The bat­tle for the top po­si­tion in the Pre­mier Di­vi­sion of the Sec­ondary Schools Foot­ball League (SS­FL) con­tin­ues Sat­ur­day with two un­beat­en teams, San Juan North Sec­ondary and Na­pari­ma Col­lege, fac­ing tricky op­po­si­tions from 3.30 pm.

Yet to taste de­feat af­ter five match­es, Na­pari­ma Col­lege will be up against Ari­ma North Sec­ondary, known as the 'Di­al Dy­namos', a team with a rich foot­ball lega­cy in the SS­FL that is worth fight­ing for and which will there­fore be giv­ing it 100 per cent as they seek to re­turn to past glo­ry.

Ari­ma's get­ting back to top-flight schools foot­ball and en­ter­tain­ing the best, has al­so been a re­lief and a breath of fresh air for foot­ball fans in the east af­ter two tra­di­tion­al­ly com­pet­i­tive teams, El Do­ra­do East, known as 'The Blue Thun­der' and St Au­gus­tine's 'Green Ma­chine', were rel­e­gat­ed to the Cham­pi­onship Di­vi­sion.

The ‘Di­al Dy­namos’ on­ly loss to date came against San Juan 1-0 at their Ari­ma Velo­drome, but de­spite sur­pris­ing­ly hold­ing their own against some of the big guns, in­clud­ing Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege (San Fer­nan­do), last year's League cham­pi­ons St Bene­dict's Col­lege, St Mary's Col­lege and Trin­i­ty Col­lege East, to­day may be their hard­est test as they com­ing up against an op­po­nent that has won the na­tion­al In­ter­Col ti­tle eight times and the South Zone In­ter­Col crown an amaz­ing 16 times.

Na­pari­ma man­ag­er, Per­cy Sam­lals­ingh, said that in spite of Ari­ma's im­pact on the League so far. his team will con­tin­ue to play their game, "We have been suc­cess­ful in what we are do­ing so far, so there is no need for us to change. You don't change a win­ning for­mu­la. I think we have to fo­cus on con­vert­ing our chances be­cause every­body wants to beat Na­pari­ma."

Mean­while, San Juan North have a date with Fa­ti­ma Col­lege, last year's na­tion­al In­ter­Col win­ners, at home and will be full of con­fi­dence as they are com­ing off a win at the ex­pense of Ari­ma North, cour­tesy of a Lin­dell Sween strike. The Bourge Mala­tresse men have been clin­i­cal to date, beat­ing St Bene­dict's 4-3 at home, Queen's Roy­al Col­lege (QRC) 2-1, Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege and Pleas­antville Sec­ondary.

On the oth­er hand, Fa­ti­ma will be ea­ger to get back to their win­ning ways and to res­ur­rect their as­pi­ra­tions of de­fend­ing the ti­tle as af­ter a per­fect un­beat­en start to the sea­son, they dropped two valu­able points against St Bene­dict's in a goal­less tie in their last match and now sit in third po­si­tion be­hind the two re­main­ing un­de­feat­ed.

Sat­ur­day's match­es (Start time 3.30 pm)

East Mu­cu­rapo vs Ch­agua­nas North, Fa­ti­ma ground

Pleas­antville vs Spey­side, Yolande Pom­pey recre­ation ground

Pre­sen­ta­tion Col­lege vs Bish­op’s High, Man­ny Ramjohn Sta­di­um

San Juan North vs Fa­ti­ma Col­lege, San Juan North Sec­ondary

St Mary’s vs QRC, St Mary’s ground

St Bene­dict’s vs St An­tho­ny’s, Ma­haica Oval, Point Fortin

Trin­i­ty Col­lege East vs Mal­ick, Trin­i­ty East, Trinci­ty

Ari­ma North vs Na­pari­ma, UTT O'Meara ground, Ari­ma