Milo Schools Football: Big wins for Charlestown and Dolphin on opening day

The Milo Schools Boys Under-18 football tournament started on Saturday and some usual suspects were among the goal-scorers in massive wins at the Ministry of Education ground, Carifesta Avenue.

The biggest win of the day came from Charlestown Secondary, who defeated The Bishops’ High 10-0, led by a helmet-trick of goals from Malcolm Hendricks (27^th, 40^th, 42^nd and 65^th minutes), braces from Tyler Lyle (22^nd and 52^nd) and Rhyme Matthews (50^th and 60^th) and single strikes from Andre Cato (13^th) and Michael Andrew (44^th).

Dolphin Secondary won 4-1 over St. John’s College with goals from Nicholas Tappin (25^th and 60^th), Brian Burnette (29^th) and Gary Burnette (50^th) after David Xavier had placed St John’s in the lead in the 20^th. St. John’s had lost one of their players, Kenan Tyrell via red card in the 70^th minute.

Elijah Sattaur netted in the 56^th and 65^th to deliver a win for West Ruimveldt Secondary over Queen’s College, whose loan goal from Triston Richards in the 54^th minute.

Additionally, Carmel got the better of Bladen Hall with a 6-1 victory, via goals from Leon Sears (8^th and 45^th), Dwain Baptist (20^th and 50^th), Matthew Layne (32^nd) and Nephi Allicock (64^th). Darius Nebbleth netted for the East Coast unit in the 21^st minute.

Meanwhile, Sunday’s four fixtures were rained out, but those matches will be played on Wednesday and Thursday from 17:00h.

Matches will then continue over the weekend in the straight knockout tournament as teams look to book their spot in the July 10 final.