WESTERN BUREAU -
CORNWALL College and Munro will seek to qualify for their second final of the schoolboy football season this afternoon when they meet beaten daCosta Cup semi-finalists Clarendon College and Frome Technical respectively in the semi-finals of the Ben Francis Knockout.
Cornwall will travel to Woodside to meet Clarendon College while Munro will face Frome at Black River Centre for the second time in just over a week. Both games will start at 3:00 p.m.
The winners today will meet in the final on Saturday at a venue to be confirmed.
Long-time rivals Cornwall and Munro will meet in the final of the daCosta Cup on December 2.
All four teams will lose players to the national Under-17 team which is in Grenada for the four-team Caribbean Football Union (CFU) qualifying tournament.
Cornwall will be without head coach Dr. Dean Weatherly, goalkeeper Richard McCallum and substitute striker Sean Bucknor. Frome will not have goalkeeper
Andrae Christie. Munro will have to do without defender Copeland Lewis who scored in the daCosta Cup semi-finals while Clarendon College's left full back
Maurice Johnson will also be away.
This should not detract from what should be two more competitive games coming soon on the heels of the daCosta Cup semi-finals that lived up to expectations.
Clarendon and Frome will be seeking to salvage their seasons and avenge their losses while Cornwall and Munro will be hoping to confirm their advantages.
Red-hot Munro, who seem to have recaptured their brilliant early season form, will have the psychological advantage in the game at Black River after having beaten Frome there last Wednesday.
However, Frome is the equal of any team in the competition in midfield but Fabian Blake, Ryland Golaub and Delvano Brown will have to lift their game even a bit higher if they are to outscore Munro.
The Clarendon vs. Cornwall game is the 'glamour' match-up between two rivals and is sure to attract a lot of attention.
By Paul A. Reid
Staff Reporter
