{"id":3237,"date":"2019-11-26T00:24:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T00:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3237"},"modified":"2019-11-26T00:25:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T00:25:00","slug":"twice-the-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/?p=3237","title":{"rendered":"Twice the champs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><em><strong>Corinaldi lift Insports title<\/strong><\/em><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Noelita Lawrence-Ricketts<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corinaldi hoisted two football trophies on Friday just 45\nminutes apart, including the coveted Insports under-12, which they nailed at\nthe Mount Salem Community Field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Clad in their familiar navy blue and pink jersey, Corinaldi\ngrabbed hold of the crown in a nail-biting 3-2 defeat of neighbours and bitter\nrivals, Barracks Road, in the exhilarating finale watched by a raucous and&nbsp; vocal crowd. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Ricardo Esmie-coached unit, last year&#8217;s beaten\nfinalists, had a double strike from the speedy Ajani Campbell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Campbell scored in the 41<sup>st<\/sup> and 59<sup>th<\/sup>\nminutes after Kemar Richards had opened the scoring after 11 minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barracks Road made the contest an entertaining one, twice\nlevelling the scores through Ronaldeno Richards and Kevin Hawthorne, the first\nof which came from the penalty spot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After an intense opening by both sides, Corinaldi took the\nlead through Richards, whose rifled effort from outside the area whistled by\ntwo defenders before crashing into the corner of the net.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barracks Road, dominating the middle of the park, leveled\nthe scores just before the half when Hawthorne rifled home from the penalty\nspot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The kick from 12 yards out was awarded by official Mary\nLawrence on the stroke of the halftime interval for a handled ball in the area.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the resumption, both teams traded attacks, with Barracks\nRoad striking the crossbar with deadly force. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Corinaldi struck with venom in the 41<sup>st<\/sup>\nminute when Campbell arrived unchallenged at the back post to tap in a\nwell-floated free kick which fell from the grasp of the suspect goalkeeper\nbetween the sticks for the Barracks Road unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barracks Road searched for a second equalizer and it came\nmidway the half as Richards&#8217; homebound effort was hugely deflected into the\ncorner of the net to make the score 2-2. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, Corinaldi rallied and the hardworking Campbell then\nmade the victory certain for them when he latched onto an exquisite 20-yard\npass from female player Kristal Williams, off the wing, to turn the ball into\nthe net to sheer delight from his peers and spectators out in their numbers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their nemesis, Barracks Road, with a never-say-die attitude,\ngot one final chance to level the scores for a third time, but the effort from\ninside the box was charged down by the weary but stubborn Corinaldi\ndefense.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new St. James champions walked away with $60,000, medals\nand trophy, and will now be the parish\u2019s representative in the All-Island\nsection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Barracks Road, for their efforts, bagged $35,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chetwood, meanwhile, finished third after Granville failed\nto show for their contest, collecting $25,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Corinaldi had just hours before, with at least three of the\nsame players, won an Under-10 crown at another competition, before travelling\njust metres across the parish for the Insports showdown with their rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>CORDINATOR EXCITED <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fabian Kelvin, the new Insports coordinator in St. James was\ndelighted with the day\u2019s outcome. \u201cI\u2019m so delighted with how the day\u2019s event\nwent on,\u201d he told the <strong>Western Mirror<\/strong>. \u201cIt was my first on the job and\nI\u2019m happy I was able to pull off such a smooth flowing one,\u201d he said. \u201cThe game\nwas a great spectacle for the city, the fans were great and it was just an\nawesome time out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBoth Barracks Road and the champions Corinaldi gave us a\nreally, really great game, entertaining, of a high quality and thoroughly\ncompetitive\u2026 any of the two could have won,\u201d he further added. \u201cWhat a game it\nwas!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corinaldi lift Insports title Noelita Lawrence-Ricketts Corinaldi hoisted two football trophies on Friday just 45 minutes apart, including the coveted Insports under-12, which they nailed at the Mount Salem Community Field. Clad in their familiar navy blue and pink jersey, Corinaldi grabbed hold of the crown in a nail-biting 3-2 defeat of neighbours and bitter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1650,1351,1153,1647,1649,1648,30],"class_list":["post-3237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-barracks-road","tag-corinaldi-avenue-primary","tag-football","tag-insports","tag-mount-salem-community-field","tag-under-12","tag-western-jamaica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237","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=3237"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3239,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3237\/revisions\/3239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westernmirror.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}