{"id":3109,"date":"2019-10-07T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T21:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2019-10-07T21:01:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T21:01:02","slug":"muschett-host-knibb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3109","title":{"rendered":"Muschett host Knibb"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>St. James High hold off Green Pond<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Noelita Lawrence-Ricketts <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Play in the Inter Secondary Schools\nAssociation (ISSA) Rural Area Under-16 and 19 Netball Competition continues\ntomorrow, Tuesday, October 8, with Zone \u2018B\u2019 set to come alive with the big\nTrewlany derby set to unfold at the home of Muschett High.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bitter parish\nrivals will be in search of their first win of the season when they take the\ncourt for the blast of the opening whistle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The slow-starting\nMuschett will be gunning for a first win in three starts, and will be gunning\nto halt a string of two successive defeats while their rivals, William Knibb,\nare down to open their account in what will be their first time on court this\ncampaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The last round of\ngames before the start of the weekend provided loads of excitement for those on\nhand to witness the showdown involving St. James High, and the new western\npowerhouse Green Pond High in a junior showdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The battle, which\nsaw both teams walking away sharing the spoils in an enthralling 14-14 tie,\ntook place at the Montego Bay Cricket Club on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an absorbing\nmatch-up officiated by veteran and well-rated officials, Gina Haughton and\nOmroy Kerr, both Green Pond, who started fast, and their hosts shared eight\ngoals down the middle as the opening 10 minutes ended 4-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St. James, with a\nsterling defensive display and the Green Pond shooters tottering somewhat,\nsurged to a slight lead going into the halftime break, surging for five goals\nto four by their opponents as they went into the break with a narrow one-goal\nadvantage, holding a 10-9 lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the resumption,\nboth teams struggled in the shooting third and failed to maintain possession of\nthe ball, with both kept of the score sheet for the opening five minutes,\ndespite getting good looks at the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clad in their\nfamiliar green and yellow outfit, Green Pond High, who were far from their\nusual slickpassing self, had a spell of ball possession under the net but\nfailed to convert on any of the nine attempts at goal, most coming directly\nfrom underneath and very close range.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Jacinth Carey-coached\nGreen Pond regained their composure towards the close of the penultimate\nquarter, rallying to sink five goals to St. James\u2019 three to take a slender\n13-12 lead heading into the fourth and final quarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the game on an\nedge and both teams faltering, struggling to maintain their form and\npossession, St. James High utilized two of their five looks at the net to force\ntheir visitors on the back foot and snatch the draw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">St. James High, who\nsaw their inspirational goal defense suffer a knee injury and was forced off\nthe court bleeding, tottered at the back in the closing stages but managed to\ndrop in two goals to Green Pond High\u2019s one as they claimed a first point from\ntheir opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green Pond had the\nchance to steal the win, but they were stopped by sterling defensive display by\nthe St. James High team and poor finishing from their shooters who, at times,\nappeared indecisive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green Pond High\u2019s\ncoach, Carey, was left incensed at the blast of the final whistle, saying some\nnon-calls late on affected her team and cost them the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Green Pond will be\nback in action on October 9 when they host Irwin while St. James High take on\nCambridge on Friday, October 11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other games,\nformer western powerhouse, Herbert Morrison Technical High (HMTHS), rushed past\nMuschett 20-6 in an unimpressive display and Cambridge after a heavy defeat,\nreturned in emphatic fashion, bombarding hapless Hopewell 45-1, the latter\nscoring their first goal of the competition.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. James High hold off Green Pond Noelita Lawrence-Ricketts Play in the Inter Secondary Schools Association (ISSA) Rural Area Under-16 and 19 Netball Competition continues tomorrow, Tuesday, October 8, with Zone \u2018B\u2019 set to come alive with the big Trewlany derby set to unfold at the home of Muschett High. The bitter parish rivals will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1599,1598,1597,452,1601,1600,50,436,437,30],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-inter-secondary-schools-association","tag-knibb","tag-muschett","tag-netball","tag-netball-competition","tag-rural-area","tag-sports","tag-under-16","tag-under-19","tag-western-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}