KC wants title to kick off 100-year anniversary

FOLLOWING THEIR 2-0 win over dethroned champions Mona High School on Friday in the ISSA Manning Cup, Kingston College’s (KC) head coach Vassell Reynolds said the team is aiming to kickstart their school’s 100-year anniversary celebrations with a schoolboy football title.

KC scored a major win in their title-contending campaign when they eliminated the defending champions to book a spot in the final four of the urban schoolboy football competition.

By virtue of qualifying for the Manning Cup semifinals, KC have also booked their spot as one of the four urban teams in the ISSA Champions Cup competition.

Now six games away from a potential schoolboy treble, Reynolds is aiming to adorn the school’s centennial celebrations with a title.

“It would be a good accolade to start the celebrations for the school as it is their 100-year anniversary next year,” he affirmed.

KC endured a topsy-turvy quarter-final round, beginning with an impressive attacking display to stun Tivoli Gardens High 5-0, before crashing to a 3-0 defeat at the hands of fierce rivals Jamaica College before recovering with a spirited 2-0 win over Mona High.

Following their qualification to the semifinals, Reynolds said the team had achieved the first of their objectives set before the start of the season.

Their focus now will be on securing a spot in both the Manning Cup and Champions Cup finals.

“We are a team that before the season, we would have set our long-term and our short-term objectives. Our short-term was to accomplish what we would have accomplished last year when we went to the semi-finals and we would have achieved that now,” Reynolds explained.

He added, “The long-term objective is to go one step better than we did last year and that will be to qualify for at least one of the finals so that is our focus now.”

KC will be making their eighth straight appearance in the Manning Cup semifinals, a span in which they claimed two Manning Cup titles and a single Olivier Shield win.

The next assignment on Reynolds’ agenda will be the Champions Cup first round set to kick off on November 22 and 23.

The draw for the competition is slated for Tuesday.