THE ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup quarter-finals kick off today and Veron Peterkin, coach of Ocho Rios High, says his team will be aiming to get all three points when they travel to St Elizabeth to face Munro College. In the only quarter-final match...
MUNRO COLLEGE’S leading goal scorer Antwone Smith is not satisfied with the spectacular season he is having because he is focused on trying to help lead his team to an ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup title. The 18-year-old has scored 16 times this season but...
WITH A tropical storm warning forcing organisers of the Inter-Secondary Schools Sports Association (ISSA) to postpone both Manning and daCosta Cup quarter-final openers, coaches have had mixed feelings about what the delays mean. Cleighton Stephens...
Four schools are set to book quarter-final spots in the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup today after the playing of eight round-of-16 games across the island. An interesting matchup looms at Drax Hall in St Ann with Ocho Rios High, Group 2 runners-up face...
Munro College have their sights firmly set on ending a 60-year daCosta Cup drought in this year’s ISSA/WATA competition. First-year coach Kemar Ricketts told The Gleaner that this is the main objective in the 2024 season for the 168-year-old...
A BRACE from Antwone Smith, inclusive of a dramatic late goal, ensured that there were no hiccups for Munro College on their way to the quarterfinals of ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup competition when they defeated defending champions Clarendon College 2-1...
Monday evening’s intimate chocolate and rum pairing event at Breathless Montego Bay Resort and Spa in St James had guests trying a special treat: jerk seasoning chocolate, one of four rich and unique flavours showcased by Pure Chocolate Jamaica....
A HAT-TRICK from Justin McPherson helped lead St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) to a 6-1 victory over Alphansus Davis High School in an ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup round-of-16 match at the St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS) Sports...
WHEN THE ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup round of 16 continues today, one of the interesting matchups will be between Gavey Maceo and Kemps Hill. The 3 p.m. encounter between Garvey Maceo, the hosts and runners-up in the second round in Group 8, and Kemps...
ST JAMES has heeded the calls for increased focus on grassroots football with the Hosanna Preparatory School 25th Anniversary Under-12 Co-Ed Football Competition. The competition, launched last Thursday at Hosanna’s playfield, has its coordinator,...
Montego Bay United’s (MBU) coach Rodolfo Zapata has hailed his team’s gritty performance following their 0-0 draw against Portmore United in the Jamaica Premier League yesterday. It was the second consecutive draw for MBU, who are atop the table...
THE SHOWERS OF RAIN could not dampen the spirit of Montegonians who came out in their numbers for yesterday’s Kiwanis Club of Providence, Montego Bay Breast Cancer Awareness 5K Walk/Run and Wheelchair. The 15th staging of the 5K/Run/Walk and...
The round of 16 of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup kicks off today with eight matches. Frome Technical High, who have been cruising through the rounds undefeated, will face defending champions Clarendon College at the Llandilo Sports Complex in...
Mount Pleasant Academy’s coach, Theodore ‘Tappa’ Whitmore, has expressed his disappointment after yesterday’s 0-0 draw against Waterhouse FC in the Jamaica Premier League. It was the third consecutive draw for Mount Pleasant, and Whitmore was...
NEWLY RE-ELECTED President of the Westmoreland Cricket Association, Deltonio Williams, says his administration is ready to make more improvements and lift the popularity of the sport in the parish. Williams, who was not opposed at the annual...
ST ELIZABETH Technical High School (STETHS) ensured there were no hiccups on their way to the next round of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup football competition when they ended The Manning’s School’s hopes of doing the same with a 3-0 victory at The...
IT’S WIN or go home for some teams when the second round of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup resumes today with nine matches across the island. In the west, many-time champions Cornwall College will face an already eliminated Spot Valley, who are trying...
MALDON HIGH School’s first foray into the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup second round ended with a point yesterday after their game with Brown’s Town in Group 4 ended 1-1. While the two are off the mark, they will now have to watch today’s game between...
MALDON HIGH School coach Dillan Thelwell is already happy, even without playing a game of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup second round. Thelwell’s joy comes from having created history at Maldon, the side getting out of the first round for the first...
Damion Nelson, coach of Spot Valley High, has identified players’ discipline and cultural changes made at the school in the past two years as the main reasons why the school has advanced to the second round of the WATA/ISSA daCoata Cup. Spot Valley...
Western Bureau: Already facing a miserable existence, being blind and depending on the kindness of others to survive, 56-year-old Orville ‘Blacka’ Cameron of Water Lane in Montego Bay, St James, is now poised to face even more misery as his...
FROME TECHNICAL need just three points to cement a place in the second round of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup and they will be seeking to secure them when they face Zone B rivals Rusea’s in a mega clash at the Collin Miller Sports Complex in Lucea...
MONTEGO BAY United Football Club’s (MBU) coach, Rodolfo Zapata, is liking the way his team is executing the tactical awareness he desires from them if they are to be a force to be reckoned with in this year’s Jamaica Premier League. On Monday night...
MOUNT PLEASANT Football Academy came away with an impressive 4-0 win over newcomers Racing United during their Jamaica Premier League (JPL) football match at the Montego Bay Sports Complex yesterday. Overwhelming favourites Mount Pleasant collected...
PAULA PINNOCK, managing director of the Youth Football League (YFL) Junior Cup Under-11 competition, said the Kingston and St Andrew regions level of development is far more advanced than other regions. She expressed this during the second week of...
