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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=1 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><SPAN class=TopStory>Eltham, JC in final</SPAN>
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Underdogs Eltham nip Calabar; JC stop Charlie</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>ANDREW HANCEL, Observer staff reporter
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
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</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Calabar's Leo Campbell (right) moves away from Eltham's Jamoy Sibbles (left) and Rayon Whyte (background) during their Walker Cup semi-final game at the National Stadium yesterday. Eltham won 3-2. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Eltham High and Jamaica College will meet in the final of the Corporate Area schoolboy Walker Cup Knock-out competition on Friday after scoring contrasting victories in yesterday's semi-final at the National Stadium.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In the first game of a double-header, the Gregory Allen-coached Eltham shocked defending Manning Cup champions Calabar to advance, before Jamaica College got the better of Charlie Smith 4-2 on penalties, after both teams played to a dour 0-0 tie after regulation and extra-time.
Playing in the 1:00 pm curtain-raiser, Eltham ousted Calabar with a surprise 3-2 win in a game that they dominated throughout.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The underdogs hit Calabar as early as the 13th minute through Dwayne Hunter's strike, before hurting them twice inside the last five minutes of the first half, via Jamoy Sibbles in the 40th minute and Hunter again on the stroke of the referee's whistle.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=199 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Elvis Watson (#16) of Jamaica College comes under pressure from Charlie Smith's Omar Teape (right) and a team-mate during yesterday's Walker Cup semi-final at the National Stadium. JC won 4-2 on penalties. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>"We just put in some offence work and once we did that, we knew that good things will come from it. We realised that we weren't scoring, especially in the last couple of games, so we knew that we had to put in some offensive work knowing that Calabar is a quality team," an elated Allen told the Observer.
"We maybe were looking at scoring two, but we got three in the first half, which was good." he added.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Eltham's dominance over David Hunt's boys, who had only one regular player missing due to national duties, continued on the resumption, even though Marlon Smith and Ramone Palmer brought Calabar back into the game with goals in the 52nd and 55th minutes.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Despite the dominance of the Spanish Town-based Eltham, both teams created scoring opportunities, while Calabar went down to 10 men when Kirk Duckworth was ejected 10 minutes from time.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Allen admitted he had cause for concern in the second half, but credited his unit for playing cohesively.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"At any point in time you're going to have concerns, because I believe the guys drifted a bit, especially in the early part of the second half. Nevertheless our three goals were good enough and I'm extremely happy for that," Allen said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I believe it was an overall performance, because the guys really played according to instructions and I'm really happy for that."
The feature game failed to duplicate the high tempo displayed ealier, as both teams played to a dull draw after 110 minutes of football on an afterno
<SPAN class=Subheadline>Underdogs Eltham nip Calabar; JC stop Charlie</SPAN></TD></TR><TR><TD>ANDREW HANCEL, Observer staff reporter
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=216 align=left border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Calabar's Leo Campbell (right) moves away from Eltham's Jamoy Sibbles (left) and Rayon Whyte (background) during their Walker Cup semi-final game at the National Stadium yesterday. Eltham won 3-2. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>Eltham High and Jamaica College will meet in the final of the Corporate Area schoolboy Walker Cup Knock-out competition on Friday after scoring contrasting victories in yesterday's semi-final at the National Stadium.<P class=StoryText align=justify>In the first game of a double-header, the Gregory Allen-coached Eltham shocked defending Manning Cup champions Calabar to advance, before Jamaica College got the better of Charlie Smith 4-2 on penalties, after both teams played to a dour 0-0 tie after regulation and extra-time. Playing in the 1:00 pm curtain-raiser, Eltham ousted Calabar with a surprise 3-2 win in a game that they dominated throughout.<P class=StoryText align=justify>The underdogs hit Calabar as early as the 13th minute through Dwayne Hunter's strike, before hurting them twice inside the last five minutes of the first half, via Jamoy Sibbles in the 40th minute and Hunter again on the stroke of the referee's whistle.<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=5 width=199 align=right border=0><TBODY><TR><TD>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><SPAN class=Description>Elvis Watson (#16) of Jamaica College comes under pressure from Charlie Smith's Omar Teape (right) and a team-mate during yesterday's Walker Cup semi-final at the National Stadium. JC won 4-2 on penalties. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)</SPAN></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><P class=StoryText align=justify>"We just put in some offence work and once we did that, we knew that good things will come from it. We realised that we weren't scoring, especially in the last couple of games, so we knew that we had to put in some offensive work knowing that Calabar is a quality team," an elated Allen told the Observer. "We maybe were looking at scoring two, but we got three in the first half, which was good." he added.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Eltham's dominance over David Hunt's boys, who had only one regular player missing due to national duties, continued on the resumption, even though Marlon Smith and Ramone Palmer brought Calabar back into the game with goals in the 52nd and 55th minutes.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Despite the dominance of the Spanish Town-based Eltham, both teams created scoring opportunities, while Calabar went down to 10 men when Kirk Duckworth was ejected 10 minutes from time.<P class=StoryText align=justify>Allen admitted he had cause for concern in the second half, but credited his unit for playing cohesively.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"At any point in time you're going to have concerns, because I believe the guys drifted a bit, especially in the early part of the second half. Nevertheless our three goals were good enough and I'm extremely happy for that," Allen said.<P class=StoryText align=justify>"I believe it was an overall performance, because the guys really played according to instructions and I'm really happy for that."
The feature game failed to duplicate the high tempo displayed ealier, as both teams played to a dull draw after 110 minutes of football on an afterno