Youngster continues to lead Cornwall front line

CORNWALL COLLEGE’S youngest player, Carlondo Morris, scored his eighth goal of the ISSA/WATA daCosta Cup season to help lead his team to a 4-1 win over Irwin High School in their Zone A match at the Irwin High playfield in St James yesterday.

The 14-year-old forward levelled scores in the fifth minute to make up for Deshawn Talbert’s own goal in the fourth minute before Irwin goalkeeper Jamie Allen also scored an own goal in the 10th.

Kayvon Donaldson would grab another for Cornwall in the 12th minute before Dante Escoffery joined the scoring party in the 44th.

The win keeps Cornwall undefeated and atop the zone on 24 points. Maldon and Green Pond are tied on 15 points, with Maldon in second on goal difference.

“Coach always tell us to finish our chances, and we finished in the first half. We did what we were supposed to do and that is win. It was a good performance by the team, and it feels good scoring in my first season of the competition,” Morris told T he Gleaner.

“My teammates did exceptionally well today. We are thinking positive going into the second round, trying our best to make it to the quarterfinals and finals to win it all,” he added.

Cornwall created better chances and moved the ball more efficiently throughout the game while Irwin tried to counter with defensive soundness. “Preparation, a few mishaps, and discipline played a part in the loss today,” Norman Foster, coach of Irwin High School, said.

“The second goal, the own goal by the ‘keeper, is where they lost confidence and hope. The second half, more effort went into the game, but good win to Cornwall. We have to regroup and come again next year,” said Foster.

Yesterday’s results

Maldon 4-1 St James

Cambridge 1-3 Rusea’s

Ocho Rios 8-1 Fercourt

Anchovy 1-2 Green Island

BB Coke 1-3 STETHS

Glenmuir 3-0 Old Harbour

Little London 0-6 Mannings

Belair 0-1 Manchester

Greenpond 5-2 Herbert Morrison

Irwin 1-4 Cornwall College

Knockalva 0-8 Frome

Central 2-1 Edwin Allen

Claud McKay 0-7 Clarendon College

Grange Hill 0-1 Godfrey Stewart

Muschett 0-13 Cedric Titus

Maggotty 0-0 Munro

Spot Valley 0-0 William Knibb

Newell 0-0 Lacovia

Cross Keys 0-0 deCarteret College

Discovery 0-0 Holland