Jaiye Shep­pard scored a hat-trick to lead De­portive P.F Youths to an em­phat­ic 6-1 maul­ing of SP Boyz in their Next Lev­el Con­sult­ing (NLC) Lim­it­ed Un­der-19 Di­vi­sion Com­mu­ni­ty In­vi­ta­tion­al Foot­ball Tour­na­ment quar­ter­fi­nal at the Ma­haica Oval, Pt Fortin on Sat­ur­day.

Shep­pard who at­tends Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege of San Fer­nan­do was vot­ed as the 2019 Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League af­ter his 14 goals on the sea­son helped claimed the Co­ca-Co­la South zone In­ter­Col crown and first-ever Na­tion­al In­ter­Col ti­tle for his school.

The trio of Ezekiel Ke­sar, Yohan Ro­mano, and Rae­sean Paul were al­so on tar­get for De­porti­vo P.F Youths who will now meet Gas­par­il­lo Youths in the semi­fi­nals at the Ma­yaro Recre­ation Ground on Feb­ru­ary 8 from 1.45 pm, while MaGuaya Unit­ed and DCS/Dass Trace clash in the sec­ond semi­fi­nal from 3.45 pm. Ma­lik Phillip net­ted the lone item for SP Boyz.

On Sun­day last in the fi­nal quar­ter­fi­nal at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la Field 1, Gas­par­il­lo Youth won for the 11th straight match, a come-from-be­hind 2-1 tri­umph against All Blacks FC.

Jaden Grant fired All Blacks FC ahead but Gas­par­il­lo Youths got strikes from Ri­car­do Williams and Nikel Rawl­ins to se­cure the win.

DCS/Dass Trace got the bet­ter of Trend­set­ter Hawks 7-6 on sud­den-death penal­ty kicks af­ter a goal­less draw in their last-eight match-up while MaGuaya Unit­ed whipped Mas­call Foot­ball Acad­e­my 3-1

For MaGuaya Unit­ed, Isa Bram­ble an­oth­er stand­out in the 2019 SS­FL Pre­mier Di­vi­sion for Na­pari­ma Col­lege net­ted two goals while Deck­lan Mar­celle added the third item to can­cel out Matthew-Lee Cum­mings' re­ply for Mas­call Foot­ball Acad­e­my.

Fol­low­ing the semi­fi­nals on Sat­ur­day, the third-place and cham­pi­onship games are sched­uled to be played at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um on Feb­ru­ary 16.

Teams in the tour­na­ment are vy­ing for $10,000 in cash prizes spon­sored by Next Lev­el Con­sult­ing Lim­it­ed, as well as, the cham­pi­onship tro­phy, medals, and oth­er prizes, while the “Most Valu­able Play­er” (MVP) of the tour­na­ment will be go­ing on tri­al in the Cana­di­an Pro­fes­sion­al League with the Hal­i­fax Wan­der­ers.

The win­ners will col­lect $5,000 while the sec­ond-place fin­ish­er gets $3,000 and third and fourth, $1,500 and $500 re­spec­tive­ly.

Tour­na­ment or­ga­niz­ers are ex­treme­ly thank­ful to spon­sors, Ram­lo­gan & Sons Sports (Cou­va & Mara­bel­la), Ram­s­ingh Sports­world, and Mar­itime Fi­nan­cial Group

Next Lev­el Con­sult­ing, Lim­it­ed is a reg­is­tered lo­cal small busi­ness spe­cial­iz­ing in res­i­den­tial and com­mer­cial se­cu­ri­ty cam­eras, alarms, and gate mo­tors. We wish to in­vite oth­er busi­ness­es, big and small, to in­vest in youth, foot­ball and our lo­cal com­mu­ni­ties.

Quar­ter­fi­nal re­sults

On Sat­ur­day (Ma­haica Oval, Pt Fortin)

DCS/Dass Trace 0 vs Trend­set­ter Hawks 0 - DCS/Dass Trace won 7-6 on sud­den-death penal­ty-kicks

De­porti­vo P.F. Youths 6 (Jaiye Shep­pard 3, Ezekiel Ke­sar, Yohan Ro­mano, Rae­sean Paul) vs SP Boyz 1 (Ma­lik Phillip)

On Sun­day(Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um, Mara­bel­la Field 1)

MaGuaya Unit­ed 3 (Isa Bram­ble 2, Deck­lan Mar­celle) vs Mas­call Foot­ball Acad­e­my 1 (Matthew-Lee Cum­mings)

Gas­par­il­lo Youths 2 (Ri­car­do Williams, Nikel Rawl­ins) vs All Blacks FC 1 (Jaden Grant)

Next Lev­el Con­sult­ing Lim­it­ed U-19 Di­vi­sion Com­mu­ni­ty In­vi­ta­tion­al Foot­ball Tour­na­ment:

Fi­nal Pool stand­ings

Pool A

Teams*P*W*D*L*F*A*Pts

MaGuaya Unit­ed*6*5*0*1*24*7*16

SP Boyz*6*3*0*3*15*18*9

Trend­set­ter Hawks*6*1*2*3*15*15*5

Hearts of Mal­oney*6*1*1*4*9*23*4

Pool B

Gas­par­il­lo Youths*10*10*0*0*25*7*30

DCS/Dass Trace*10*6*1*3*17*9*19

De­porti­vo P.F Youths*10*4*1*5*21*12*13

Mas­call F.A*10*4*1*5*14*13*13

All Blacks FC*10*3*0*7*8*19*9

P/Town Achiev­ers*10*1*1*8*8*31*4

Up­com­ing match­es

Semi­fi­nals (Feb­ru­ary 8)

Venue: Ma­yaro Recre­ation Ground:

Gas­par­il­lo Youths vs De­porti­vo P.F. Youths, 1.45 pm

MaGuaya Unit­ed vs DCS/Dass Trace, 3.45 pm