Scar­bor­ough Methodist and Table­piece Gov­ern­ment emerged as the cham­pi­on girls' schools of the 2024 Na­tion­al Pri­ma­ry Schools Net­ball League.

Scar­bor­ough Methodist got the bet­ter of St Gabriel's Ro­man Catholic in the post­poned league ti­tle de­cider at the Shaw Park Hard Court in Scar­bor­ough on Mon­day (June 17). Scar­bor­ough, the To­ba­go Dis­trict win­ner, pre­vailed 11-8 over the Vic­to­ria cham­pi­on St Gabriel's RC.

Scar­bor­ough was first to score, get­ting the open­ing goal three min­utes in­to the match with goal at­tack Tineil Bur­ris, the scor­er. Lanky Bur­ris fired up the Scar­bor­ough sup­port­ers as she was re­spon­si­ble for the next three goals to give the ma­roon-clad girls a 4-0 lead. The St Gabriel's play­ers even­tu­al­ly got on the score sheets af­ter nine min­utes when goal-shoot­er Ake­ba An­drews con­vert­ed. An­drews and her team­mates ral­lied back to trail 6-4 at half­time.

On the re­sump­tion, Scar­bor­ough re­gained the up­per hand with four unan­swered goals to ex­tend the ad­van­tage to 8-4 thanks again to Bur­ris up front and time­ly de­fend­ing by pe­tite goal-keep­er Naalainee Thomas.

How­ev­er, their op­po­nents fought back with sol­id de­fend­ing by goal-de­fence Adrielle Joseph which led to turnovers for her team. An­drews hit her shots as St Gabriel's cut the lead to 9-8. Bur­ris took Scar­bor­ough to the ti­tle as she launched the fi­nal goal to send the Scar­bor­ough fans in­to a fren­zy. Bur­ris was the top scor­er of the match with nine goals from 12 at­tempts in on­ly her first year in the sport. Goal-shoot­er Kali­ah Williams con­tributed two goals. An­drews end­ed with six goals for the run­ner-up.

Ear­li­er in the day, Table­piece cap­tured the girls' team shoot­ing ho­n­ours dis­miss­ing Barataria An­gli­can. The Table­piece girls set the stan­dard scor­ing 77 of their 130 at­tempts.

She­li­cia James was the top per­former for Table­piece with 27 goals from 45 shots, fol­lowed by Kene­cia Roach­ford (25/41) and Dayshell Matthews (25/44). In re­sponse, the Barataria girls got 46 of their 113 tries on tar­get with Keiana Pierre (17/37) lead­ing for Barataria. Adyana Dun­can (15/42) was next best ahead of No­la Patrick (14/34).

Sec­re­tary of Ed­u­ca­tion, Re­search and Tech­nol­o­gy of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly Zor­isha Hack­ett pre­sent­ed the win­ners and run­ners-up with their medals and tro­phies.

The Girls League and Team Shoot­ing fi­nals were orig­i­nal­ly sched­uled for June 5 at Shaw Park along with the fi­nals of the Boys and Girls In­di­vid­ual and Boys Team Shoot­ing com­pe­ti­tions as well as the Girls In­ter Dis­trict fi­nale.

How­ev­er, due to chal­lenges in se­cur­ing re­turn fligĥts from To­ba­go the fi­nals in­volv­ing on­ly Trinidad schools and play­ers were held at the Mal­oney In­door Sports Are­na on June 5.

Barataria An­gli­can took the Boys' League ti­tle while En­ter­prise Gov­er­ment pre­vailed in the Boys Team Shoot­ing con­test.

San Fer­nan­do SDA's Ade­sha Ma­rine ruled the Girls' In­di­vid­ual Shoot­ing di­vi­sion with Samuel Williams of Barataria An­gli­can beat­ing the boys' field. St George East was crowned Girls In­ter Dis­trict cham­pi­on.

Re­sults

Fi­nal: Scar­bor­ough Methodist 11 (Kali­ah Williams 2/6, Tineil Bur­ris 9/12) vs St Gabriel's Ro­man Catholic 8 (Ake­ba An­drews 6/14, Amarie Gomez 2/2). Half time 6-4

Team Shoot­ing: 1 Table­piece Gov­ern­ment 77/130 (Dayshell Matthews 25/44, Kene­cia Roach­ford 25/41, She­li­cia James 27/45); 2 Barataria An­gli­can 46/113 (No­la Patrick 14/34, Keiana Pierre 17/37, Adyana Dun­can 15/42).

Teams

Scar­bor­ough Methodist

Ken­ley Thom (cap­tain), Tineil Bur­ris, Eyan­na Gibbs, Mc­Que­da John, Bris­tol Lewis, Jaya McKen­na, Megan Roopchan, Abriyana Sobers, Narlainee Thomas, Na­ja Thomas, Kali­ah Williams, K'Lise Wil­son.

Coach - Ayana Bur­roughs

St Gabriel's RC

Meli­na Lopez (cap­tain), Alian­na Al­leyne, Ake­ba An­drews, Mia Bal­lyti­na, Cata­leya Charleau, Ar­i­an­na Dube, Josean Glas­gow, Amerie Gomez, Adrielle Joseph, Shawn­dra Marchan, Jenis­sa Mor­ri­son, Gabrielle Spencer.

Coach - Giselle Williams