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Glenmuir, ‘Garvey’ hunt rural area schoolboy crown
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com
MAY PEN, Clarendon — Finally, it’s decision day. After having to wait an additional two weeks for the final of the ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel daCosta Cup rural area schoolboy competition, defending champions Glenmuir High and first-time finalists Garvey Maceo High are ready to face off for the title at Brancourt. Match time is 3:00 pm.
Coaches of both schools — the veteran Patrick ‘Jackie’ Walters of champions Glenmuir and the up-and-coming Jeffrey Hewitt of Garvey Maceo — agree on at least one point. They believe the layoff may not help their “match fitness”, but it allowed players nursing injuries to recover for the big match-up. And they both are reporting a 100 per cent fitness of players.
Hewitt, who will be gunning for his second title this season after winning the Ben Francis KO, said it would have been touch and go for some of his players if the game had been played last weekend.
Neither coach opted for practice games during the 14-day lay off, instead focusing on maintaining fitness levels and working on set plays in practice.
As far as the coaching goes it will be a match-up of the grizzly veteran against the young upstart.
Walters has won every schoolboy title on offer, including the Olivier Shield with three schools, Camperdown, Clarendon College and Glenmuir, as well as triple champions twice, once with Camperdown and with Clarendon. The 58-year-old also won three Manning Cup and two Walker Cup titles with Camperdown and three daCosta Cup titles with Clarendon College before guiding Glenmuir to their two liens in 2004 and 2006.
Up to this season Garvey Maceo’s best run was to the semi-finals about five years ago.
The teams who will be meeting for the third time this season, qualified for the final with wins in the semi-finals despite being
second in the quarterfinal groups.
Glenmuir beat Cornwall College 3-2 after extra time in one decider, while Garvey Maceo cruised past Rusea’s 3-0.
Garvey Maceo had beaten Glenmuir 1-0 in their first meeting of the season in a Zone I first-round game, but neither coach was willing to go out on a limb to say whether this game played way back on September 27 would impact on today’s contest.
According to Walters, the loss could be “why we are so motivated to play them again”.
He pointed out that football was not played on paper. “It is all psychological, football is not a game that you can follow 1-2-3,” he said, explaining that the team will perform differently on any given day and against certain opponents. “I think they themselves might be more worried than we are, Cornwall beat them and then we beat Cornwall.”
Glenmuir’s last two games resulted in a come-from-behind 2-2 draw against Munro College in the quarterfinals to stay on course in their defence and then the 3- 2 win ov er a plucky Cornwall Colleg.
Walters told Sporting World the two games tested their abilities and will go a far way in helping to boost the conf ide nce of the players.
Asked if the come back pr ove d an ythin g, he said: “Most definiely , it has been an experience for the players and it woul d he lp to make them believe in them selve s even more and they will understand that they can do it no matter the obsacles in the way.”
Walters said he is “expecti ng Ga rve y t o throw their all at us. Our players are looking forward to the game, they are hig hly motivated to play and lthough the wait has been very long and tere is som e anx iety , things are looking pretty good for us”.
While he said they would be keeping an eye on danger man Ashton B ennett, who has scored all of 37 goals so far thi s s eas on, Walters said they “might no t pay stri ct attention to Bennett, ut wheneve r G arvey Maceo have the ball one ha s to try and frustrate them”.
Hewitt said having had the measure of Glenmuir this year with a win and a draw, will help their confidence, but pointed out that to be the champion they must beat Glenmuir once more, which will not be easy.
Hewitt explained their slowing down towards the end of the quarterfinals where they failed to score in the last two games, a 0-2 loss to Cornwall College and a 0-0 draw against Manchester High as the effects of injuries piling up on top of each other. “We only have an 18-man squad and played without four starters against Cornwall, while two more just played on will alone.”
Having said all that, however, he quickly added: “We will be ready on Saturday.”
Bennett has carried the Garvey Maceo attack all season and will do so for the final time in the daCosta Cup today and all eyes will be on him if Garvey Maceo are to fulfill their promise and stay on course for a treble title-winning season.
Daniel Callaghan, their second leading scorer with nine goals, has not scored since the end of the first round and is overdue now, while Andrew Vanzie and Romaine Medley will feature in the attack.
They will, however, come up against a confident Glenmuir team that have several weapons and trying to shut down any one player could open the way for any of three others to take their chances.
John-Ross Doyley was a hat-trick hero in the semi-finals and leads the team, but Ricardo Webb, captain James Thomas and Draion McNain are equally lethal.
Glenmuir’s players, including John-Ross Doyley (# 11) celebrate a goal against Cornwall College at Jarrett Park.
