St. Augustine Senior Comprehensive dropped their first points of the 2006 season when they narrowly managed to escape with a 1-1 draw against Hillview College on Saturday at the Larry Gomes Stadium. A brilliant Hillview performance saw them score first but fail to hang on to their lead as St. Augustine threw everything they had at them in search of the equalizer.

Arima’s miserable start to the season continued on Saturday where they went down by 4 goals to nil against San Juan Senior Comprehensive at the Larry Gomes Stadium. With the victory San Juan opened their gap at the top of the East Zone by 5 points over second place St. Augustine.

Jason Edwards (St Mary’s College):  Mucurapo 2 – 1 St. Mary’s College

“Despite the defeat, I was very pleased with the team for the manner in which they played against the North Zone big boys. We created a number of opportunities when Mucurapo was ahead 1-0

Malick Senior Comprehensive managed a 1-1 draw in a tough encounter against Queens Royal College on Wednesday at the QRC Grounds. The QRC supporters were vociferous, cheering on their squad in what was supposed to be a Malick home game. Malick had their original home ground, St. Anthony's College grounds unceremoniously withdrawn on the heels of their victory over the Tigers on Monday.

Signal Hill, after a disappointing goalless draw on Saturday against Scarborough, returned to goal scoring ways yesterday on the road as they trounced Roxborough by 9 goals to 2. The result certainly made up for the sluggish start Signal Hill made to the campaign and gave their fans plenty to cheer about. Despite the victory, the game was a costly one for Signal Hill as three of their players, Anderson Taylor, Curtis Moses and Collis Joseph managed to pick up red cards in what was otherwise a comfortable victory.

'Pres' held by Moruga

Newly promoted Presentation College dropped their first points of their league campaign yesterday after being held to a 1-1 draw at the Mannie Ramjohn Stadium by Moruga Composite. Robert Als continued his fine goal scoring form and opened the scoring in the game in the 30th minute of the first half. Two minutes after the break, Javon Forde equalized for Moruga and despite good play from both teams in search of the winner, the game ended up 1-1.

Mucurapo record second straight win

Mucurapo hosted St. Mary's College yesterday and ran out 2-1 winners against the boys in blue and white at Fatima Grounds yesterday. Mucurapo played well and deservingly got the first goal, at which point St. Mary's began applying the pressure and snatched the equalizer.

San Juan makes perfect start

San Juan Senior Comprehensive maintained their fine start to the 2006 League in the East Zone yesterday with a solid performance in their first home game of the season against Toco Composite and ran out winners by two goals to nil. A goal in either half by Neil Mitchell was enough to hand Toco their first defeat of the season.

Trevor Spicer (El Dorado): Eldorado 2 – 2 Hillview College

“El Do was controlling the game and we were well poised to win the game, but a lapse in concentration in defense allowed Hillview to equalize.” Spicer credited Hillview College with playing some good football as well during the game.

East Zone teams better be on their guard as St. Augustine continued their good form by trouncing Arima by 13 goals to nil in the biggest margin of the 2006 SSFL season thus far. Arima was left licking their wounds after suffering a humiliating defeat, on the heels of a four-nil thrashing by Toco on Saturday. Eight first half goals helped St. Augustine to the smashing victory and Daniel Joseph scored five goals in the one sided affair.