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UWI are Claro KSAFA Major League champs
André Bernal, leading scorer for UWI with 12 goals.
The University of the West Indies (UWI) captured the Claro Kingston and St Andrew Football Association (KSAFA) Major League title after brushing aside Brown's Town 3-0 at Vauxhall on Saturday.
Andre Bernal netted twice in the 54th and 72nd minutes alongside Oneil Fairweather's 32nd minute opener to secure UWI's first Major League title.
UWI finished on 45 points, the same as Rockfort, who edged Molynes United 1-0, but with a better head-to-head record.
Rockort had defeated UWI 3-1 in their first-round outing but UWI won the return fixture 3-0 with that one goal difference proving critical. Twaine Winter scored the all-important goal for Rockfort in the 79th minute as they joined UWI as the two promoted teams to the Claro Super League for next season.
good whipping
At Winchester Park, Central Kingston left nothing for granted whipping Greenwich Town 6-1 to secure third place on 44 points - just one behind the top two teams. Kemal Malcolm netted a three timer in the 5th, 23rd and 76th minutes pushing his season tally to four. Jyvani Hayles (25th), Kenneth Ellis (29th) and Shamari Hibbert (78th) completed the rout.
The competition's leading goal scorer Ricardo Munroe notched his table-topping 17th goal of the season in the 55th minute for Greenwich Town. They finished sixth on 31 points, just one point behind Brown's Town with 32 points.
Police National came from behind and clipped Whitfield Town 2-1 at the Constant Spring Sports Complex and ended fourth with 43 points.
Christopher Weston gave Whit-field Town a 61st minute advantage before Marlon Swaby pulled the lawmen level in the 71st minute. Damion Virgo then found the winner 10 minutes from time. Whitfield Town with 28 points finished seventh two ahead of Molynes United on 26 points.
Relegated Swallowfield registered only their second win of the season from 22 games beating Liguanea United 3-1 at the Stadium East Field. Howard Tracey gave Swallowfield an early third-minute lead before Liguanea's Kevin Campbell levelled the score in the 53rd minute.
Dionne Whittingham put Swallowfield 2-1 in the 89th minute before Errol Collins completed the scoring in injury time.
Swallowfield finished with just eight points after losing 18 of their 22 games while Liguanea finished ninth on 24 points.
Relegated Olympic Gardens battled to a 2-2 draw with Cooreville Gardens to finish second from bottom on 15 points and joined last-placed Swallowfield in the Syd Bartlett League for next season. Cooreville finished 10th on 19 points.
Two goals in two minutes by Hochoy Pryce and Fabian Francis in the 67th and 79th minutes respectively propelled Olympic Gardens from behind to a 2-1 lead. Dujon Hylton had given Cooreville a 47th minute lead.
equalising goal
But with seven minutes remaining in normal time, Christopher Smith popped up with an equalising goal in the 83rd minute for a share of the points.
In what was an intriguing league to the final round, all the top-four title contenders held their nerves and secured wins hence the order was not changed on the final day.
Professor Gordon Shirley (left), pro-vice-chancellor and principal of the University of the West Indies, Davin Messam (second left), merchandising and events officer of Claro, and Rudolph Speid (right), president of KSAFA, pose with the jubilant members of the UWI Major League squad. - Contributed photos
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Whither local inter-collegiate sports?
From the Sport Desk
BY HARTLEY ANDERSON
Sunday, April 18, 2010
AS I watched an enthralling cricket match between CASE and The Mico University College last week, the question that incessantly bothered my mind was, why hasn't inter-collegiate sport taken off in the mould of its high school counterpart here in Jamaica?
For, while a growing number of books are replete with the heroics of Jamaican high school legends ranging from Norman Manley and Herb McKenley to Veronica Campbell Brown and Usain Bolt, mention of the college exploits of the majority of our sports stars has perennially been confined to the ambits of the NCAA and other such sporting organisations firmly rooted in the United States.
In fact, whereas universities and colleges in the US benefit immensely from bumper stickers and a slew of other public relations paraphernalia lauding the sporting achievements of their institutions not to mention heated debates on and off the airwaves -- that seems to be the hallowed and exclusive domain of Jamaica's traditional high schools.
