A well-oiled Green Pond High carved out a sensational chapter in their school’s history recording wins over the highly touted Manchester High and Black River, for the first time ever at any level, as the rush for points gathers momentum in the ISSA second round Netball competition.
In a four-game scheduled at the Montego Bay Boys and Girls Club yesterday (Thursday) Green Pond recorded double wins in both the Junior and Senior divisions, with the juniors claiming back-to-back wins, inching closer to a place in the quarter final round.
Playing with poise, speed, agility, controlled aggression and an 80 percent precision shooting inside the circle, Green Pond High created the first major shock of the day, storming to a thrilling 23-19 triumph over Manchester High in the Under-16 clash.
They later completed the famous double wins with an exciting 16-11 triumph over Black River in the Senior match-up.
In the junior game, Green Pond stormed into the lead before being pegged back going into the quarter 7-5 ahead. They then tallied 12 goals between the second and third quarters, the same as the opponents, going into the break down by a slender goal, (13-14).
They however survived two levelled scores and a three minutebad shooting spell to pull off the win, outlasting their challengers 10-5 in the second half.
The double was completed when the senior team in a scrappy display scored seven goals in the first half before another nine in the second with Black River restricted to no more than three for the entire game.
Jacinth Carey was naturally delighted with the outcome and lauded the hard work the players have put in over the summer and even now…” We have been working hard a s a unity, the ladies put in the hard work and we are being rewarded with the results she told the Western Mirror, however we take it one game at a time ad see how far it can take us this time around as we remain confident in what we can achieve.”
As Western schools dominated proceedings, Mount Alvernia High were not to be outdone as they too snared a shocking win, triumphing 19-9 over Black River in a junior clash, the first of the day’s schedule.
The victory was a second on the trot for the ALV team.
A weary ALV operating on fumes, led all the way as they strangled their fast-playing opponents having quarterly scores of 4-2; 5-3; 4-2 and 6-2, having held a narrow 9-5 advantage at the halfway stage of their contest.
In the meantime, Irwin High were the only western school to taste defeat on the day, going down to Manchester High, 5-39.
Noelita Lawrence Ricketts
