Daniel Jones and Mala­cai Webb net­ted sec­ond-half goals as St Bene­dict’s Col­lege came from 1-0 down at the half-time in­ter­val to make a suc­cess­ful de­fence of their Boys Se­nior (Un­der-20) Di­vi­sion ti­tle in the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) with a 2-1 de­feat of Fa­ti­ma Col­lege at the Man­nie Ramjohn Sta­di­um train­ing field, Mara­bel­la, on Tues­day in a re­peat of last year's fi­nal.

The North Zone cham­pi­on made a pos­i­tive start to the con­test when Sha­heim O'Brien scored the open­ing goal which they took in­to the half, how­ev­er on the re­sump­tion, Jones drew St Bene­dict's lev­el be­fore Webb reg­is­tered the de­ci­sive item.

In the semi­fi­nals, St Bene­dict’s got a goal each from four dif­fer­ent play­ers in their 4-2 de­feat of East Zone cham­pi­on Hillview Col­lege at the Lar­ry Gomes Sta­di­um in Mal­abar, Ari­ma on Fri­day.

For St Bene­dict’s, Ky­lon Cayenne opened the scor­ing in the tenth minute but Aaron Rock got Hillview lev­el, for both teams to go in 1-1 at the half-time in­ter­val.

Hillview stunned the vis­i­tors when Chris­t­ian Aaron put the hosts ahead in the 68th but their joy was short­lived as Nathan George drew St Bene­dict’s lead five min­utes lat­er fol­lowed by Jaden Grant’s item in the 85th to re­gain the lead be­fore Ja­hel Lewis net­ted an in­sur­ance item in the 90th to seal the win and set up the meet­ing with Fa­ti­ma, whom they de­feat­ed 3-1 in an en­ter­tain­ing fi­nal last year at Fa­ti­ma Col­lege ground.

On Thurs­day, Fa­ti­ma play­ing at home turned on the style against Cen­tral Zone win­ner, Mara­bel­la South in a 10-0 thump­ing led by two goals each from the trio of Justin Al­can­tara, Luke Cor­reia and Michael Chaves. The quar­tet of O’Brien, Aiden De Gannes, Zeke Prescod and Levi Smith chipped in with the oth­er goals for Fa­ti­ma.

Naps, Sig­nal Hill face off for U-14 SS­FL crown

Na­pari­ma Col­lege and Sig­nal Hill Sec­ondary will meet Wednes­day for the Na­tion­al SS­FL Boys U-14 Di­vi­sion crown at Lewis Street, San Fer­nan­do from 3 pm.

This af­ter Na­pari­ma crushed Ari­ma North 7-1 in the Trinidad fi­nal at Ari­ma North while Sig­nal Hill lift­ed the To­ba­go ti­tle af­ter end­ing its sev­en-team round-robin se­ries with a per­fect 6-0 record and a max­i­mum of 18 points, six clear of run­ner-up Spey­side High.

In the Trinidad semi­fi­nals, Ari­ma North whipped Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege of Ch­agua­nas and Na­pari­ma, the South Zone win­ner, bat­tled past North Zone cham­pi­on Queen's Roy­al Col­lege (QRC), 2-1.