The National Sports Council’s BICO Primary School Football Competition continued its group stage action on Tuesday, delivering a packed slate of lopsided results and standout individual performances across multiple zonal matches across the country.
Leading the day’s high-scoring displays was St Bernard’s Primary, which delivered a dominant 6-0 shutout of Hillaby Turners Hall in the Dennis Leacock Zone, hosted at the Conrad Hunte Playing Field. Trazahri Ifill stole the show for the winners, netting three unanswered goals to complete a first-half hat trick, while teammates Aakash Jones contributed two more goals and Shemari Gittens rounded out the scoring with a late strike to seal the comprehensive blanking. In the zone’s other scheduled fixture, Providence Primary cruised to an equally impressive 8-1 victory over St Joseph Primary, cementing their position near the top of the group standings early in the tournament.
Across the different zones, the Edward Smith/Frank Holder Zone in Speightstown saw only one fixture take place, where Gordon Greenidge Primary secured a solid 3-1 win against Elliott Belgrave Primary to pick up their first three points of the competition. Moving to the Kenville Kab Layne Zone, St George Primary put in a clinical performance to defeat Ellerton Primary by a 5-1 margin, while St Judes Primary earned a narrow 1-0 shutout win over Cuthbert Moore Primary to claim their second consecutive victory.
One of the most eye-catching results of the day came for last year’s tournament runners-up, Arthur Smith Primary, who maintained their perfect unbeaten start to the 2024 edition with a tight 1-0 victory over St Winifred’s Primary in the Ricardo Mickey Gibson Zone. The result sends a clear signal that the 2023 finalists are once again contenders for the national title this year.
Completing the day’s results, Wills Primary pulled off a 2-1 come-from-behind win over St Lawrence Primary, People’s Cathedral earned a 2-0 shutout against Shirley Chisholm Primary, St Gabriel’s Primary rolled to a 6-1 win over St Bartholomew Primary, and Milton Lynch Primary grabbed a late 1-0 win to shut out St Christopher’s Primary. The tournament is set to continue its zonal round play later this week, with more fixtures scheduled across all zones to determine which teams advance to the knockout knockout stage of the national competition.