As a testimony to this, ties of various colours are on proud display inside motor vehicles, notwithstanding the fact that many a diehard alumni would have said goodbye to their beloved schools decades earlier.
For whatever reasons, however, frenetic sporting sentiments have never been transferred to our tertiary institutions, which ironically churn out graduates of the highest calibre who admirably match-up in the global marketplace.
The fact is that the arbitrary individual in Jamaica does not know the colours, let alone the school motto, of our most eminent tertiary institutions, as opposed to all 200-odd teams that compete at Boys and Girls Champs.
This scenario, though disappointing, should not be surprising since Jamaicans have a penchant for doing things in reverse order -- as obtained when, without even a flicker of a professional football league, the Reggae Boyz qualified for the FIFA World Cup Finals back in 1998.
For, notwithstanding the importance of emphasising the requisite skills and habits at a tender age, a logical progression for sports-oriented countries is to treat college competition as the crucial final step ahead of entry into the professional arena.
In contrast, college sports in this country is often treated as an unnecessary, and even bothersome, step in the developmental process, with most local sporting bodies leapfrogging this step and instead, moving from the high school to the professional level.
A consequence of this anomaly is that special talents like Walter Boyd and Onandi Lowe are never properly harnessed, yet we wonder why these individuals are always at odds with authority, are woefully bereft of the requisite social skills like dealing with the media, and spur such aggressive and even hateful debates among members of the public.
An embarrassing reality regarding local intercollegiate sports is that it lags behind even its prep school counterpart in popularity and interest and sadly, perpetually struggles to attract sponsors and fans to its mainly low-keyed events.
A fundamental reason for this evident privileging of high school over inter-collegiate sport is that the former is steeped in over a century of rich tradition, while the latter is a comparative fledgling in a society in which the very concept of higher level education is still a novelty.
At this juncture, one should remember that until a number of tertiary institutions came into existence in the 1980s -- like GC Foster and the community colleges -- there would have only been UWI, UTech (formerly CAST), the defunct Jamaica School of Agriculture (JSA) and a handful of teachers colleges competing in intercollegiate competitions.
And yet, we have seen some progress from the dark days when the concept of tertiary education was not only unheard of, but was a drastic shift from the undesirable position where attending a high school was not only a great privilege, but the ultimate for the vast majority of Jamaicans as well.
This is underscored by the fact that many secondary institutions were, and still are, called colleges -- Munro, St George's, JC and Cornwall are cases in point.
Despite the unfavourable situation in local intercollegiate sports, it is to noted that UTech Ja is moving to spur a change in outlook and in this regard, have launched their Classic series which to date includes a Twenty/20 cricket festival and the spiralling UTech Track and Field Classic which was staged at the National Stadium yesterday.
Further, the UWI has come on board with an athletic meet of its own called the UWI Invitational, while GC Foster has likwise chipped in with a Classic meet as well.
It is a fervent wish that these innovations will trigger an epidemic among local intercollegiate sports and that in time to come, the visibility and corporate support that is accorded high school sports will also decorate the landscape of intercollegiate sports.
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Tertiary giants launch 'Clash of the Titans'
BY HOWARD WALKER Observer staff reporter walkerh@jamaicaobserver.com
Thursday, September 09, 2010
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FORGET the famous Oxford versus Cambridge University boat race; welcome the inaugural University of the West Indies (UWI)/University of Technology (UTECH) Sports Championship -- the "Clash of the Titans" -- set for September 18.
The one-day event was officially launched at the Mona Campus of the UWI yesterday and will match the UWI Pelicans against the UTECH Knights in five sporting disciplines -- football, cricket, basketball, netball and volleyball.
UWI’s campus registrar, Dr Camille Bell-Hutchinson (second right), and Dianne Mitchell, vice-president - registrar, UTech, admire the UWI/UTech Sports Championship trophy at Mona yesterday. They are flanked by UTech’s union president Temard Butterfield (left) and Jovaughn Neil, UWI’s guild president. (Photo: Aston Spaulding)
The Oxford versus Cambridge event began in 1829 and has become a major international sporting occasion, drawing millions of viewers from around the world, with up to 250,000 spectators crowding the banks of the River Thames from Putney to Mortlake to witness the action.