HEWITT … we will be ready on Saturday
WALTERS … I think they themselves might be more worried than we are, Cornwall beat them and then we beat Cornwall
Glenmuir, ‘Garvey’ hunt rural area schoolboy crown
BY PAUL A REID Observer writer reidp@jamaicaobserver.com
MAY PEN, Clarendon — Finally, it’s decision day. After having to wait an additional two weeks for the final of the ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel daCosta Cup rural area schoolboy competition, defending champions Glenmuir High and first-time finalists Garvey Maceo High are ready to face off for the title at Brancourt. Match time is 3:00 pm.
Coaches of both schools — the veteran Patrick ‘Jackie’ Walters of champions Glenmuir and the up-and-coming Jeffrey Hewitt of Garvey Maceo — agree on at least one point. They believe the layoff may not help their “match fitness”, but it allowed players nursing injuries to recover for the big match-up. And they both are reporting a 100 per cent fitness of players.
Hewitt, who will be gunning for his second title this season after winning the Ben Francis KO, said it would have been touch and go for some of his players if the game had been played last weekend.
Neither coach opted for practice games during the 14-day lay off, instead focusing on maintaining fitness levels and working on set plays in practice.
As far as the coaching goes it will be a match-up of the grizzly veteran against the young upstart.
Walters has won every schoolboy title on offer, including the Olivier Shield with three schools, Camperdown, Clarendon College and Glenmuir, as well as triple champions twice, once with Camperdown and with Clarendon. The 58-year-old also won three Manning Cup and two Walker Cup titles with Camperdown and three daCosta Cup titles with Clarendon College before guiding Glenmuir to their two liens in 2004 and 2006.
Up to this season Garvey Maceo’s best run was to the semi-finals about five years ago.
The teams who will be meeting for the third time this season, qualified for the final with wins in the semi-finals despite being
second in the quarterfinal groups.
Glenmuir beat Cornwall College 3-2 after extra time in one decider, while Garvey Maceo cruised past Rusea’s 3-0.
Garvey Maceo had beaten Glenmuir 1-0 in their first meeting of the season in a Zone I first-round game, but neither coach was willing to go out on a limb to say whether this game played way back on September 27 would impact on today’s contest.
According to Walters, the loss could be “why we are so motivated to play them again”.
He pointed out that football was not played on paper. “It is all psychological, football is not a game that you can follow 1-2-3,” he said, explaining that the team will perform differently on any given day and against certain opponents. “I think they themselves might be more worried than we are, Cornwall beat them and then we beat Cornwall.”
Glenmuir’s last two games resulted in a come-from-behind 2-2 draw against Munro College in the quarterfinals to stay on course in their defence and then the 3- 2 win ov er a plucky Cornwall Colleg.
Walters told Sporting World the two games tested their abilities and will go a far way in helping to boost the conf ide nce of the players.
Asked if the come back pr ove d an ythin g, he said: “Most definiely , it has been an experience for the players and it woul d he lp to make them believe in them selve s even more and they will understand that they can do it no matter the obsacles in the way.”
Walters said he is “expecti ng Ga rve y t o throw their all at us. Our players are looking forward to the game, they are hig hly motivated to play and lthough the wait has been very long and tere is som e anx iety , things are looking pretty good for us”.
While he said they would be keeping an eye on danger man Ashton B ennett, who has scored all of 37 goals so far thi s s eas on, Walters said they “might no t pay stri ct attention to Bennett, ut wheneve r G arvey Maceo have the ball one ha s to try and frustrate them”.
Hewitt said having had the measure of Glenmuir this year with a win and a draw, will help their confidence, but pointed out that to be the champion they must beat Glenmuir once more, which will not be easy.
Hewitt explained their slowing down towards the end of the quarterfinals where they failed to score in the last two games, a 0-2 loss to Cornwall College and a 0-0 draw against Manchester High as the effects of injuries piling up on top of each other. “We only have an 18-man squad and played without four starters against Cornwall, while two more just played on will alone.”
Having said all that, however, he quickly added: “We will be ready on Saturday.”
Bennett has carried the Garvey Maceo attack all season and will do so for the final time in the daCosta Cup today and all eyes will be on him if Garvey Maceo are to fulfill their promise and stay on course for a treble title-winning season.
Daniel Callaghan, their second leading scorer with nine goals, has not scored since the end of the first round and is overdue now, while Andrew Vanzie and Romaine Medley will feature in the attack.
They will, however, come up against a confident Glenmuir team that have several weapons and trying to shut down any one player could open the way for any of three others to take their chances.
John-Ross Doyley was a hat-trick hero in the semi-finals and leads the team, but Ricardo Webb, captain James Thomas and Draion McNain are equally lethal.
Glenmuir’s players, including John-Ross Doyley (# 11) celebrate a goal against Cornwall College at Jarrett Park.
HEWITT … we will be ready on Saturday
WALTERS … I think they themselves might be more worried than we are, Cornwall beat them and then we beat Cornwall
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