Jamaica Gleaner
Published: Saturday | November 21, 2009
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Battle on for daCosta semis berths
Adrian Frater, News Editor

Western Bureau:

With runaway Group Two leaders Garvey Maceo virtually assured of their place in the semi-finals, the battle for the other three slots should take centre stage when the 2009 ISSA/Pepsi/Digicel daCosta Cup continues today with the final round of quarter-final games, all starting at 3 p.m.

Having taken maximum six points from their two previous outings against Manchester High and Marcus Garvey Technical, Garvey Maceo just need to avoid defeat against last year's beaten finalists Spaldings in their game at Kirkvine to emerge as the group winners. In fact, even with a 1-0 loss they could still win the group.

"Since we were reinstated into the inter-zone round, we have been doing extremely well and we are aiming to keep it that way," said Jeffrey Hewitt, the coach of the Garvey Maceo team.

In Group One, joint leaders, champions St James High and Ben Francis KO kingpins Glenmuir High, could make things easy for themselves by avoiding defeat in their games against out-of-contention Frome Technical and a resurgent St Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS). However, any hiccup by either team could land them in trouble.

Today's games

Group One

St James vs Frome at Jarrett Park

STETHS vs Glenmuir at STETHS

Group Two

Spaldings vs Garvey Maceo at Kirkvine

Marcus Garvey vs Manchester at Spanish Town Prison Oval

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