St. Jago High, Eltham High, STATHS and Wolmer’s Boys all advanced to the quarterfinals of the Walker Cup knockout tournament after round one wins on Thursday.
St. Jago booked their spot in the last eight after a 3-2 win over Calabar High at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex.
St. Jago took an early lead before Calabar equalized in the 45th minute through Kevaun Campbell. St. Jago retook the lead five minutes into the second half through Richardo Lewis before Seon Cato made it 3-1 in the 74th minute.
Calabar got a consolation goal through Sheldon Pusey eight minutes from full time but it wasn’t enough.
In the second game of the double header at the Anthony Spaulding Sports Complex, Wolmer’s Boys got the better of St. George’s College 2-1.
Elsewhere, STATHS got a comfortable 3-0 win over Charlie Smith at Calabar to advance while Eltham beat Jonathan Grant 3-1 at the Spanish Town Prison Oval to make it through.
The four winners on Thursday will now take on the four teams that fail to advance to the semi-finals in the Manning Cup in the Walker Cup quarter-finals on November 21.
Eltham High remained perfect so far in this season’s ISSA/Digicel Manning Cup with a 2-0 win over Hydel High in their Zone A clash at Homestead on Tuesday.
Eltham have now won all eight of their games to have a perfect 24 points in the preliminary phase while Hydel are also already through with 18 points from their eight games.
In Zone B action, Jonathan Grant kept their hopes of advancing alive with a 2-0 away win over Waterford to move to 18 points from nine games, equal with Charlie Smith, who have played all their games, in second.
Jonathan Grant will advance with a win over Gaynstead High in their final game on Thursday.
The day’s other game saw Excelsior High defeat Bridgeport High 5-0 at Dunbeholden in Zone F.
An inspirational super sub-performance by Sean-John Curchar propelled last year’s beaten finalists Hydel High to a 4-0 win over Clan Carthy High in ISSA/Manning Cup action at the Homestead Community Centre on Wednesday.
Curchar provided a goal and an assist as Hydel secured their second win in as many games this season on their quest to claim a maiden Manning Cup title.
Despite being two from two and yet to concede a goal, Hydel are currently second in Zone A behind Eltham High who improved their record to three wins from three with a 5-0 win over Dunoon Technical.
Eltham have now scored 20 goals in three games and have also yet to concede.
St. Andrew Technical High School defeated Camperdown 2-0 and moved to seven points as they continue to lead the pack for Zone D.
Vauxhall High again showed resilience as they held Calabar High to a goalless draw and remained second after yet another stellar home performance.
Elsewhere, STATHS moved to the top of Zone D with a 2-0 win over Camperdown at Boys’ Town while Calabar High and Vauxhall played out a 0-0 draw at Vauxhall.
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