) vs Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege 0

St An­tho­ny's Col­lege 2 (Daniel Rose, Oba­di­ah Eye­ad­el­rosiy­hia) vs Spey­side 1 (Omar Daniel)

Ari­ma North 8 (Tyrell Sta­ple­ton 3, Dar­i­on Mar­fan 2, Ja­maul Ash­ing, Theron O'Brien, Abil­i­ty Hazel) vs St Mary's 1 (Kyle Phillip)

QRC 1 (Tau Lam­see) vs Trin­i­ty Col­lege East 0

Cur­rent stand­ings:

Po­si­tions*Teams*P*W*D*L*F*A*Pts

1.Na­pari­ma Col­lege*3*3*0*0*22*2*9

2.Fa­ti­ma Col­lege*3*3*0*0*14*0*9

3. San Juan North*3*3*0*0*11*3*9

4. East Mu­cu­rapo*3*2*0*1*3*6*6

5. Mal­ick*3*2*0*1*13*2*6

6. QRC*3*2*0*1*3*3*6

7. Ari­ma North*3*1*2*0*9*2*5

8. Pre­sen­ta­tion*3*1*1*1*1*2*4

9. St Bene­dict's Col­lege*3*1*0*2*6*5*3

10. Spey­side Sec*3*1*0*2*4*4*3

11. St Mary's Col­lege*3*1*0*2*11*11*3

12. St An­tho­ny's Col­lege*3*1*0*2*2*9*3

13. Ch­agua­nas North*3*1*0*2*1*20*3

14. Trin­i­ty East*3*0*1*2*2*4*1

15. Bish­op's High*3*0*0*3*1*7*0

16. Pleas­antville*3*0*0*3*0*22*0