National youth player Tineisha Cobham put on an inspired performance as she slotted home an impressive eight goals to lead league runner-up Vessigny Secondary to the perfect start in its defence of the title with a 15-0 drubbing of Senior Division leader Point Fortin West, in the BGTT/First Citizens Girls Secondary Schools Football League InterCol South Zone quarterfinal, on Thursday.
After leading 8-0 at the half, Cobham continued to impress alongside Javannah Moreno and national teammate Khadidra Debisette, who completed a hat-trick and a brace, respectively. Aviva Vesprey and Tleasha Webb got the other goals for Vessigny.
The win put Vessigny into the semifinal, where it is scheduled to meet the winner of Fyzabad’s clash with Pleasantville, which was carded to play last evening. Debe, the runaway champions of South was on a bye, and will go up against Point Fortin East in the semifinal. Point Fortin East came up against another Senior Division team, Siparia East, and emerged easy 3-1 winners.
In the North/East playoffs, Providence, which was in the running for the zonal league crown until the last match day took an expected easy win over Senior Division’s Success Laventille. Standout players Chelcy Ralph and Jordan Van
Reeken recorded a hat-trick each, with Kelly-Ann Arrindell adding to the rout with one goal. The comfortable win put Providence into Sunday’s quarterfinal stage, where it will meet Toco Secondary. The other finalist from last year’s National InterCol, Roxborough Secondary, faced early elimination from the competition after suffering an embarrassing 6-0 defeat to Scarborough Secondary.
Results
North/East playoffs
Bishops Anstey 0 vs Tranquility 0
—Bishops won 2-0 on PKs
El Dorado East 3 (Patrice Campbell 2, Kim James) vs Bishops Anstey East 0
San Juan North 2 vs Arima North 1
St Joseph 3 vs Holy Name 1
Toco 4 vs St George’s 0
Providence 7 (Chelcy Ralph 3, Jordan Van Reeken 3, Kelly-Ann Arrindell) vs Success Laventille 0
South quarterfinals
Vessigny 15 (Tineisha Cobham 8, Javannah Moreno 3, Khadidra Debisette 2, Aviva Vesprey, Tleasha Webb) vs Princes Town West 0
Point Fortin East 3 vs Siparia East 1
Tobago quarterfinals
Scarborough 6 vs Roxborough 0
Bishops 5 vs Goodwood 0
Mason Hall 2 vs Speyside 2
-Mason Hall won on PKs
Fixtures [Sunday]
North East quarterfinals
St Francois vs El Dorado East, President’s Ground
San Juan North vs St Joseph’s, San Juan
Toco Secondary vs Providence, Toco
South Semifinals
Vessigny vs Fyzabad/Pleasantville
Debe vs Point Fortin East, Debe Ground
Tobago Semifinals
Signal Hill vs Scarborough, Signal Hill
Bishop’s vs Mason Hall, Bishop’s
Tuesday
North/East quarterfinal
St Augustine vs Bishops Anstey North, St Augustine, 3.45 pm