This UWI/UTECH showdown might not garner that following, but it is aimed at fostering greater integration between the two institutions, creating an avenue through which healthy rivalry can be built, and developing the individual school spirits.
UWI's campus registrar, Dr Camille Bell-Hutchinson, said this is just another example of collegiality and collaboration between UWI and UTECH.
"We are family. We are caught together in so many different activities. Even though we may be competitors in one sense, we actually work so well together in some many areas," Bell-Hutchinson pointed out.
Dianne Mitchell, UTECH's vice-president - registrar, said the competitions between the Pelican and the Knights is another collaborate venture by the university families.
"I have to commend the organisers as it will provide for the students and staff to meet in a relaxed atmosphere of friendly rivalry," said Mitchell.
Meanwhile, Anthony Davis, director of sports at UTECH, bemoaned the fact that university sport is always overlooked whenever athletes achieve international fame.
"We need to reverse this role. When we report on sports we always identify the high school that the student went to. They could be on the podium collecting an Olympic medal and you would hear so and so from Holmwood, but they are students at UTECH, they are students at UWI," said Davis.
"We are not recognised. We want to raise the awareness of what university sport is all about. This event, we hope, will lead us towards that," he added.
The one-day event, to be staged at the UWI Bowl on September 18, will also see a "tent city" displaying various wares from corporate Jamaica.
The event, which is free of cost, is billed as a combination of sports, food and entertainment.
UWI's campus registrar, Dr Camille Bell-Hutchinson (second right), and Dianne Mitchell, vice-president - registrar, UTECH, admire the UWI/UTECH Sports Championship trophy at Mona yesterday. They are flanked by UTECH's union president Temard Butterfield (left) and Jovaughn Neil, UWI's guild president. (Photo: Aston Spaulding)
And there is the message. "We need to reverse this role. When we report on sports we always identify the high school that the student went to. They could be on the podium collecting an Olympic medal and you would hear so and so from Holmwood, but they are students at UTECH, they are students at UWI," said Davis.
"We are not recognised. We want to raise the awareness of what university sport is all about. This event, we hope, will lead us towards that," he added.
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KSAFA Super League Competition 2010/2011 Date: Oct 2 2010 - 3:30pm The UWI male footballers will be play their first match in the KSAFA Super League Competition against Cavaliers S.C. The match will be held on October 2, 2010 at UWI MONA BOWL at 3:30pm.
The UWI football team will be playing in the KSAFA Super League, Jackie Bell KO and Intercollegiate Cup in 2010.
They have a tentative 30 match schedule.
The Super League will be a real Challenge.. Santos, Cavaliers and Seba are on the rise. If they can make it to the DPL that would be Major... Would be refreshing to see a player from the UWI getting signed by an MLS or European Club or UWI Rep Jamaica in the Concacaf Champions League.
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Newcomers UWI hold Cavalier in Super League
Sunday, October 03, 2010
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ONLY three of the scheduled six matches were completed on the opening day of the Claro/KSAFA Super League as the incliment weather continue to wreak hovoc on local football leagues yesterday.
Champions Cavalier had to come from behind to hold newcomers UWI to a 2-2 draw; Constant Spring outscored Mountain View 4-3 in a high-scoring match, while Duhaney Park and August Town battled to a 1-1 draw. UWI's Kemar Douglas (left) rides a tackle from Cavalier's Akeeli Martin during their opening-round Claro/KSAFA Super League game at the UWI Bowl yesterday. The game ended 2-2. (Photo: Garfield Robinson)
At UWI Bowl, a Michael Stone's 13th-minute own-goal gave the hosts the lead and Donovan Hibbert made it 2-0 six minutes before the break.
However, the champions rallied in the second half with a 74th-minute goal from former Arnett and Tivoli Gardens midfielder Horace Sharpe before Jermaine Grey equalised nine minutes from time.
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UWI Inches closer to KSAFA Super League Leaders!!!
The UWI Pelican Football Team inches closer to the 1st place and 2nd place holders in the KSAFA Super League Football Competiton, after emerging victors in their match up against Rae Town FC. The win now puts the UWI Team on 34 points, 4 away from 1st place holders Cavaliers.
I really hope they do well enough to get promoted to the dpl...I must ask this first however, is this allowed considering that they are a tertiary institution?
