Holmwood on a roll in rural netball

Holmwood Technical, the defending champions in both the senior and junior categories of the ISSA/Digicel rural schools netball competition, registered two convincing wins in the second round, easily posting victories over Montego Bay High and Mushett High on Tuesday.

In matches hosted in Santa Cruz at St Elizabeth Technical (STETHS), Holmwood made light work of Montego Bay High 52-2 in the juniors, before their senior squad completed a demolition job of Mushett High 55-5.

In curtain-raisers at the same venue, Herbert Morrison defeated two Manchester-based teams. In the juniors, the former champions edged Bellefield 16-13 before outscoring Porus 29-10 in the seniors.

In matches hosted at Brooks Park in Mandeville, Manchester High, who were runners-up to Holmwood in the seniors last year, held on to defeat STETHS 25-23. Manchester led 8-4 after the first quarter and opened up decisively to lead 71-6 at the half-time mark. However, rejuvenated play from the STETHS trio of Latavia Williams (GS), Tashica Hibbert (GA) and Trishna Powell (C) created panic among the Manchester team. In fact, STETHS's late rally produced 17 goals during the second half of the match, to Manchester's conversion of eight.

In the juniors, Manchester trailed Black River 3-4 after the first quarter and 6-9 after the second, before the introduction of Trishana Levy at the start of the third saw them rally to 15-12 and finally 20-17.

All-girls school Bishop Gibson High made it a good day for the parish, defeating STETHS 17-14 in the juniors.

In the final game of the afternoon, deCarteret College and Black River produced an exciting 15-15 tie.